spacecraft Icarus II
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Spacecraft Icarus II is the fictional solar-bomb delivery vessel at the center of the 2007 science fiction film "Sunshine," tasked with reigniting a dying Sun.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Icarus 2 | 1 |
| Icarus II mission | 1 |
| spacecraft Icarus II canonical | 1 |
| spaceship Icarus II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350912 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: spacecraft Icarus II Context triple: [Sunshine, setting, spacecraft Icarus II]
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A.
Cygnus spacecraft
The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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B.
Hermes spacecraft
The Hermes spacecraft is the advanced interplanetary vessel in Andy Weir’s novel and its film adaptation "The Martian," used by NASA’s Ares crew for travel between Earth and Mars.
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C.
Nomad space probe
The Nomad space probe is a fictional, highly advanced robotic spacecraft from the Star Trek universe that becomes a powerful and dangerous hybrid entity after merging with an alien probe.
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D.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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E.
ATV spacecraft
The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: spacecraft Icarus II Target entity description: Spacecraft Icarus II is the fictional solar-bomb delivery vessel at the center of the 2007 science fiction film "Sunshine," tasked with reigniting a dying Sun.
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A.
Cygnus spacecraft
The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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B.
Hermes spacecraft
The Hermes spacecraft is the advanced interplanetary vessel in Andy Weir’s novel and its film adaptation "The Martian," used by NASA’s Ares crew for travel between Earth and Mars.
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C.
Nomad space probe
The Nomad space probe is a fictional, highly advanced robotic spacecraft from the Star Trek universe that becomes a powerful and dangerous hybrid entity after merging with an alien probe.
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D.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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E.
ATV spacecraft
The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional spacecraft
ⓘ
spacecraft in film ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Sunshine ⓘ |
| belongsToFranchise | Sunshine (film) universe ⓘ |
| cargoType | stellar bomb payload ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewSize | 8 ⓘ |
| designedByInUniverse | international coalition ⓘ |
| directorOfFilm | Danny Boyle ⓘ |
| featuredInFilm | Sunshine ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | does not exist in reality ⓘ |
| filmProductionDesignBy | Mark Tildesley ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Icarus 2
ⓘ
linked to:
spacecraft Icarus II
|
| hasComponent |
computer core
ⓘ
crew living quarters ⓘ flight deck ⓘ greenhouse ⓘ massive heat shield ⓘ observation deck ⓘ stellar bomb ⓘ |
| hasOnboardAI | ICARUS computer ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| mission | deliver a stellar bomb into the Sun ⓘ |
| missionObjective | reignite the dying Sun ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Icarus from Greek mythology
ⓘ
linked to:
Icarus
|
| narrativeFunction | vehicle for humanity’s last attempt to save Earth ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary setting for most of the film Sunshine ⓘ |
| notableCrewMember |
Cassie
ⓘ
Corazon ⓘ Harvey ⓘ Kaneda ⓘ Mace ⓘ Robert Capa ⓘ Searle ⓘ Trey ⓘ |
| operatesIn | near-future setting ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Icarus I
ⓘ
linked to:
Icarus
|
| primaryDestination |
the Sun
ⓘ
linked to:
Sun
|
| propulsionType | fictional advanced spacecraft propulsion ⓘ |
| riskFactor | one-way mission ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfFilm | Alex Garland ⓘ |
| threatEnvironment | extreme solar radiation ⓘ |
| visualEffectsCompany | Moving Picture Company ⓘ |
| yearOfFilmRelease | 2007 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: spacecraft Icarus II Description of subject: Spacecraft Icarus II is the fictional solar-bomb delivery vessel at the center of the 2007 science fiction film "Sunshine," tasked with reigniting a dying Sun.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
spacecraft Icarus II
linked to: spacecraft Icarus II
linked to: spacecraft Icarus II
linked to: spacecraft Icarus II