Man the Explorer
E391064
Man the Explorer was a themed exhibition area at Montreal’s Man and His World fair that focused on humanity’s drive to discover and understand the world and beyond.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Man the Explorer canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3824315 — 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: Man the Explorer Context triple: [Man and His World, subtheme, Man the Explorer]
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A.
Explorers
Explorers is the nickname for the men's basketball team representing La Salle University in NCAA Division I competition.
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B.
The Impossible Voyage
The Impossible Voyage is a 1904 French silent fantasy film directed by Georges Méliès, renowned for its pioneering special effects and imaginative depiction of a fantastical journey.
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C.
Kon-Tiki (book)
Kon-Tiki is Thor Heyerdahl’s classic 1948 nonfiction account of his experimental raft voyage across the Pacific Ocean to support his theories about Polynesian migration.
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D.
Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent
"Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent" is a contemporary novel by Terézia Mora that explores themes of alienation, globalization, and digital-age work through the life of an IT specialist.
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E.
The American Adventure
The American Adventure is a patriotic pavilion and audio-animatronic stage show at EPCOT in Walt Disney World that chronicles key moments in United States history.
- 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: Man the Explorer Target entity description: Man the Explorer was a themed exhibition area at Montreal’s Man and His World fair that focused on humanity’s drive to discover and understand the world and beyond.
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A.
Explorers
Explorers is the nickname for the men's basketball team representing La Salle University in NCAA Division I competition.
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B.
The Impossible Voyage
The Impossible Voyage is a 1904 French silent fantasy film directed by Georges Méliès, renowned for its pioneering special effects and imaginative depiction of a fantastical journey.
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C.
Kon-Tiki (book)
Kon-Tiki is Thor Heyerdahl’s classic 1948 nonfiction account of his experimental raft voyage across the Pacific Ocean to support his theories about Polynesian migration.
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D.
Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent
"Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent" is a contemporary novel by Terézia Mora that explores themes of alienation, globalization, and digital-age work through the life of an IT specialist.
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E.
The American Adventure
The American Adventure is a patriotic pavilion and audio-animatronic stage show at EPCOT in Walt Disney World that chronicles key moments in United States history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Expo 67 pavilion
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World’s Fair exhibition ⓘ themed exhibition area ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Man and His World theme ⓘ |
| cityOfExhibition | Montreal ⓘ |
| countryOfExhibition | Canada ⓘ |
| exhibitionType | thematic area ⓘ |
| focus |
exploration of Earth
ⓘ
exploration of outer space ⓘ humanity’s drive to discover and understand the world ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Montreal ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| locatedInEvent |
Expo 67
ⓘ
Man and His World ⓘ |
| locatedInProvince |
Quebec
ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
|
| name | Man the Explorer ⓘ |
| openedAsPartOf | Expo 67 ⓘ |
| partOf | Man and His World fair ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
history of exploration
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scientific discovery ⓘ technological progress in exploration ⓘ |
| theme |
discovery
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human exploration ⓘ science and technology ⓘ space exploration ⓘ understanding the world and beyond ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Man the Explorer Description of subject: Man the Explorer was a themed exhibition area at Montreal’s Man and His World fair that focused on humanity’s drive to discover and understand the world and beyond.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.