film "Contact"
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The film "Contact" is a 1997 science fiction drama, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s discovery of an extraterrestrial signal and the ensuing political, scientific, and spiritual conflicts over humanity’s first contact with alien intelligence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| film "Contact" canonical | 5 |
| novel "Contact" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4001213 — 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: film "Contact" Context triple: [Very Large Array, featuredIn, film "Contact"]
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A.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 film)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows ordinary people drawn to a mysterious encounter with extraterrestrial life.
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B.
film "Wonderland"
"Wonderland" is a 2003 crime drama film that reconstructs the infamous 1981 Wonderland murders and the involvement of adult film star John Holmes.
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C.
2010: The Year We Make Contact
2010: The Year We Make Contact is a 1984 science fiction film and sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, exploring renewed human contact with the enigmatic monolith and the fate of Jupiter.
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D.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic 1951 science fiction film about an alien visitor and his powerful robot who come to Earth with an urgent warning for humanity.
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E.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg about a young boy who befriends a stranded alien, becoming one of the most beloved and highest-grossing movies of all time.
- 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: film "Contact" Target entity description: The film "Contact" is a 1997 science fiction drama, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s discovery of an extraterrestrial signal and the ensuing political, scientific, and spiritual conflicts over humanity’s first contact with alien intelligence.
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A.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 film)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows ordinary people drawn to a mysterious encounter with extraterrestrial life.
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B.
film "Wonderland"
"Wonderland" is a 2003 crime drama film that reconstructs the infamous 1981 Wonderland murders and the involvement of adult film star John Holmes.
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C.
2010: The Year We Make Contact
2010: The Year We Make Contact is a 1984 science fiction film and sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, exploring renewed human contact with the enigmatic monolith and the fate of Jupiter.
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D.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic 1951 science fiction film about an alien visitor and his powerful robot who come to Earth with an urgent warning for humanity.
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E.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg about a young boy who befriends a stranded alien, becoming one of the most beloved and highest-grossing movies of all time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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: film "Contact" Description of subject: The film "Contact" is a 1997 science fiction drama, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s discovery of an extraterrestrial signal and the ensuing political, scientific, and spiritual conflicts over humanity’s first contact with alien intelligence.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope
subject linked to:
Very Large Array radio telescope (near Magdalena)