The Right Stuff
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The Right Stuff is a 1979 non-fiction book by Tom Wolfe (later adapted into a film) that chronicles the early U.S. space program and the test pilots, including Chuck Yeager, who embodied the daring culture of high-speed flight and astronaut selection.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Right Stuff canonical | 11 |
| The Right Stuff (book) | 4 |
| The Right Stuff (1983 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T356574 — 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: The Right Stuff Context triple: [Chuck Yeager, subjectOf, The Right Stuff]
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A.
Our Banner in the Sky
Our Banner in the Sky is a patriotic 1861 landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church that depicts the American flag formed by a dramatic sunrise sky and treeline.
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B.
Silver Star
Silver Star is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs along the U.S. East Coast, connecting New York City with Florida.
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C.
Silver Star
The Silver Star is a high-level U.S. military decoration awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.
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D.
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film that dramatizes NASA’s ill-fated 1970 lunar mission and the astronauts’ struggle to return safely to Earth.
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E.
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis is Charles Lindbergh’s Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiographical account of his pioneering 1927 solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 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: The Right Stuff Target entity description: The Right Stuff is a 1979 non-fiction book by Tom Wolfe (later adapted into a film) that chronicles the early U.S. space program and the test pilots, including Chuck Yeager, who embodied the daring culture of high-speed flight and astronaut selection.
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A.
Our Banner in the Sky
Our Banner in the Sky is a patriotic 1861 landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church that depicts the American flag formed by a dramatic sunrise sky and treeline.
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B.
Silver Star
Silver Star is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs along the U.S. East Coast, connecting New York City with Florida.
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C.
Silver Star
The Silver Star is a high-level U.S. military decoration awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.
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D.
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film that dramatizes NASA’s ill-fated 1970 lunar mission and the astronauts’ struggle to return safely to Earth.
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E.
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis is Charles Lindbergh’s Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiographical account of his pioneering 1927 solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | non-fiction book ⓘ |
| adaptedAsFilm |
The Right Stuff (1983 film)
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linked to:
The Right Stuff
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| author | Tom Wolfe ⓘ |
| awarded | National Book Award for Nonfiction ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describes |
United States Air Force test pilots
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astronaut selection ⓘ high-speed flight culture ⓘ risk-taking in aviation ⓘ space race ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
competition
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courage ⓘ heroism ⓘ masculinity ⓘ technology and risk ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Alan Shepard
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Chuck Yeager ⓘ Deke Slayton ⓘ Gordon Cooper ⓘ Gus Grissom ⓘ John Glenn ⓘ Scott Carpenter ⓘ Wally Schirra ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Philip Kaufman ⓘ |
| focusesOnEvent |
breaking the sound barrier
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early NASA missions ⓘ selection of the Mercury Seven astronauts ⓘ |
| genre |
history
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journalism ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Right Stuff (1983 film)
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linked to:
The Right Stuff (film) score
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| hasISBN | 978-0-374-15808-6 ⓘ |
| hasOCLCNumber | 4495439 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approx. 436 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | New Journalism ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Project Mercury
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linked to:
Mercury program
early U.S. space program ⓘ test pilots ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed narrative style
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portrayal of test pilot culture ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ Cold War ⓘ |
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: The Right Stuff Description of subject: The Right Stuff is a 1979 non-fiction book by Tom Wolfe (later adapted into a film) that chronicles the early U.S. space program and the test pilots, including Chuck Yeager, who embodied the daring culture of high-speed flight and astronaut selection.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Right Stuff
linked to: The Right Stuff
linked to: The Right Stuff
linked to: The Right Stuff
subject linked to:
Thomas
linked to: The Right Stuff