Flying Saucers from Outer Space
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Flying Saucers from Outer Space is a 1953 non-fiction book by retired U.S. Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe that popularized the idea of extraterrestrial visitation and government cover-ups of UFOs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flying Saucers from Outer Space canonical | 2 |
| Chariots of the Gods? | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5224536 — 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: Flying Saucers from Outer Space Context triple: [Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, basedOn, Flying Saucers from Outer Space]
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A.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is a 1956 American science fiction film known for its iconic stop-motion alien spacecraft effects and classic Cold War-era invasion storyline.
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B.
Citizen of the Galaxy
Citizen of the Galaxy is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that follows a boy sold into slavery who becomes embroiled in interstellar politics and the fight against galactic slave trading.
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C.
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets is a science-fiction television miniseries that presents a realistic, documentary-style depiction of a crewed journey through the Solar System.
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D.
The Invaders
"The Invaders" is a renowned, nearly dialogue-free episode of the original The Twilight Zone series, in which a solitary woman in a remote farmhouse is terrorized by tiny, mysterious invaders.
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E.
The Krotons
"The Krotons" is a serial from the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring the Second Doctor as he confronts crystalline alien beings oppressing a primitive human society.
- 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: Flying Saucers from Outer Space Target entity description: Flying Saucers from Outer Space is a 1953 non-fiction book by retired U.S. Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe that popularized the idea of extraterrestrial visitation and government cover-ups of UFOs.
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A.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is a 1956 American science fiction film known for its iconic stop-motion alien spacecraft effects and classic Cold War-era invasion storyline.
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B.
Citizen of the Galaxy
Citizen of the Galaxy is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that follows a boy sold into slavery who becomes embroiled in interstellar politics and the fight against galactic slave trading.
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C.
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets is a science-fiction television miniseries that presents a realistic, documentary-style depiction of a crewed journey through the Solar System.
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D.
The Invaders
"The Invaders" is a renowned, nearly dialogue-free episode of the original The Twilight Zone series, in which a solitary woman in a remote farmhouse is terrorized by tiny, mysterious invaders.
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E.
The Krotons
"The Krotons" is a serial from the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring the Second Doctor as he confronts crystalline alien beings oppressing a primitive human society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| author | Donald Keyhoe ⓘ |
| authorFullName |
Donald Edward Keyhoe
ⓘ
linked to:
Donald Keyhoe
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| authorOccupation | retired U.S. Marine Corps Major ⓘ |
| claims |
U.S. government is concealing information about UFOs
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UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| discusses |
Project Blue Book
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Project Grudge ⓘ Project Sign ⓘ U.S. Air Force UFO investigations ⓘ |
| follows | The Flying Saucers Are Real ⓘ |
| genre |
UFO literature
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conspiracy literature ⓘ paranormal literature ⓘ |
| hasForm |
hardcover edition
ⓘ
paperback edition ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | pro-extraterrestrial hypothesis ⓘ |
| hasSubjectArea |
conspiracy theories
ⓘ
military and intelligence secrecy ⓘ ufology ⓘ |
| influenced |
popular belief in UFO cover-ups
ⓘ
public perception of flying saucers in the 1950s ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
United States government and UFOs
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extraterrestrial visitation ⓘ government cover-up ⓘ unidentified flying objects ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early influential UFO book
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popularizing the idea of extraterrestrial visitation ⓘ popularizing the idea of government UFO cover-ups ⓘ |
| periodOfReception | 1950s American UFO craze ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| publisher | Holt ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
UFO conspiracy theories
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extraterrestrial hypothesis ⓘ flying saucer wave of the late 1940s and early 1950s ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| timePeriodDescribed | early Cold War era ⓘ |
| workChronologyPosition | second major UFO book by Donald Keyhoe ⓘ |
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: Flying Saucers from Outer Space Description of subject: Flying Saucers from Outer Space is a 1953 non-fiction book by retired U.S. Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe that popularized the idea of extraterrestrial visitation and government cover-ups of UFOs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flying Saucers from Outer Space