Endurance spacecraft
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The Endurance spacecraft is the interstellar exploration vessel featured in the film "Interstellar," used by NASA to travel through a wormhole in search of habitable worlds for humanity’s survival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Endurance spacecraft canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6333946 — 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: Endurance spacecraft Context triple: [Joseph Cooper, commanded, Endurance spacecraft]
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A.
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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B.
Space Transportation System
Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
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C.
Starship launch system
The Starship launch system is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation rocket designed for deep-space missions, including transporting humans and cargo to the Moon and Mars.
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D.
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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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: Endurance spacecraft Target entity description: The Endurance spacecraft is the interstellar exploration vessel featured in the film "Interstellar," used by NASA to travel through a wormhole in search of habitable worlds for humanity’s survival.
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A.
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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B.
Space Transportation System
Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
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C.
Starship launch system
The Starship launch system is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation rocket designed for deep-space missions, including transporting humans and cargo to the Moon and Mars.
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D.
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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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 (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional spacecraft
ⓘ
interstellar spacecraft ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Interstellar ⓘ |
| associatedBlackHole | Gargantua ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lazarus missions
ⓘ
linked to:
Lazarus mission follow-up via Endurance
|
| countryOfOriginInFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewCapacity | up to 12 astronauts (implied in film materials) ⓘ |
| designedBy | Nathan Crowley ⓘ |
| designedFor | long-duration interstellar exploration ⓘ |
| destinationRegion | another galaxy ⓘ |
| explores |
Edmunds’ planet
ⓘ
Mann’s planet ⓘ Miller’s planet ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
2014 film Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan
ⓘ
linked to:
Interstellar
|
| fictionalUniverse | Interstellar universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| goal | enable execution of Plan A or Plan B for humanity’s survival ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
12 connected modules
ⓘ
Lander vehicles ⓘ Ranger landing craft ⓘ central hub ⓘ |
| hasDesignInspiration |
International Space Station
ⓘ
NASA conceptual spacecraft designs ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
habitat for crew
ⓘ
scientific research platform ⓘ transport for landers and Rangers ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasShape | ring-shaped modular structure ⓘ |
| launchesFrom | Earth ⓘ |
| mediaType | film prop and CGI model ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central setting for much of Interstellar ⓘ |
| notableAICompanion |
CASE
ⓘ
TARS ⓘ |
| notableCrewMember |
Amelia Brand
ⓘ
Doyle ⓘ Joseph Cooper ⓘ Romilly ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NASA (fictional, in Interstellar)
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
|
| primaryMission | search for habitable worlds for humanity’s survival ⓘ |
| productionDesigner | Nathan Crowley ⓘ |
| propulsionType | spin-gravity spacecraft with conventional and advanced propulsion (fictional) ⓘ |
| provides | artificial gravity via rotation ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | near future (mid-21st century, implied) ⓘ |
| threatsFaced |
damage from debris and maneuvers near Gargantua
ⓘ
gravitational time dilation near a black hole ⓘ |
| travelsThrough | wormhole near Saturn ⓘ |
| uses | wormhole travel ⓘ |
| visualEffectsCompany | Double Negative (DNEG) ⓘ |
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: Endurance spacecraft Description of subject: The Endurance spacecraft is the interstellar exploration vessel featured in the film "Interstellar," used by NASA to travel through a wormhole in search of habitable worlds for humanity’s survival.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.