George Taylor
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George Taylor is the cynical, misanthropic astronaut protagonist of the 1968 science fiction film "Planet of the Apes," whose journey exposes a dystopian world ruled by intelligent apes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| George Taylor canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9283411 — 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: George Taylor Context triple: [Planet of the Apes (1968 film), mainCharacter, George Taylor]
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A.
George Taylor
George Taylor was a Canadian architect best known for designing Toronto’s historic concert venue Massey Hall.
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B.
Charlie Gillingham
Charlie Gillingham is an American musician best known as the longtime keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist for the rock band Counting Crows.
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C.
Charles Gough
Charles Gough was an 18th-century British mariner whose reported sighting led to the later identification and naming of Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
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D.
Thomas Pasley
Thomas Pasley was a Royal Navy officer who rose to flag rank during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and saw extensive service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
Gilbert Taylor
Gilbert Taylor was a renowned British cinematographer best known for his influential work on landmark films such as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and Dr. Strangelove.
- 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: George Taylor Target entity description: George Taylor is the cynical, misanthropic astronaut protagonist of the 1968 science fiction film "Planet of the Apes," whose journey exposes a dystopian world ruled by intelligent apes.
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A.
George Taylor
George Taylor was a Canadian architect best known for designing Toronto’s historic concert venue Massey Hall.
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B.
Charlie Gillingham
Charlie Gillingham is an American musician best known as the longtime keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist for the rock band Counting Crows.
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C.
Charles Gough
Charles Gough was an 18th-century British mariner whose reported sighting led to the later identification and naming of Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
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D.
Thomas Pasley
Thomas Pasley was a Royal Navy officer who rose to flag rank during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and saw extensive service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
Gilbert Taylor
Gilbert Taylor was a renowned British cinematographer best known for his influential work on landmark films such as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and Dr. Strangelove.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronaut
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| allies |
Cornelius
ⓘ
Nova ⓘ Zira ⓘ |
| antagonisticForce | ape society ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Planet of the Apes
ⓘ
linked to:
Planet of the Apes (1968 film)
|
| appearsInFilm | Planet of the Apes (1968 film) ⓘ |
| basedOn | concepts from Pierre Boulle's novel Planet of the Apes ⓘ |
| capturedBy | gorilla soldiers ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
misanthropic ⓘ |
| communicationStatus | initially mute to apes due to injury ⓘ |
| conflictWith | ape religious dogma ⓘ |
| createdBy |
screenwriter Michael Wilson
ⓘ
screenwriter Rod Serling ⓘ
linked to:
Rod Serling
|
| discovers | that the ape planet is actually future Earth ⓘ |
| enemy | Dr. Zaius ⓘ |
| filmGenre | science fiction ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Planet of the Apes (1968 film) ⓘ |
| franchise | Planet of the Apes franchise ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| iconicScene | kneeling before the ruined Statue of Liberty ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn | ape city ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| laterSpeaksTo |
Cornelius
ⓘ
Zira ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableQuote | Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! ⓘ |
| notableScene | trial before the ape tribunal ⓘ |
| occupation | astronaut ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Charlton Heston ⓘ |
| realizes | human civilization destroyed itself ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Nova ⓘ |
| settingEncountered | dystopian future Earth ⓘ |
| spaceMission | deep-space mission that time-travels to future Earth ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
alienation from humanity
ⓘ
human self-destruction ⓘ |
| worldEncountered | planet ruled by intelligent apes ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1968 ⓘ |
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: George Taylor Description of subject: George Taylor is the cynical, misanthropic astronaut protagonist of the 1968 science fiction film "Planet of the Apes," whose journey exposes a dystopian world ruled by intelligent apes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.