Alan Murdock
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Alan Murdock is the airline pilot protagonist in the 1974 disaster film "Airport 1975," who must take control of a crippled passenger jet mid-flight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Murdock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913188 — 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: Alan Murdock Context triple: [Airport 1975, mainCharacter, Alan Murdock]
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A.
Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock was an American software engineer best known as the creator of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
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B.
Ben Demaree
Ben Demaree is a cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work on low-budget genre films, including fantasy and science fiction titles.
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C.
Randy Page
Randy Page is a public figure whose name is notably associated with the surname Page, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are limited.
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D.
Jack Murdock
Jack Murdock was an American entrepreneur and electronics pioneer best known as a co-founder of the test and measurement equipment company Tektronix.
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E.
Bob Parsons
Bob Parsons is an American entrepreneur and billionaire best known as the founder of the domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy.
- 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: Alan Murdock Target entity description: Alan Murdock is the airline pilot protagonist in the 1974 disaster film "Airport 1975," who must take control of a crippled passenger jet mid-flight.
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A.
Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock was an American software engineer best known as the creator of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
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B.
Ben Demaree
Ben Demaree is a cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work on low-budget genre films, including fantasy and science fiction titles.
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C.
Randy Page
Randy Page is a public figure whose name is notably associated with the surname Page, though specific widely recognized biographical details about him are limited.
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D.
Jack Murdock
Jack Murdock was an American entrepreneur and electronics pioneer best known as a co-founder of the test and measurement equipment company Tektronix.
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E.
Bob Parsons
Bob Parsons is an American entrepreneur and billionaire best known as the founder of the domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| aircraftFlown | Boeing 747 ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Airport 1975 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
in-flight emergency
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mid-air collision incident ⓘ |
| characterAlignment | heroic ⓘ |
| characterType | professional pilot ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | Airport 1975 ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Airport film series ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | disaster film ⓘ |
| keyPlotPoint |
boards aircraft in flight
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lands damaged airliner safely ⓘ takes control of crippled passenger jet mid-flight ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | saves passengers ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | hero ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | airline pilot ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Charlton Heston ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Airport 1975 ⓘ |
| rank | captain ⓘ |
| roleIn | Airport 1975 ⓘ |
| setting |
Salt Lake City to Los Angeles route
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commercial airliner in flight ⓘ |
| transportMode | commercial aviation ⓘ |
| worksFor | Columbia Airlines ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1974 ⓘ |
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: Alan Murdock Description of subject: Alan Murdock is the airline pilot protagonist in the 1974 disaster film "Airport 1975," who must take control of a crippled passenger jet mid-flight.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.