Nostromo
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Nostromo is the commercial towing spaceship featured in the 1979 science fiction horror film "Alien," where its crew encounters a deadly extraterrestrial creature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nostromo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12927354 — 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: Nostromo Context triple: [Ellen Ripley, shipAssignment, Nostromo]
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A.
Nostromo
Nostromo is a 1904 political novel by Joseph Conrad that explores imperialism, revolution, and moral ambiguity in a fictional South American republic.
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B.
Master of the World
Master of the World is a 1961 American science fiction adventure film, loosely based on Jules Verne novels, starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronson.
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C.
Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville that explores themes of slavery, power, and deception through the mysterious encounter between an American captain and a Spanish slave ship.
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D.
La Perla del Sur
La Perla del Sur is the widely used nickname for the Puerto Rican city of Ponce, highlighting its reputation as the “Pearl of the South.”
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E.
The Maids of Cadiz
"The Maids of Cadiz" is a 19th-century French art song by Léo Delibes, later adapted into a jazz arrangement famously recorded by Miles Davis and Gil Evans on their album "Miles Ahead."
- 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: Nostromo Target entity description: Nostromo is the commercial towing spaceship featured in the 1979 science fiction horror film "Alien," where its crew encounters a deadly extraterrestrial creature.
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A.
Nostromo
Nostromo is a 1904 political novel by Joseph Conrad that explores imperialism, revolution, and moral ambiguity in a fictional South American republic.
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B.
Master of the World
Master of the World is a 1961 American science fiction adventure film, loosely based on Jules Verne novels, starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronson.
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C.
Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville that explores themes of slavery, power, and deception through the mysterious encounter between an American captain and a Spanish slave ship.
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D.
La Perla del Sur
La Perla del Sur is the widely used nickname for the Puerto Rican city of Ponce, highlighting its reputation as the “Pearl of the South.”
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E.
The Maids of Cadiz
"The Maids of Cadiz" is a 19th-century French art song by Léo Delibes, later adapted into a jazz arrangement famously recorded by Miles Davis and Gil Evans on their album "Miles Ahead."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial towing vehicle
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fictional spacecraft ⓘ spaceship ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Alien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Alien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPlanet | LV-426 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedSpecies | xenomorph ⓘ |
| cargoType | mineral ore refinery ⓘ |
| class | Lockmart CM-88B Bison M-Class star freighter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorScheme | industrial gray and white ⓘ |
| controlledBy | MU-TH-UR 6000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction | United Americas / Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Ash
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brett NERFINISHED ⓘ Dallas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellen Ripley NERFINISHED ⓘ Kane NERFINISHED ⓘ Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 7 ⓘ |
| designation | USCSS Nostromo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designStyle | used-future aesthetic ⓘ |
| destroyedBy | Ellen Ripley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destructionMethod | self-destruct sequence ⓘ |
| divertedBy | mysterious transmission from LV-426 ⓘ |
| fate | self-destructed ⓘ |
| featuredIn | Alien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorContext | Ridley Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | science fiction horror ⓘ |
| hasComputer | MU-TH-UR 6000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEscapeShuttle | Narcissus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mission | tow refinery back to Earth ⓘ |
| modelDesigner | Brian Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Nostromo (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameOriginAuthor | Joseph Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nicknameOfComputer | Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Weyland-Yutani Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownerInFiction | Weyland-Yutani Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prefix | USCSS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
commercial towing
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ore refinery tug ⓘ |
| productionDesigner | Ron Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsionType | faster-than-light capable starship ⓘ |
| registryNumber | 180924609 ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | location of first xenomorph encounter ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | late 21st century ⓘ |
| universe | Alien franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nostromo Description of subject: Nostromo is the commercial towing spaceship featured in the 1979 science fiction horror film "Alien," where its crew encounters a deadly extraterrestrial creature.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.