Joseph Cooper
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Joseph Cooper is the former NASA pilot and engineer who leads humanity’s deep-space mission to find a new habitable world in the science fiction film "Interstellar."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joseph Cooper canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1242839 — 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: Joseph Cooper Context triple: [Interstellar, mainCharacter, Joseph Cooper]
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A.
Edward James Harland
Edward James Harland was a 19th-century British shipbuilder and industrialist best known as a co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff.
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B.
John William Ferrell
John William Ferrell is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in hit comedy films such as "Anchorman" and "Elf."
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C.
Leo White
Leo White was a British-born American character actor and director best known for his work in silent films, including frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
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D.
John Lee Hancock
John Lee Hancock is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing character-driven dramas such as "The Blind Side," "The Rookie," and "Saving Mr. Banks."
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E.
Hugh Hamilton
Hugh Hamilton is a notable individual whose name is associated with the surname Hamilton, though additional context is needed to distinguish which specific Hugh Hamilton is meant.
- 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: Joseph Cooper Target entity description: Joseph Cooper is the former NASA pilot and engineer who leads humanity’s deep-space mission to find a new habitable world in the science fiction film "Interstellar."
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A.
Edward James Harland
Edward James Harland was a 19th-century British shipbuilder and industrialist best known as a co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff.
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B.
John William Ferrell
John William Ferrell is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in hit comedy films such as "Anchorman" and "Elf."
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C.
Leo White
Leo White was a British-born American character actor and director best known for his work in silent films, including frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
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D.
William A. Petersen
William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
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E.
John Lee Hancock
John Lee Hancock is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing character-driven dramas such as "The Blind Side," "The Rookie," and "Saving Mr. Banks."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| allies |
Amelia Brand
ⓘ
Murphy Cooper ⓘ TARS ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Interstellar ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Amelia Brand
ⓘ
CASE ⓘ Doyle ⓘ Dr. Mann ⓘ Professor Brand ⓘ Romilly ⓘ TARS ⓘ |
| characterArc | from reluctant farmer to self-sacrificing explorer ⓘ |
| commanded | Endurance spacecraft ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Christopher Nolan
ⓘ
Jonathan Nolan ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| enemies | Dr. Mann (antagonistic conflict) ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
father of Murph Cooper
ⓘ
father of Tom Cooper ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | science fiction ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Interstellar
ⓘ
surface form:
Interstellar (2014 film)
|
| formerOccupation | test pilot ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Murphy Cooper
ⓘ
Tom Cooper ⓘ |
| homeLocation | American Midwest farm ⓘ |
| laterOccupation |
farmer
ⓘ
space explorer ⓘ |
| missionObjective | find habitable planet for humanity ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse | Interstellar universe ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
communicated quantum data to Murph via tesseract
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entered Gargantua black hole ⓘ piloted Endurance through wormhole near Saturn ⓘ |
| notableWork | Endurance mission ⓘ |
| occupation |
NASA pilot
ⓘ
engineer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Lazarus mission follow-up ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Matthew McConaughey ⓘ |
| primaryMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of Interstellar ⓘ |
| spouse | Unnamed deceased wife ⓘ |
| themeInStory | parental love across time and space ⓘ |
| vehiclePiloted |
Lander spacecraft
ⓘ
Ranger spacecraft ⓘ |
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: Joseph Cooper Description of subject: Joseph Cooper is the former NASA pilot and engineer who leads humanity’s deep-space mission to find a new habitable world in the science fiction film "Interstellar."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Amelia Brand
subject surface form:
Amelia Brand
subject surface form:
Brand (Interstellar)