TARS
E142450
TARS is a witty, modular, and highly capable robotic assistant featured in the science fiction film "Interstellar."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TARS canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1242875 — 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: TARS Context triple: [Interstellar, featuresRobotCharacter, TARS]
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A.
Tars
Tars is the athletic nickname for the sports teams representing Rollins College.
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B.
Telarah
Telarah is a residential suburb in the City of Maitland in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
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C.
Tabasaran
Tabasaran is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Tabasaran people in southern Dagestan, Russia.
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D.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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E.
Tad
Tad is the affectionate nickname of Thomas "Tad" Lincoln, the youngest son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
- 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: TARS Target entity description: TARS is a witty, modular, and highly capable robotic assistant featured in the science fiction film "Interstellar."
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A.
Tars
Tars is the athletic nickname for the sports teams representing Rollins College.
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B.
Telarah
Telarah is a residential suburb in the City of Maitland in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
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C.
Tabasaran
Tabasaran is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Tabasaran people in southern Dagestan, Russia.
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D.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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E.
Tad
Tad is the affectionate nickname of Thomas "Tad" Lincoln, the youngest son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Artificial intelligence
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Fictional robot ⓘ Film character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Endurance crew
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NASA ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Interstellar ⓘ |
| capability |
Autonomous operation
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Computational support ⓘ Data analysis ⓘ Environmental monitoring ⓘ Humor control settings ⓘ Natural language interaction ⓘ Navigation assistance ⓘ Physical labor ⓘ Piloting assistance ⓘ Rescue operations ⓘ |
| creator | Christopher Nolan ⓘ |
| design |
Modular
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Monolithic rectangular segments ⓘ |
| genre | Science fiction ⓘ |
| humorSetting | Configurable humor level ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Joseph Cooper
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Mission objectives ⓘ |
| medium | Film ⓘ |
| mission |
Endurance interstellar mission
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Lazarus mission support ⓘ |
| notableAction | Transmitting quantum data from inside Gargantua ⓘ |
| notableScene |
Black hole Gargantua data retrieval
ⓘ
Water planet rescue sequence ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
Loyal
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Pragmatic ⓘ Sarcastic ⓘ Witty ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bill Irwin ⓘ |
| relationship |
Colleague of CASE
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Companion of Amelia Brand ⓘ Companion of Joseph Cooper ⓘ |
| role |
Engineer
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Mission support unit ⓘ Pilot assistant ⓘ Robotic assistant ⓘ Security ⓘ |
| safetySetting | Configurable honesty level ⓘ |
| setting |
Future Earth
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Spacecraft Endurance ⓘ Wormhole mission ⓘ |
| universe | Interstellar universe ⓘ |
| voiceActor | Bill Irwin ⓘ |
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: TARS Description of subject: TARS is a witty, modular, and highly capable robotic assistant featured in the science fiction film "Interstellar."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Amelia Brand