Contact (1997 film)
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Contact is a 1997 science fiction drama film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence and the ensuing clash between science, faith, and politics.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Contact (1997 film) canonical | 11 |
| Contact (film adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel) | 1 |
| Contact (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1588006 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Contact (1997 film) Context triple: [Palmer Joss, workBasedOnThisCharacter, Contact (1997 film)]
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Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 romantic comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, centered on a widower whose son calls a radio show to help find him a new partner.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact
2010: The Year We Make Contact is a 1984 science fiction film and sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, exploring renewed human contact with the enigmatic monolith and the fate of Jupiter.
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C.
The Truman Show
The Truman Show is a 1998 satirical science-fiction film about a man who unknowingly lives his entire life as the star of a globally broadcast reality TV show.
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D.
Sunshine (1999 film)
Sunshine (1999 film) is a historical drama that follows several generations of a Hungarian Jewish family through the political upheavals of the 20th century.
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E.
The Conversation
The Conversation is a 1974 psychological thriller film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, centered on a paranoid surveillance expert whose work leads him into a moral and existential crisis.
- 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: Contact (1997 film) Target entity description: Contact is a 1997 science fiction drama film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence and the ensuing clash between science, faith, and politics.
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A.
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 romantic comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, centered on a widower whose son calls a radio show to help find him a new partner.
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B.
2010: The Year We Make Contact
2010: The Year We Make Contact is a 1984 science fiction film and sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, exploring renewed human contact with the enigmatic monolith and the fate of Jupiter.
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C.
The Truman Show
The Truman Show is a 1998 satirical science-fiction film about a man who unknowingly lives his entire life as the star of a globally broadcast reality TV show.
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D.
Sunshine (1999 film)
Sunshine (1999 film) is a historical drama that follows several generations of a Hungarian Jewish family through the political upheavals of the 20th century.
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E.
The Conversation
The Conversation is a 1974 psychological thriller film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, centered on a paranoid surveillance expert whose work leads him into a moral and existential crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Contact (1997 film) Description of subject: Contact is a 1997 science fiction drama film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence and the ensuing clash between science, faith, and politics.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Contact (film adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel)
this entity surface form:
Contact (film)