Contact
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Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Contact canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3013848 — 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: Contact Context triple: [Alicia Christian Foster, notableWork, Contact]
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Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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Conn
Conn is an Irish given name of ancient Gaelic origin, often associated with meanings like "chief" or "wisdom" and borne by several legendary and historical figures in Ireland.
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C.
.me
.me is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Montenegro, widely used worldwide for personal and brandable web addresses.
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D.
Reach Out
"Reach Out" is a classic 1967 Motown soul album by The Four Tops featuring some of their most famous hits, including "Reach Out I'll Be There."
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E.
Directory
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 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 Target entity description: Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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A.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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B.
Conn
Conn is an Irish given name of ancient Gaelic origin, often associated with meanings like "chief" or "wisdom" and borne by several legendary and historical figures in Ireland.
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C.
.me
.me is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Montenegro, widely used worldwide for personal and brandable web addresses.
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D.
Reach Out
"Reach Out" is a classic 1967 Motown soul album by The Four Tops featuring some of their most famous hits, including "Reach Out I'll Be There."
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E.
Directory
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 Description of subject: Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jodie Foster