Sphere
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"Sphere" is a 1998 science fiction thriller film directed by Barry Levinson, based on Michael Crichton's novel about a team of scientists investigating a mysterious spacecraft on the ocean floor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sphere canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3498317 — 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: Sphere Context triple: [Barry Levinson, notableWork, Sphere]
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SPHERE
SPHERE is a high-contrast imaging instrument on the Very Large Telescope designed primarily for directly observing and characterizing exoplanets and circumstellar disks.
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B.
Ball
Ball is a common English surname borne by numerous individuals, including the famed American comedian and actress Lucille Ball.
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C.
Ball
Ball is a well-known consumer brand, particularly recognized for its glass canning jars and home food preservation products.
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D.
Cone
Cone is a surname most notably associated with David Cone, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and five-time World Series champion.
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E.
Steinmetz solid
The Steinmetz solid is a three-dimensional geometric shape formed by the intersection of two or more cylinders at right angles, often studied in calculus and solid geometry for its interesting volume and symmetry properties.
- 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: Sphere Target entity description: "Sphere" is a 1998 science fiction thriller film directed by Barry Levinson, based on Michael Crichton's novel about a team of scientists investigating a mysterious spacecraft on the ocean floor.
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A.
SPHERE
SPHERE is a high-contrast imaging instrument on the Very Large Telescope designed primarily for directly observing and characterizing exoplanets and circumstellar disks.
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B.
Ball
Ball is a common English surname borne by numerous individuals, including the famed American comedian and actress Lucille Ball.
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C.
Ball
Ball is a well-known consumer brand, particularly recognized for its glass canning jars and home food preservation products.
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D.
Cone
Cone is a surname most notably associated with David Cone, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and five-time World Series champion.
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E.
Steinmetz solid
The Steinmetz solid is a three-dimensional geometric shape formed by the intersection of two or more cylinders at right angles, often studied in calculus and solid geometry for its interesting volume and symmetry properties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sphere Description of subject: "Sphere" is a 1998 science fiction thriller film directed by Barry Levinson, based on Michael Crichton's novel about a team of scientists investigating a mysterious spacecraft on the ocean floor.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.