The Martian
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The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, based on Andy Weir’s novel, that follows an astronaut stranded on Mars who must use his ingenuity to survive while awaiting rescue.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T309244 — 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: The Martian Context triple: [Matt Damon, notableWork, The Martian]
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Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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C.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel depicting a devastating Martian invasion of Earth and humanity’s struggle to survive.
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Pale Blue Dot
"Pale Blue Dot" is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that reflects on humanity’s place in the universe, inspired by the famous Voyager 1 photograph of Earth from deep space.
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E.
The Lives of the Planets
"The Lives of the Planets" is an episode of Carl Sagan’s landmark science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the origins, evolution, and diverse characteristics of the planets in our solar system.
- 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: The Martian Target entity description: The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, based on Andy Weir’s novel, that follows an astronaut stranded on Mars who must use his ingenuity to survive while awaiting rescue.
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A.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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B.
Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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C.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel depicting a devastating Martian invasion of Earth and humanity’s struggle to survive.
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D.
Pale Blue Dot
"Pale Blue Dot" is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that reflects on humanity’s place in the universe, inspired by the famous Voyager 1 photograph of Earth from deep space.
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E.
The Lives of the Planets
"The Lives of the Planets" is an episode of Carl Sagan’s landmark science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the origins, evolution, and diverse characteristics of the planets in our solar system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: The Martian Description of subject: The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, based on Andy Weir’s novel, that follows an astronaut stranded on Mars who must use his ingenuity to survive while awaiting rescue.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Martian (film)
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The Martian (film)
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The Martian (film)
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The Martian (novel)
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The Martian (2015 film)
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The Martian (novel)
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The Martian universe
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The Martian franchise
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The Martian (2015 film)
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The Martian universe
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The Martian (novel)
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The Martian (2011 novel)
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Matt Damon
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The Martian (film)
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The Martian (novel)
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The Martian (2015 film)
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The Martian universe
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Beth Johanssen
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Beth Johanssen
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The Martian (novel)
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Beth Johanssen
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The Martian (film)
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Beth Johanssen
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The Martian universe
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Beth Johanssen
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The Martian (self-published 2011 novel)
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Beth Johanssen
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The Martian (2014 Crown Publishing edition)
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Beth Johanssen
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The Martian (2015 film)
this entity surface form:
The Martian (2015 film)
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The Martian (2015 film)
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The Martian franchise
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The Martian (novel)