Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of the 1976 science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking water for his dying planet and becomes corrupted by human society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363218 — 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: Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth Context triple: [David Bowie, notableRole, Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth]
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A.
John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
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B.
Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary is the everyman electrical lineman whose obsessive pursuit of a mysterious UFO encounter drives the central narrative of Steven Spielberg’s film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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C.
Daniel Quasar
Daniel Quasar is a graphic designer best known for creating the Progress Pride Flag, an updated version of the rainbow flag that emphasizes inclusion and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
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D.
Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle is the brilliant but doomed scientist who transforms into a human-fly hybrid in David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film "The Fly."
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E.
Charlie Gordon
Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
- 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: Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth Target entity description: Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of the 1976 science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking water for his dying planet and becomes corrupted by human society.
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A.
John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
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B.
Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary is the everyman electrical lineman whose obsessive pursuit of a mysterious UFO encounter drives the central narrative of Steven Spielberg’s film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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C.
Daniel Quasar
Daniel Quasar is a graphic designer best known for creating the Progress Pride Flag, an updated version of the rainbow flag that emphasizes inclusion and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
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D.
Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle is the brilliant but doomed scientist who transforms into a human-fly hybrid in David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film "The Fly."
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E.
Charlie Gordon
Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
extraterrestrial being
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| addiction |
alcohol
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| antagonizedBy | U.S. government agents ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arrivesIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arrivesOn | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| betrayedBy | Dr. Nathan Bryce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| corruptedBy |
fame
ⓘ
human society ⓘ wealth ⓘ |
| creator | Walter Tevis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | heterochromatic (in film portrayal) ⓘ |
| formsRelationshipWith | Mary-Lou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundsOrganization | World Enterprises Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal | to obtain water for his home planet ⓘ |
| hairColor | red (in film portrayal) ⓘ |
| homePlanet | unnamed drought-stricken planet ⓘ |
| loses | ability to return to his home planet ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
ability to design revolutionary technologies
ⓘ
advanced technical knowledge ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
aloof demeanor
ⓘ
emotional detachment ⓘ frail physical appearance ⓘ high intelligence ⓘ |
| occupation |
business magnate
ⓘ
industrialist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWorldEnterprisesCorporation |
founder
ⓘ
head ⓘ |
| romanticRelationshipWith | Mary-Lou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | alien ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
government surveillance
ⓘ
imprisonment ⓘ medical experimentation ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
addiction
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alienation ⓘ capitalism ⓘ exploitation ⓘ loss of innocence ⓘ |
| usesAlias | Thomas Jerome Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesTechnology | advanced alien technology ⓘ |
| wealthStatus | extremely wealthy ⓘ |
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: Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth Description of subject: Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of the 1976 science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking water for his dying planet and becomes corrupted by human society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.