Starman
E457523
Starman is a 1984 science fiction romance film in which Jeff Bridges plays an alien who takes human form and embarks on a cross-country journey with a grieving widow.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Starman canonical | 10 |
| Starman (1984 film) | 2 |
| Starman (score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4627231 — 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: Starman Context triple: [Jeff Bridges, notableWork, Starman]
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A.
Starman
Starman is a temporary invincibility-granting item in the Super Mario series that lets Mario defeat enemies by touching them.
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B.
Starman
Starman is a legacy DC Comics superhero identity, most famously borne by astronomer-turned-costumed hero Ted Knight and later his descendants, known for wielding a powerful cosmic rod and serving on teams like the Justice Society of America.
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C.
Stardust
Stardust is a fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman that blends fairy-tale romance and adventure in a magical realm bordering Victorian England.
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D.
Stardust
"Stardust" is a classic popular song, widely regarded as a jazz and American Songbook standard, famously interpreted by Louis Armstrong and many other artists.
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E.
Spaceman
"Spaceman" is a synth-driven alternative rock song by The Killers, known for its cosmic themes and energetic, anthemic sound.
- 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: Starman Target entity description: Starman is a 1984 science fiction romance film in which Jeff Bridges plays an alien who takes human form and embarks on a cross-country journey with a grieving widow.
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A.
Starman
Starman is a temporary invincibility-granting item in the Super Mario series that lets Mario defeat enemies by touching them.
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B.
Starman
Starman is a legacy DC Comics superhero identity, most famously borne by astronomer-turned-costumed hero Ted Knight and later his descendants, known for wielding a powerful cosmic rod and serving on teams like the Justice Society of America.
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C.
Stardust
Stardust is a fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman that blends fairy-tale romance and adventure in a magical realm bordering Victorian England.
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D.
Stardust
"Stardust" is a classic popular song, widely regarded as a jazz and American Songbook standard, famously interpreted by Louis Armstrong and many other artists.
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E.
Spaceman
"Spaceman" is a synth-driven alternative rock song by The Killers, known for its cosmic themes and energetic, anthemic sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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film ⓘ romance film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| character |
George Fox
NERFINISHED
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Jenny Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Shermin NERFINISHED ⓘ Starman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Donald M. Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Carpenter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Marion Rothman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Starman (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
road movie
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romance ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAwardNominee | Jeff Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTelevisionAdaptation | Starman (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
government pursuit
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grief ⓘ humanity ⓘ love ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Jeff Bridges plays an alien who assumes the form of a dead man. ⓘ |
| leadActressRole | Karen Allen plays Jenny Hayden, a grieving widow. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jack Nitzsche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An alien takes human form and travels across the United States with a grieving widow while being pursued by the government. ⓘ |
| producer | Larry J. Franco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1984-12-14 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 115 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bruce A. Evans
NERFINISHED
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Dean Riesner NERFINISHED ⓘ Raynold Gideon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| starring |
Charles Martin Smith
NERFINISHED
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Jeff Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ Karen Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Jaeckel NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Phalen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy |
Bruce A. Evans
NERFINISHED
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Raynold Gideon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Starman Description of subject: Starman is a 1984 science fiction romance film in which Jeff Bridges plays an alien who takes human form and embarks on a cross-country journey with a grieving widow.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Starman (1984 film)
this entity surface form:
Starman (1984 film)
this entity surface form:
Starman (score)