The Questor Tapes
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The Questor Tapes is a 1974 science fiction television film and unsold pilot about an advanced android searching for his creator, co-written by Gene Roddenberry and starring Walter Koenig.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Questor Tapes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5214711 — 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 Questor Tapes Context triple: [Walter Koenig, notableWork, The Questor Tapes]
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A.
Die Welträthsel
Die Welträthsel is a late-19th-century philosophical and scientific work by Ernst Haeckel that attempts to explain the fundamental "riddles of the universe" through a monistic, evolutionary worldview.
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B.
Ratner’s Star
Ratner’s Star is a dense, experimental novel by Don DeLillo that blends science fiction, mathematics, and satire in its portrayal of a young math prodigy deciphering a mysterious signal from space.
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C.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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D.
The Sentinel
"The Sentinel" is a seminal science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that helped inspire the concept and themes of his later work "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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E.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series, co-written by Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child, featuring the iconic drifter hero confronting a high-stakes conspiracy.
- 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 Questor Tapes Target entity description: The Questor Tapes is a 1974 science fiction television film and unsold pilot about an advanced android searching for his creator, co-written by Gene Roddenberry and starring Walter Koenig.
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A.
Die Welträthsel
Die Welträthsel is a late-19th-century philosophical and scientific work by Ernst Haeckel that attempts to explain the fundamental "riddles of the universe" through a monistic, evolutionary worldview.
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B.
Ratner’s Star
Ratner’s Star is a dense, experimental novel by Don DeLillo that blends science fiction, mathematics, and satire in its portrayal of a young math prodigy deciphering a mysterious signal from space.
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C.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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D.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series, co-written by Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child, featuring the iconic drifter hero confronting a high-stakes conspiracy.
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E.
The Sentinel
"The Sentinel" is a seminal science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that helped inspire the concept and themes of his later work "2001: A Space Odyssey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
science fiction film
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television film ⓘ unsold television pilot ⓘ |
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Gene Roddenberry ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Gil Mellé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Richard A. Colla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Harve Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Universal Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Jerry Robinson
NERFINISHED
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Questor NERFINISHED ⓘ Vaslovik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFandom | cult following ⓘ |
| hasFormat | color ⓘ |
| hasHomeMediaRelease |
DVD
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VHS ⓘ |
| influenced | later android-themed television series ⓘ |
| intendedAs | pilot for a television series ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| partOf | Gene Roddenberry television projects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | 4:3 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An advanced android named Questor searches for his creator and his purpose. ⓘ |
| producer | Gene Roddenberry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1974-01-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 100 minutes ⓘ |
| setIn | contemporary Earth ⓘ |
| starring |
James Shigeta
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ Lew Ayres NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Farrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Foxworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Koenig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | unsold pilot ⓘ |
| theme |
androids
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artificial intelligence ⓘ creator-creation relationship ⓘ search for identity ⓘ |
| writer |
Gene L. Coon
NERFINISHED
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Gene Roddenberry 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: The Questor Tapes Description of subject: The Questor Tapes is a 1974 science fiction television film and unsold pilot about an advanced android searching for his creator, co-written by Gene Roddenberry and starring Walter Koenig.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.