Dr. Walter Curnow
E503927
Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dr. Walter Curnow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5188367 — 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: Dr. Walter Curnow Context triple: [2010: The Year We Make Contact, mainCharacter, Dr. Walter Curnow]
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A.
Dr. Robert Hartley
Dr. Robert Hartley is the mild-mannered Chicago psychologist and central comedic figure portrayed by Bob Newhart on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
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B.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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C.
William Rooke Creswell
William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
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D.
Dr. William Weir
Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
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E.
Norman Z. McLeod
Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
- 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: Dr. Walter Curnow Target entity description: Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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A.
Dr. Robert Hartley
Dr. Robert Hartley is the mild-mannered Chicago psychologist and central comedic figure portrayed by Bob Newhart on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
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B.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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C.
William Rooke Creswell
William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
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D.
Dr. William Weir
Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
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E.
Norman Z. McLeod
Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
engineer
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fictional character ⓘ spacecraft designer ⓘ |
| adaptedFor | film 2010: The Year We Make Contact NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
2010 (film)
NERFINISHED
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2010: Odyssey Two NERFINISHED ⓘ 2010: The Year We Make Contact NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | science fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithSpacecraft |
Discovery One
NERFINISHED
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Leonov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Walter Curnow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Arthur C. Clarke
NERFINISHED
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Peter Hyams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseOrigin | novel 2010: Odyssey Two NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Dr. ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
ⓘ
spacecraft designer ⓘ |
| partOf | Space Odyssey series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
engineer on the spacecraft Leonov
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member of the joint US–Soviet mission to Jupiter ⓘ |
| sequelToWorkContext | 2001: A Space Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| universe | Space Odyssey universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
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: Dr. Walter Curnow Description of subject: Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.