Don West
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Don West is a daring and roguish space pilot who serves as the hotshot commander of the Jupiter 2 mission in the 1998 sci-fi adventure film "Lost in Space."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don West canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5706132 — 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: Don West Context triple: [Lost in Space (1998 film), mainCharacter, Don West]
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A.
Ray Evans
Ray Evans was an American lyricist best known for writing classic popular songs and film music, often in collaboration with composer Jay Livingston.
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B.
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell is an American country singer-songwriter and producer known for his influential role in the Americana and country-rock scenes, including his work with Emmylou Harris and a string of critically acclaimed solo albums.
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C.
Mickey Newbury
Mickey Newbury was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his poetic, genre-blending country songs that were widely covered by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Bill Anderson
Bill Anderson is an American country music singer-songwriter known for his soft vocal style and prolific, chart-topping songwriting career.
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E.
Bill Anderson
Bill Anderson is one of the three possible fathers and a central figure in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known for his adventurous, easygoing personality and past romance with Donna.
- 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: Don West Target entity description: Don West is a daring and roguish space pilot who serves as the hotshot commander of the Jupiter 2 mission in the 1998 sci-fi adventure film "Lost in Space."
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A.
Ray Evans
Ray Evans was an American lyricist best known for writing classic popular songs and film music, often in collaboration with composer Jay Livingston.
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B.
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell is an American country singer-songwriter and producer known for his influential role in the Americana and country-rock scenes, including his work with Emmylou Harris and a string of critically acclaimed solo albums.
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C.
Mickey Newbury
Mickey Newbury was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his poetic, genre-blending country songs that were widely covered by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Bill Anderson
Bill Anderson is an American country music singer-songwriter known for his soft vocal style and prolific, chart-topping songwriting career.
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E.
Bill Anderson
Bill Anderson is one of the three possible fathers and a central figure in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known for his adventurous, easygoing personality and past romance with Donna.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Don West (1965 Lost in Space TV series character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lost in Space (1998 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithVehicle | Jupiter 2 spacecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Major Don West (Lost in Space TV series character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdFor | Lost in Space (1998 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Lost in Space (1998 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
adventure film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| mission | Jupiter 2 mission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Don West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
action hero
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romantic interest ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | space pilot ⓘ |
| partOf | Lost in Space (1998 film) main cast ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
daring
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roguish ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Matt LeBlanc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | hotshot commander of the Jupiter 2 mission ⓘ |
| setting | outer space ⓘ |
| teamAffiliation | Jupiter 2 crew ⓘ |
| universe | Lost in Space franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksFor | Jupiter 2 mission command NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1998 ⓘ |
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: Don West Description of subject: Don West is a daring and roguish space pilot who serves as the hotshot commander of the Jupiter 2 mission in the 1998 sci-fi adventure film "Lost in Space."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.