Walter (Alien: Covenant)
E791755
Walter is an advanced synthetic android model in the Alien: Covenant film, designed as a more compliant and emotionally limited successor to the earlier David unit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walter (Alien: Covenant) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9317155 — 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: Walter (Alien: Covenant) Context triple: [David (Alien franchise), hasCounterpart, Walter (Alien: Covenant)]
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A.
Riddick
Riddick is a 2013 science fiction action film in the Chronicles of Riddick franchise, starring Vin Diesel as the antihero Richard B. Riddick and featuring Karl Urban in a supporting role.
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B.
Ezri Dax
Ezri Dax is a joined Trill counselor and Starfleet officer in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine who inherits the Dax symbiont after Jadzia Dax’s death, struggling to integrate its many past lives with her own identity.
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C.
Ripley
Ripley is a television miniseries adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, starring Andrew Scott as the charismatic con artist Tom Ripley.
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D.
Ripley
Ripley is a small rural community located within Bruce County in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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E.
Ripley
Ripley is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, known for its historic high street, village green, and traditional English character.
- 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: Walter (Alien: Covenant) Target entity description: Walter is an advanced synthetic android model in the Alien: Covenant film, designed as a more compliant and emotionally limited successor to the earlier David unit.
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A.
Riddick
Riddick is a 2013 science fiction action film in the Chronicles of Riddick franchise, starring Vin Diesel as the antihero Richard B. Riddick and featuring Karl Urban in a supporting role.
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B.
Ezri Dax
Ezri Dax is a joined Trill counselor and Starfleet officer in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine who inherits the Dax symbiont after Jadzia Dax’s death, struggling to integrate its many past lives with her own identity.
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C.
Ripley
Ripley is a television miniseries adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, starring Andrew Scott as the charismatic con artist Tom Ripley.
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D.
Ripley
Ripley is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, known for its historic high street, village green, and traditional English character.
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E.
Ripley
Ripley is a small rural community located within Bruce County in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional android
ⓘ
film character ⓘ synthetic ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Alien: Covenant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise | Alien franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| assignedToShip | USCSS Covenant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToGenre | science fiction character ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ridley Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | film Alien: Covenant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedAs |
less emotionally expressive than David
ⓘ
more compliant than David ⓘ |
| designedByInUniverse | Weyland-Yutani Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engagesIn | hand-to-hand combat with David 8 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| hasAlignment | generally benevolent ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
enhanced durability
ⓘ
enhanced strength ⓘ rapid data processing ⓘ self-repair to limited extent ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | Walter One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthicalConstraints | more restrictive than David ⓘ |
| hasFunction | colony support synthetic ⓘ |
| hasMemoryType | regulated emotional subroutines ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
compliant
ⓘ
emotionally restricted ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ protective ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalAppearance |
resembles David 8
ⓘ
short-cropped hair ⓘ standard Weyland-Yutani uniform ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | David 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoleInPlot |
foil to David 8
ⓘ
protector of crew ⓘ |
| hasTechnologyBasis | synthetic android technology ⓘ |
| hasUniverse | Alien film universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Christopher Oram
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Daniels Branson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Covenant crew
ⓘ
Weyland-Yutani Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modelOf | Walter series synthetic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Fassbender NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | David 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protects | Daniels Branson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Engineer homeworld ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | synthetic android ⓘ |
| successorTo | David 8 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: Walter (Alien: Covenant) Description of subject: Walter is an advanced synthetic android model in the Alien: Covenant film, designed as a more compliant and emotionally limited successor to the earlier David unit.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David (Alien franchise)