Matt Kowalski
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Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matt Kowalski canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T657078 — 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: Matt Kowalski Context triple: [George Clooney, portrayedCharacter, Matt Kowalski]
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A.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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B.
John Teller
John Teller is the deceased co-founder and former president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy," whose ideals and writings profoundly influence his son Jax Teller.
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C.
Logan Killicks
Logan Killicks is Janie Crawford’s first husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," an older, pragmatic farmer whose loveless, controlling marriage prompts her search for independence and true love.
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D.
Newt Geiszler
Newt Geiszler is a quirky, hyper-intelligent kaiju-obsessed scientist and former PPDC researcher in the Pacific Rim film series.
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E.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
- 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: Matt Kowalski Target entity description: Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
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A.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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B.
John Teller
John Teller is the deceased co-founder and former president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy," whose ideals and writings profoundly influence his son Jax Teller.
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C.
Logan Killicks
Logan Killicks is Janie Crawford’s first husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," an older, pragmatic farmer whose loveless, controlling marriage prompts her search for independence and true love.
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D.
Newt Geiszler
Newt Geiszler is a quirky, hyper-intelligent kaiju-obsessed scientist and former PPDC researcher in the Pacific Rim film series.
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E.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gravity ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
calm under pressure
ⓘ
experienced ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Alfonso Cuarón ⓘ |
| createdFor |
Gravity (2013 film)
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surface form:
the film Gravity
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| describedAs |
spacewalker
ⓘ
veteran astronaut ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | spaceflight ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Gravity (2013 film) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Dr. Ryan Stone
ⓘ
surface form:
Ryan Stone
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| hasSkill |
extravehicular activity
ⓘ
spacewalking ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| missionType | space shuttle mission ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| notableEvent | space debris accident in orbit ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gravity ⓘ |
| occupation | astronaut ⓘ |
| partOf | Gravity (film) fictional universe ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | George Clooney ⓘ |
| position | mission commander ⓘ |
| spaceActivity | Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Dr. Ryan Stone
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surface form:
Ryan Stone
|
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2013 ⓘ |
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: Matt Kowalski Description of subject: Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.