USCSS Nostromo
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USCSS Nostromo is the commercial towing spaceship featured in the 1979 science fiction horror film "Alien," serving as the primary setting for the crew's encounter with the deadly xenomorph.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USCSS Nostromo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10226708 — 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.
Target entity: USCSS Nostromo Context triple: [Ash, affiliation, USCSS Nostromo]
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A.
SS Nomadic
SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
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B.
Arielle Ship
Arielle Ship is an American soccer forward known for her standout collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequent professional play in the National Women's Soccer League.
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C.
S.S. Lotus
S.S. Lotus is the steamship at the center of the 1927 Permanent Court of International Justice case "The Lotus," a landmark decision in international law on jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas.
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D.
Yankee Clipper
Yankee Clipper was the Apollo 12 command and service module spacecraft that carried astronauts to lunar orbit during NASA’s second Moon-landing mission.
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E.
MV Arlanza
MV Arlanza was a British ocean liner built by the renowned shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff for passenger and cargo service in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: USCSS Nostromo Target entity description: USCSS Nostromo is the commercial towing spaceship featured in the 1979 science fiction horror film "Alien," serving as the primary setting for the crew's encounter with the deadly xenomorph.
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A.
SS Nomadic
SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
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B.
Arielle Ship
Arielle Ship is an American soccer forward known for her standout collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequent professional play in the National Women's Soccer League.
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C.
S.S. Lotus
S.S. Lotus is the steamship at the center of the 1927 Permanent Court of International Justice case "The Lotus," a landmark decision in international law on jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas.
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D.
Yankee Clipper
Yankee Clipper was the Apollo 12 command and service module spacecraft that carried astronauts to lunar orbit during NASA’s second Moon-landing mission.
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E.
MV Arlanza
MV Arlanza was a British ocean liner built by the renowned shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff for passenger and cargo service in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional spacecraft
ⓘ
spaceship ⓘ |
| affiliation |
The Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Weyland-Yutani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| AIName | Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Alien
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alien franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cargoType | ore refinery ⓘ |
| class | Lockmart CM-88B Bison M-Class starfreighter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewComplement | 7 ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Ash
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brett NERFINISHED ⓘ Dallas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellen Ripley NERFINISHED ⓘ Kane NERFINISHED ⓘ Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewStatusAtEndOfFilm | only Ellen Ripley survives ⓘ |
| destructionCause | self-destruct sequence initiated by Ellen Ripley ⓘ |
| fate | self-destructed ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfFirstAppearance | Ridley Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Alien (1979 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | commercial towing vehicle ⓘ |
| genreContext | science fiction horror ⓘ |
| hasAI | MU-TH-UR 6000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Alien (franchise)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fictional spacecraft ⓘ Film locations ⓘ |
| hasLandingModule | separate refinery and cargo platform ⓘ |
| hasShuttle | Narcissus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Lockmart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| missionType | towing mineral ore refinery ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | Nostromo by Joseph Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first recorded encounter with xenomorph XX121 in Alien (1979 film) ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
bridge with AI interface
ⓘ
hypersleep chambers ⓘ industrial interior design ⓘ self-destruct system with countdown ⓘ |
| operator | Weyland-Yutani Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLocationInPlot | outer space GENERATED ⓘ |
| productionDesignerOfFirstAppearance | Ron Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| registration | 180924609 ⓘ |
| registryPrefix | USCSS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary setting of Alien (1979 film) ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfFirstAppearance | Dan O'Bannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingType | deep-space commercial vessel ⓘ |
| universe | Alien universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visualDesignInfluence | industrial, truck-in-space aesthetic ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: USCSS Nostromo Description of subject: USCSS Nostromo is the commercial towing spaceship featured in the 1979 science fiction horror film "Alien," serving as the primary setting for the crew's encounter with the deadly xenomorph.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.