First Man
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First Man is a biographical drama film that chronicles astronaut Neil Armstrong's journey to becoming the first person to walk on the Moon.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Man canonical | 20 |
| First Man (2018 film) | 3 |
| First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T744391 — 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: First Man Context triple: [Jason Clarke, notableWork, First Man]
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A.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff is a 1979 non-fiction book by Tom Wolfe (later adapted into a film) that chronicles the early U.S. space program and the test pilots, including Chuck Yeager, who embodied the daring culture of high-speed flight and astronaut selection.
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B.
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is an HBO miniseries that dramatizes the history of the Apollo space program and the United States’ efforts to land astronauts on the Moon.
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C.
Lost Moon
Lost Moon is a non-fiction book by astronaut Jim Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger that recounts the dramatic events and near-disastrous failure of the Apollo 13 lunar mission.
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D.
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film that dramatizes NASA’s ill-fated 1970 lunar mission and the astronauts’ struggle to return safely to Earth.
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E.
The Aviator
The Aviator is a biographical drama film that chronicles the life and career of eccentric aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
- 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: First Man Target entity description: First Man is a biographical drama film that chronicles astronaut Neil Armstrong's journey to becoming the first person to walk on the Moon.
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A.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff is a 1979 non-fiction book by Tom Wolfe (later adapted into a film) that chronicles the early U.S. space program and the test pilots, including Chuck Yeager, who embodied the daring culture of high-speed flight and astronaut selection.
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B.
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is an HBO miniseries that dramatizes the history of the Apollo space program and the United States’ efforts to land astronauts on the Moon.
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C.
Lost Moon
Lost Moon is a non-fiction book by astronaut Jim Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger that recounts the dramatic events and near-disastrous failure of the Apollo 13 lunar mission.
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D.
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film that dramatizes NASA’s ill-fated 1970 lunar mission and the astronauts’ struggle to return safely to Earth.
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E.
The Aviator
The Aviator is a biographical drama film that chronicles the life and career of eccentric aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographical drama film
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film ⓘ |
| award |
Academy Award for Best Production Design nomination
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Academy Award for Best Sound Editing nomination ⓘ Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing nomination ⓘ Academy Award for Best Visual Effects nomination ⓘ Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| basedOn |
First Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
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| basedOnAuthor | James R. Hansen ⓘ |
| boxOffice | approximately 105000000 USD ⓘ |
| budget | 59000000 USD ⓘ |
| castMember |
Ciarán Hinds
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Claire Foy ⓘ Corey Stoll ⓘ Ethan Embry ⓘ Jason Clarke ⓘ Kyle Chandler ⓘ Patrick Fugit ⓘ Ryan Gosling ⓘ Shea Whigham ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Linus Sandgren ⓘ |
| composer | Justin Hurwitz ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Damien Chazelle ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Tom Cross ⓘ |
| event |
Venice Film Festival
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surface form:
75th Venice International Film Festival
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| genre |
biographical film
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drama film ⓘ historical drama film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Ryan Gosling ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting Neil Armstrong's journey to the first Moon walk ⓘ |
| portrays |
Neil A. Armstrong
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surface form:
Neil Armstrong
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| portraysEvent |
Apollo 11
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surface form:
Apollo 11 Moon landing
Gemini 8 ⓘ
surface form:
Gemini 8 mission
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| productionCompany |
DreamWorks Pictures
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Temple Hill Entertainment ⓘ Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2018-08-29 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 141 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Josh Singer ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| subject |
Apollo 11
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Moon landing ⓘ NASA ⓘ Neil A. Armstrong ⓘ
surface form:
Neil Armstrong
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| theatricalReleaseDate | 2018-10-12 ⓘ |
| title | First Man self-link ⓘ |
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: First Man Description of subject: First Man is a biographical drama film that chronicles astronaut Neil Armstrong's journey to becoming the first person to walk on the Moon.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
this entity surface form:
First Man (2018 film)
this entity surface form:
First Man (2018 film)
this entity surface form:
First Man (2018 film)
this entity surface form:
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
this entity surface form:
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong