Sulaco
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Sulaco is the Colonial Marines starship featured in the film "Aliens," serving as the setting for Ellen Ripley's return to confront the xenomorph threat.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USS Sulaco | 2 |
| Sulaco canonical | 1 |
| USCSS Sulaco | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12927355 — 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: Sulaco Context triple: [Ellen Ripley, shipAssignment, Sulaco]
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A.
T'Pring
T'Pring is a Vulcan woman from the Star Trek universe, best known as Spock's betrothed whose challenge to their arranged marriage drives the conflict in the episode "Amok Time."
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B.
Razor Crest
Razor Crest is the gunship-style spacecraft used by the bounty hunter Din Djarin in the Star Wars series "The Mandalorian."
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C.
Atlas LV-3C
Atlas LV-3C was an early American Atlas launch vehicle variant used during the initial phase of the U.S. space program for placing payloads into orbit.
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D.
Arwing
The Arwing is a sleek, high-performance space fighter spacecraft prominently featured as the primary player-controlled vehicle in Nintendo's Star Fox video game series.
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E.
MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus
The MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus is a Mon Calamari–designed capital ship that serves as the Resistance’s primary flagship in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, most notably commanded by Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo in The Last Jedi.
- 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: Sulaco Target entity description: Sulaco is the Colonial Marines starship featured in the film "Aliens," serving as the setting for Ellen Ripley's return to confront the xenomorph threat.
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A.
T'Pring
T'Pring is a Vulcan woman from the Star Trek universe, best known as Spock's betrothed whose challenge to their arranged marriage drives the conflict in the episode "Amok Time."
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B.
Razor Crest
Razor Crest is the gunship-style spacecraft used by the bounty hunter Din Djarin in the Star Wars series "The Mandalorian."
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C.
Atlas LV-3C
Atlas LV-3C was an early American Atlas launch vehicle variant used during the initial phase of the U.S. space program for placing payloads into orbit.
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D.
Arwing
The Arwing is a sleek, high-performance space fighter spacecraft prominently featured as the primary player-controlled vehicle in Nintendo's Star Fox video game series.
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E.
MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus
The MC85 Star Cruiser Raddus is a Mon Calamari–designed capital ship that serves as the Resistance’s primary flagship in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, most notably commanded by Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo in The Last Jedi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional starship
ⓘ
military vessel ⓘ spacecraft ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Weyland-Yutani Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Weyland Corporation
|
| appearsIn | Aliens ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise | Alien franchise ⓘ |
| armament |
heavy weaponry
ⓘ
missile systems ⓘ point-defense guns ⓘ |
| carries |
APC (armored personnel carrier)
ⓘ
dropships ⓘ |
| class | Conestoga-class starship ⓘ |
| commandedBy |
Lieutenant Scott Gorman
ⓘ
linked to:
Lieutenant Gorman
|
| countryOfOriginInFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | film production Aliens ⓘ |
| designStyle |
industrial
ⓘ
utilitarian ⓘ |
| featuredInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| function |
assault ship
ⓘ
troop transport ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCrew |
Colonial Marine platoon
ⓘ
synthetic android ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
armory
ⓘ
cryosleep bay ⓘ medical bay ⓘ operations center ⓘ |
| influencedBy | military science fiction aesthetics ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| missionLocation |
LV-426
ⓘ
linked to:
LV-426 colony complex
|
| missionType | xenomorph threat investigation ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
arrival in orbit around LV-426
ⓘ
departure from Gateway Station ⓘ return of Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop to cryosleep ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
United States Colonial Marine Corps
ⓘ
United States Colonial Marines ⓘ
linked to:
United States Colonial Marine Corps
|
| propulsion |
FTL-capable engines
ⓘ
sublight engines ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
primary setting for the Colonial Marines deployment to LV-426
ⓘ
transport for Ellen Ripley’s return to LV-426 ⓘ |
| transportsCharacter |
Bishop
ⓘ
Carter Burke ⓘ Dwayne Hicks ⓘ Ellen Ripley ⓘ Jenette Vasquez ⓘ William Hudson ⓘ |
| universe | Alien universe ⓘ |
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: Sulaco Description of subject: Sulaco is the Colonial Marines starship featured in the film "Aliens," serving as the setting for Ellen Ripley's return to confront the xenomorph threat.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sulaco
linked to: Sulaco
linked to: Sulaco