The Right Stuff
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The Right Stuff is a 1983 American historical drama film about the early U.S. space program and the original Mercury 7 astronauts, acclaimed for its direction, performances, and realistic depiction of test pilots and spaceflight.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Right Stuff canonical | 29 |
| The Right Stuff (1983 film) | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2832593 — 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: The Right Stuff Context triple: [Irwin Winkler, notableWork, The Right Stuff]
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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.
First Man
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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C.
Yeager: An Autobiography
Yeager: An Autobiography is the memoir of legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, chronicling his life from humble beginnings through breaking the sound barrier and becoming an icon of American aviation.
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D.
Everyone's Gone to the Moon
"Everyone's Gone to the Moon" is a 1965 pop song written and performed by Jonathan King that became his breakthrough hit and a notable example of mid-1960s British pop.
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E.
Gagarin's Start
Gagarin's Start is the historic launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome from which Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space and which has since been used for numerous crewed Soyuz missions.
- 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: The Right Stuff Target entity description: The Right Stuff is a 1983 American historical drama film about the early U.S. space program and the original Mercury 7 astronauts, acclaimed for its direction, performances, and realistic depiction of test pilots and spaceflight.
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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.
First Man
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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C.
Yeager: An Autobiography
Yeager: An Autobiography is the memoir of legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, chronicling his life from humble beginnings through breaking the sound barrier and becoming an icon of American aviation.
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D.
Everyone's Gone to the Moon
"Everyone's Gone to the Moon" is a 1965 pop song written and performed by Jonathan King that became his breakthrough hit and a notable example of mid-1960s British pop.
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E.
Gagarin's Start
Gagarin's Start is the historic launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome from which Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space and which has since been used for numerous crewed Soyuz missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: The Right Stuff Description of subject: The Right Stuff is a 1983 American historical drama film about the early U.S. space program and the original Mercury 7 astronauts, acclaimed for its direction, performances, and realistic depiction of test pilots and spaceflight.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Right Stuff (1983 film)
this entity surface form:
The Right Stuff (1983 film)
this entity surface form:
The Right Stuff (1983 film)
this entity surface form:
The Right Stuff (1983 film)
subject surface form:
Irwin Winkler
subject surface form:
Scott Glenn
this entity surface form:
The Right Stuff (1983 film)