Ice Station Zebra
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Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 Cold War espionage and submarine thriller film, based on Alistair MacLean’s novel, known for its Arctic setting and intrigue involving a downed reconnaissance satellite.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ice Station Zebra canonical | 6 |
| Ice Station Zebra (1968 film) | 1 |
| Ice Station Zebra (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2953658 — 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: Ice Station Zebra Context triple: [Rock Hudson, notableWork, Ice Station Zebra]
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A.
The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 Cold War submarine thriller film, based on Tom Clancy’s novel, that follows a Soviet captain’s attempted defection to the United States with a cutting-edge nuclear submarine.
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B.
Invaders
The Invaders are a World War II-era superhero team in Marvel Comics, featuring characters like Captain America, the Human Torch, and Namor fighting Axis forces.
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C.
Torpedo Moscow
Torpedo Moscow is a historic Russian football club from Moscow known for its traditional rivalry with other major Moscow teams and its roots in the Soviet automotive industry.
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D.
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, known for its environmental themes and Bruce Dern’s portrayal of a botanist protecting Earth’s last surviving plant life in space.
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E.
Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 action-thriller film centered on a high-tech military helicopter used for urban surveillance and combat.
- 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: Ice Station Zebra Target entity description: Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 Cold War espionage and submarine thriller film, based on Alistair MacLean’s novel, known for its Arctic setting and intrigue involving a downed reconnaissance satellite.
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A.
The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 Cold War submarine thriller film, based on Tom Clancy’s novel, that follows a Soviet captain’s attempted defection to the United States with a cutting-edge nuclear submarine.
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B.
Invaders
The Invaders are a World War II-era superhero team in Marvel Comics, featuring characters like Captain America, the Human Torch, and Namor fighting Axis forces.
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C.
Torpedo Moscow
Torpedo Moscow is a historic Russian football club from Moscow known for its traditional rivalry with other major Moscow teams and its roots in the Soviet automotive industry.
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D.
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, known for its environmental themes and Bruce Dern’s portrayal of a botanist protecting Earth’s last surviving plant life in space.
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E.
Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 action-thriller film centered on a high-tech military helicopter used for urban surveillance and combat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ice Station Zebra Description of subject: Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 Cold War espionage and submarine thriller film, based on Alistair MacLean’s novel, known for its Arctic setting and intrigue involving a downed reconnaissance satellite.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ice Station Zebra (1968 film)
this entity surface form:
Ice Station Zebra (novel)