Dave Bowman
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Dave Bowman is the astronaut protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," known for his confrontation with the HAL 9000 computer and his enigmatic transformation into the Star Child.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Bowman canonical | 7 |
| David Bowman | 1 |
| Dr. Bowman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4805245 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dave Bowman Context triple: [2001: A Space Odyssey, notableCharacter, Dave Bowman]
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Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
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Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle is the brilliant but doomed scientist who transforms into a human-fly hybrid in David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film "The Fly."
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C.
John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
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D.
Snake Plissken
Snake Plissken is a hardened, one-eyed antihero and former Special Forces soldier turned outlaw from John Carpenter’s dystopian action films "Escape from New York" and "Escape from L.A."
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John Anderton
John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
- 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: Dave Bowman Target entity description: Dave Bowman is the astronaut protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," known for his confrontation with the HAL 9000 computer and his enigmatic transformation into the Star Child.
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A.
Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
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B.
Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle is the brilliant but doomed scientist who transforms into a human-fly hybrid in David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film "The Fly."
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C.
John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
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D.
Snake Plissken
Snake Plissken is a hardened, one-eyed antihero and former Special Forces soldier turned outlaw from John Carpenter’s dystopian action films "Escape from New York" and "Escape from L.A."
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E.
John Anderton
John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronaut
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| affiliation |
United States space program
ⓘ
linked to:
United States civil space program
|
| antagonist | HAL 9000 ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
2001: A Space Odyssey
ⓘ
2010 (film) ⓘ 2010: Odyssey Two ⓘ
linked to:
2010: The Year We Make Contact
2061: Odyssey Three ⓘ 3001: The Final Odyssey ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jupiter monolith
ⓘ
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-1 (TMA-1) ⓘ |
| basedOn | short story The Sentinel ⓘ |
| characterArc | from human astronaut to post-human entity ⓘ |
| characterType | heroic ⓘ |
| colleague |
Frank Poole
ⓘ
HAL 9000 ⓘ |
| createdInYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| creator |
Arthur C. Clarke
ⓘ
Stanley Kubrick ⓘ |
| fate | evolves into a higher form of life ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
film 2001: A Space Odyssey
ⓘ
linked to:
2001: A Space Odyssey
novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ⓘ
linked to:
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | David ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Bowman ⓘ |
| literarySeries |
Space Odyssey series
ⓘ
linked to:
Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey universe
|
| medium |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| mission |
Discovery One mission to Jupiter
ⓘ
Discovery One mission to Saturn ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | reenters Discovery One through emergency airlock without helmet ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
disconnected HAL 9000
ⓘ
transformed into the Star Child ⓘ traveled through the Star Gate ⓘ |
| notableScene | "Open the pod bay doors, HAL" sequence ⓘ |
| occupation | astronaut ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Keir Dullea
ⓘ
Keir Dullea in 2010 (film) ⓘ |
| role |
commanding officer of Discovery One
ⓘ
mission commander ⓘ |
| spacecraft |
Discovery One
ⓘ
linked to:
Discovery One spacecraft
|
| speciesAfterTransformation | Star Child ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence
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human evolution ⓘ man versus machine ⓘ |
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: Dave Bowman Description of subject: Dave Bowman is the astronaut protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," known for his confrontation with the HAL 9000 computer and his enigmatic transformation into the Star Child.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.