To Fly!
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To Fly! is a pioneering 1976 IMAX documentary film that explores the history and experience of human flight through immersive large-format aerial cinematography.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| To Fly! canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4956780 — 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: To Fly! Context triple: [Graeme Ferguson, notableWork, To Fly!]
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A.
Given to Fly
"Given to Fly" is a soaring, anthemic rock song by American band Pearl Jam, known for its uplifting melody and storytelling lyrics.
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B.
Learn to Fly
"Learn to Fly" is a popular rock song by the Foo Fighters, known for its catchy melody and humorous music video featuring the band in multiple comedic roles on an airplane.
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C.
Learning to Fly
"Learning to Fly" is a 1991 rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its reflective lyrics and enduring popularity as one of Petty's signature tracks.
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D.
Go Fly
Go Fly was a British low-cost airline launched in the late 1990s that operated short-haul European routes before being absorbed into easyJet.
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E.
Bright Flight
Bright Flight is a 2001 indie rock album by Silver Jews, noted for David Berman’s stark, country-tinged songwriting and melancholic, literate lyrics.
- 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: To Fly! Target entity description: To Fly! is a pioneering 1976 IMAX documentary film that explores the history and experience of human flight through immersive large-format aerial cinematography.
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A.
Given to Fly
"Given to Fly" is a soaring, anthemic rock song by American band Pearl Jam, known for its uplifting melody and storytelling lyrics.
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B.
Learn to Fly
"Learn to Fly" is a popular rock song by the Foo Fighters, known for its catchy melody and humorous music video featuring the band in multiple comedic roles on an airplane.
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C.
Learning to Fly
"Learning to Fly" is a 1991 rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its reflective lyrics and enduring popularity as one of Petty's signature tracks.
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D.
Go Fly
Go Fly was a British low-cost airline launched in the late 1990s that operated short-haul European routes before being absorbed into easyJet.
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E.
Bright Flight
Bright Flight is a 2001 indie rock album by Silver Jews, noted for David Berman’s stark, country-tinged songwriting and melancholic, literate lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IMAX film
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documentary film ⓘ short film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
early balloon flight
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modern jet aviation ⓘ pioneer aviation era ⓘ space flight ⓘ |
| director |
Greg MacGillivray
ⓘ
Jim Freeman ⓘ |
| distributor | Smithsonian Institution ⓘ |
| era | 1970s American documentary film ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | National Air and Space Museum IMAX Theater ⓘ |
| exhibitionFormat | IMAX ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique |
extensive aerial photography
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on-location shooting from aircraft ⓘ |
| firstShownAt | National Air and Space Museum ⓘ |
| firstShownIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| genre |
aerial documentary
ⓘ
documentary ⓘ educational film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
awe of aerial perspective
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human aspiration to fly ⓘ technological progress in aviation ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
aviation
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history of human flight ⓘ human flight experience ⓘ |
| musicBy | Bernard Herrmann ⓘ |
| narrator | James Whitmore ⓘ |
| notableFor |
immersive large-format aerial sequences
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pioneering use of IMAX for documentary filmmaking ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum film program ⓘ |
| producer |
Greg MacGillivray
ⓘ
Jim Freeman ⓘ |
| productionCompany | MacGillivray Freeman Films ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | landmark IMAX documentary ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-05-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 27 minutes ⓘ |
| structure | chronological survey of flight history ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general audience
ⓘ
museum visitors ⓘ |
| title | To Fly! ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
IMAX 70mm film
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aerial cinematography ⓘ large-format cinematography ⓘ |
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: To Fly! Description of subject: To Fly! is a pioneering 1976 IMAX documentary film that explores the history and experience of human flight through immersive large-format aerial cinematography.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.