The Philadelphia Experiment
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The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 science fiction film about a secret U.S. Navy experiment in the 1940s that allegedly causes a warship to vanish and sends two sailors forward in time.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Philadelphia Experiment canonical | 8 |
| The Philadelphia Experiment II | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5143181 — 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 Philadelphia Experiment Context triple: [Conrad Buff IV, edited, The Philadelphia Experiment]
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A.
Brodeck’s Report
Brodeck’s Report is a dark, allegorical novel by Philippe Claudel that explores guilt, memory, and collective responsibility in a small village scarred by war.
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B.
Slan
Slan is a classic 1940 science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt about a persecuted race of telepathic mutants, often cited as a landmark of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
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C.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is a 1956 American science fiction film known for its iconic stop-motion alien spacecraft effects and classic Cold War-era invasion storyline.
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D.
Sky Witness
Sky Witness is a British pay television channel from Sky that primarily broadcasts crime dramas, medical procedurals, and other US-imported series.
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E.
Hall C experimental program
The Hall C experimental program is a series of high-precision nuclear and particle physics experiments conducted at Jefferson Lab to study the structure of nucleons and nuclei using electron scattering.
- 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 Philadelphia Experiment Target entity description: The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 science fiction film about a secret U.S. Navy experiment in the 1940s that allegedly causes a warship to vanish and sends two sailors forward in time.
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A.
Brodeck’s Report
Brodeck’s Report is a dark, allegorical novel by Philippe Claudel that explores guilt, memory, and collective responsibility in a small village scarred by war.
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B.
Slan
Slan is a classic 1940 science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt about a persecuted race of telepathic mutants, often cited as a landmark of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
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C.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is a 1956 American science fiction film known for its iconic stop-motion alien spacecraft effects and classic Cold War-era invasion storyline.
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D.
Sky Witness
Sky Witness is a British pay television channel from Sky that primarily broadcasts crime dramas, medical procedurals, and other US-imported series.
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E.
Hall C experimental program
The Hall C experimental program is a series of high-precision nuclear and particle physics experiments conducted at Jefferson Lab to study the structure of nucleons and nuclei using electron scattering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 Philadelphia Experiment Description of subject: The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 science fiction film about a secret U.S. Navy experiment in the 1940s that allegedly causes a warship to vanish and sends two sailors forward in time.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Philadelphia Experiment
linked to: The Philadelphia Experiment
linked to: The Philadelphia Experiment