Galactica
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Galactica is a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers Resort themed around virtual reality space travel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Galactica canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11894274 — 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: Galactica Context triple: [Alton Towers Resort, hasAttraction, Galactica]
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A.
Caprica
Caprica is a science fiction television series set in the Battlestar Galactica universe, exploring the origins of the Cylons and the moral implications of advanced artificial intelligence.
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B.
Federation Star
The Federation Star is the seven-pointed star symbol that represents the unity of the states and territories of Australia on the national flag and other official emblems.
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C.
Tin Star
Tin Star is a British-Canadian crime drama television series that follows a former London detective who becomes a small-town police chief in the Canadian Rockies, where his dark past and the town’s corruption collide.
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D.
Tin Star
"Tin Star" is a young adult science fiction novel by Cecil Castellucci that follows a human girl stranded on a remote space station populated mostly by aliens.
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E.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is a science fiction television film and web series set in the Battlestar Galactica universe, depicting a young William Adama’s experiences as a rookie Viper pilot during the First Cylon War.
- 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: Galactica Target entity description: Galactica is a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers Resort themed around virtual reality space travel.
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A.
Caprica
Caprica is a science fiction television series set in the Battlestar Galactica universe, exploring the origins of the Cylons and the moral implications of advanced artificial intelligence.
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B.
Federation Star
The Federation Star is the seven-pointed star symbol that represents the unity of the states and territories of Australia on the national flag and other official emblems.
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C.
Tin Star
Tin Star is a British-Canadian crime drama television series that follows a former London detective who becomes a small-town police chief in the Canadian Rockies, where his dark past and the town’s corruption collide.
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D.
Tin Star
"Tin Star" is a young adult science fiction novel by Cecil Castellucci that follows a human girl stranded on a remote space station populated mostly by aliens.
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E.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is a science fiction television film and web series set in the Battlestar Galactica universe, depicting a young William Adama’s experiences as a rookie Viper pilot during the First Cylon War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flying roller coaster
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roller coaster ⓘ steel roller coaster ⓘ |
| hasCapacity | 1500 riders per hour ⓘ |
| hasCarsPerTrain | 7 ⓘ |
| hasDesigner |
John Wardley
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Werner Stengel ⓘ |
| hasDrop |
20 metres
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66 feet ⓘ |
| hasDuration | approximately 1 minute 40 seconds ⓘ |
| hasElement |
fly-to-lie transition
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inline twist ⓘ lie-to-fly transition ⓘ pretzel loop ⓘ |
| hasHeight |
20 metres
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66 feet ⓘ |
| hasHeightRestriction | 140 cm ⓘ |
| hasInversions | 2 ⓘ |
| hasLength |
2756 feet
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840 metres ⓘ |
| hasLiftType | chain lift hill ⓘ |
| hasManufacturer | Bolliger & Mabillard ⓘ |
| hasMaxSpeed |
47 miles per hour
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75 kilometres per hour ⓘ |
| hasModel | Flying Coaster ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
marketed as the world’s first roller coaster dedicated to virtual reality at its 2016 retheme
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one of the first major B&M flying coasters ⓘ |
| hasRcdbNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| hasRidersPerRow | 4 ⓘ |
| hasRowsPerCar | 1 ⓘ |
| hasSupportColor | grey ⓘ |
| hasTheme | space travel ⓘ |
| hasTrackColor | light blue ⓘ |
| hasTrains | 3 ⓘ |
| hasVirtualRealityFeature | yes ⓘ |
| hasVirtualRealityHeadsets |
Samsung Gear VR (at launch)
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linked to:
Gear VR
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| hasVirtualRealityStatus | VR later made optional and then removed ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alton Towers Resort
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England ⓘ Staffordshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| openedAsAir | 2002 ⓘ |
| openedAsGalactica | 2016 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Merlin Entertainments ⓘ |
| parkSectionTheme | alien and futuristic military theme ⓘ |
| previousName | Air ⓘ |
| sectionOfPark | Forbidden Valley ⓘ |
| themedAround | virtual reality space travel ⓘ |
| usesRestraintType | over-the-shoulder restraint ⓘ |
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: Galactica Description of subject: Galactica is a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers Resort themed around virtual reality space travel.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.