Jim Hawkins
E137624
Jim Hawkins is the adventurous young protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel "Treasure Island," whose discovery of a treasure map sets the story’s swashbuckling quest in motion.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Hawkins canonical | 40 |
| Jim Hawkins (Muppet Treasure Island) | 1 |
| Jim Hawkins about the black spot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201288 — 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: Jim Hawkins Context triple: [Treasure Island (1934 film), mainCharacter, Jim Hawkins]
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A.
Captain Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow is the eccentric, cunning pirate captain and central antihero of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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B.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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C.
Colonel Jack
"Colonel Jack" is an early 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe that follows the morally complex life and adventures of a London pickpocket who rises through crime, transportation, and eventual reform.
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D.
Alexander Selkirk
Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish sailor famously marooned on a Pacific island in the early 18th century, whose real-life survival story helped inspire Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
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E.
Ralph
Ralph is the given name of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the influential 19th-century American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and central figure of the Transcendentalist movement.
- 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: Jim Hawkins Target entity description: Jim Hawkins is the adventurous young protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel "Treasure Island," whose discovery of a treasure map sets the story’s swashbuckling quest in motion.
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A.
Captain Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow is the eccentric, cunning pirate captain and central antihero of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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B.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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C.
Colonel Jack
"Colonel Jack" is an early 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe that follows the morally complex life and adventures of a London pickpocket who rises through crime, transportation, and eventual reform.
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D.
Alexander Selkirk
Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish sailor famously marooned on a Pacific island in the early 18th century, whose real-life survival story helped inspire Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
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E.
Ralph
Ralph is the given name of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the influential 19th-century American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and central figure of the Transcendentalist movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| ageInWork | adolescent ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Treasure Island ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
adventure
ⓘ
coming of age ⓘ morality and loyalty ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Admiral Benbow Inn
ⓘ
Hispaniola ⓘ Treasure Island (fictional island) ⓘ |
| basedInWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| enemy |
Long John Silver
ⓘ
pirates of Treasure Island ⓘ |
| familyName | Hawkins ⓘ |
| featuredInAdaptation |
film adaptations of Treasure Island
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stage adaptations of Treasure Island ⓘ television adaptations of Treasure Island ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Treasure Island ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1883 ⓘ |
| friend |
Captain Smollett
ⓘ
Dr. Livesey ⓘ Squire Trelawney ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jim ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
brave
ⓘ
curious ⓘ honest ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | adventure fiction ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | archetypal boy hero in pirate fiction ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAction |
discovers Billy Bones’s treasure map
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joins the voyage to Treasure Island ⓘ takes control of the Hispaniola ⓘ |
| occupation | cabin boy ⓘ |
| parent |
Mr. Hawkins
ⓘ
Mrs. Hawkins ⓘ |
| roleInWork | narrator of Treasure Island ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
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: Jim Hawkins Description of subject: Jim Hawkins is the adventurous young protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel "Treasure Island," whose discovery of a treasure map sets the story’s swashbuckling quest in motion.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I’m Still Here
subject linked to:
I’m Still Here
subject linked to:
Driscoll
linked to: Jim Hawkins
subject linked to:
John
subject linked to:
Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island
linked to: Jim Hawkins