White-Jacket
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White-Jacket is a semi-autobiographical 1850 novel by Herman Melville that critiques life and discipline aboard a U.S. Navy warship.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| White-Jacket canonical | 5 |
| White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268951 — 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: White-Jacket Context triple: [Herman Melville, notableWork, White-Jacket]
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A.
Redburn
Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Herman Melville that follows a young man's coming-of-age voyage as a sailor on a transatlantic ship.
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B.
The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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D.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
The Open Boat
The Open Boat is a classic 1897 short story by Stephen Crane that portrays the harrowing struggle for survival of shipwrecked men adrift in a small dinghy, exploring themes of nature’s indifference and human solidarity.
- 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: White-Jacket Target entity description: White-Jacket is a semi-autobiographical 1850 novel by Herman Melville that critiques life and discipline aboard a U.S. Navy warship.
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A.
Redburn
Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Herman Melville that follows a young man's coming-of-age voyage as a sailor on a transatlantic ship.
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B.
The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.
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C.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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D.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
The Open Boat
The Open Boat is a classic 1897 short story by Stephen Crane that portrays the harrowing struggle for survival of shipwrecked men adrift in a small dinghy, exploring themes of nature’s indifference and human solidarity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| addressesIssue | corporal punishment in the U.S. Navy ⓘ |
| author | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| basedOn | Herman Melville's experiences in the U.S. Navy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| critiquesInstitution | United States Navy ⓘ |
| followedBy | Moby-Dick ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
nautical fiction
ⓘ
sea story ⓘ semi-autobiographical novel ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War
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linked to:
White-Jacket
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| hasApproximateLength | novel-length work ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
naval officers
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sailors ⓘ ship's crew ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | debates over naval corporal punishment ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | print ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
didactic tone
ⓘ
realist detail ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
authority and power at sea
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individual vs. institution ⓘ military discipline ⓘ sailor's life ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Herman Melville's sea narratives ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American Renaissance
ⓘ
American Romanticism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
critique of corporal punishment
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life aboard a U.S. Navy warship ⓘ naval discipline ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of naval life
ⓘ
social and political critique ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| precededBy | Redburn ⓘ |
| protagonist | White-Jacket ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1850 ⓘ |
| publisher | Harper & Brothers ⓘ |
| setting | U.S. Navy warship ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1840s ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 19th century American literature ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: White-Jacket Description of subject: White-Jacket is a semi-autobiographical 1850 novel by Herman Melville that critiques life and discipline aboard a U.S. Navy warship.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: White-Jacket