Carl
E190426
Carl is a central character in the British comedy film "The Boat That Rocked," portrayed as a young man who joins a pirate radio ship in the 1960s and comes of age amid its rebellious DJs and rock music culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carl canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678357 — 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: Carl Context triple: [The Boat That Rocked, notableCharacter, Carl]
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A.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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B.
Carl
Carl is the given name of the 19th-century German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, renowned for his foundational work in elliptic functions and other areas of mathematics.
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C.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Charles I Louis, the 17th-century Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire.
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D.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
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Charlie
Charlie is the fictional Boston subway rider in the folk song "Charlie on the MTA," known for being unable to get off the train because he lacks the fare to exit.
- 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: Carl Target entity description: Carl is a central character in the British comedy film "The Boat That Rocked," portrayed as a young man who joins a pirate radio ship in the 1960s and comes of age amid its rebellious DJs and rock music culture.
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A.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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B.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Charles I Louis, the 17th-century Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire.
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C.
Carl
Carl is the given name of the 19th-century German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, renowned for his foundational work in elliptic functions and other areas of mathematics.
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D.
Charlie
Charlie is the fictional Boston subway rider in the folk song "Charlie on the MTA," known for being unable to get off the train because he lacks the fare to exit.
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E.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Boat That Rocked ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
pirate radio
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rock music culture ⓘ |
| characterArc | coming of age ⓘ |
| connectedTo | rock and roll music ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| experiences |
personal growth
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romantic encounters ⓘ sexual awakening ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Boat That Rocked universe ⓘ |
| genreContext | comedy film ⓘ |
| joins | pirate radio ship ⓘ |
| mediumOfBroadcast | radio ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | audience surrogate ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| participatesIn | life aboard pirate radio ship ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | young man ⓘ |
| portrayedInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageContext | English ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | North Sea radio ship ⓘ |
| storySettingTime | 1960s ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | rebellious DJs ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
counterculture
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friendship ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ youth rebellion ⓘ |
| workGenre | British comedy ⓘ |
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: Carl Description of subject: Carl is a central character in the British comedy film "The Boat That Rocked," portrayed as a young man who joins a pirate radio ship in the 1960s and comes of age amid its rebellious DJs and rock music culture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.