pirate Captain Kidd
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Pirate Captain Kidd is a legendary 17th-century Scottish privateer-turned-pirate whose reputed buried treasure has inspired numerous tales of adventure and mystery.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Kidd | 3 |
| pirate Captain Kidd canonical | 1 |
| voyages of Captain William Kidd | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1931162 — 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: pirate Captain Kidd Context triple: [The Gold-Bug, involvesCharacter, pirate Captain Kidd]
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A.
pirate Thomas Veale
Pirate Thomas Veale is a legendary 17th-century buccaneer from New England folklore, reputed to have hidden his treasure in the caves beneath what is now known as Dungeon Rock in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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B.
Blackbeard
Blackbeard was a notorious early 18th-century English pirate, famed for his fearsome appearance and raids in the Caribbean and along the American colonial coast.
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C.
Pirates
Pirates are seafaring outlaws who historically attacked and plundered ships and coastal settlements, often romanticized in popular culture for their rebellious and adventurous image.
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D.
The Pirate
The Pirate is an 1822 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, blending romance, adventure, and local folklore around the figure of a mysterious seafarer.
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E.
The Pirate
The Pirate is a romantic musical comedy film best known for its vibrant Technicolor production and the iconic pairing of Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
- 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: pirate Captain Kidd Target entity description: Pirate Captain Kidd is a legendary 17th-century Scottish privateer-turned-pirate whose reputed buried treasure has inspired numerous tales of adventure and mystery.
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A.
pirate Thomas Veale
Pirate Thomas Veale is a legendary 17th-century buccaneer from New England folklore, reputed to have hidden his treasure in the caves beneath what is now known as Dungeon Rock in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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B.
Blackbeard
Blackbeard was a notorious early 18th-century English pirate, famed for his fearsome appearance and raids in the Caribbean and along the American colonial coast.
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C.
Pirates
Pirates are seafaring outlaws who historically attacked and plundered ships and coastal settlements, often romanticized in popular culture for their rebellious and adventurous image.
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D.
The Pirate
The Pirate is an 1822 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, blending romance, adventure, and local folklore around the figure of a mysterious seafarer.
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E.
The Pirate
The Pirate is a romantic musical comedy film best known for its vibrant Technicolor production and the iconic pairing of Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: pirate Captain Kidd Description of subject: Pirate Captain Kidd is a legendary 17th-century Scottish privateer-turned-pirate whose reputed buried treasure has inspired numerous tales of adventure and mystery.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
pirate Captain Kidd
linked to: pirate Captain Kidd
subject linked to:
Earl of Bellomont
linked to: pirate Captain Kidd
linked to: pirate Captain Kidd
linked to: pirate Captain Kidd