Quint
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Quint is the grizzled, obsessive shark hunter in the film "Jaws," known for his monologue about the USS Indianapolis and his fatal showdown with the great white shark.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quint canonical | 9 |
| Quint (character in Peter Benchley novel "Jaws") | 1 |
| Quint the shark hunter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T167468 — 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: Quint Context triple: [Jaws, character, Quint]
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A.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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B.
Max
Max is a masculine given name commonly used in German- and English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Maximilian or Maxwell.
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C.
Max
Max is a subscription-based streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery that offers a wide range of films, series, and original programming.
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D.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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E.
Poike
Poike is one of the three main extinct volcanic cones that form the triangular shape of Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Quint Target entity description: Quint is the grizzled, obsessive shark hunter in the film "Jaws," known for his monologue about the USS Indianapolis and his fatal showdown with the great white shark.
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A.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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B.
Max
Max is a masculine given name commonly used in German- and English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Maximilian or Maxwell.
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C.
Max
Max is a subscription-based streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery that offers a wide range of films, series, and original programming.
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D.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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E.
Poike
Poike is one of the three main extinct volcanic cones that form the triangular shape of Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| allyOf |
Martin Brody
ⓘ
Matt Hooper ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jaws ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Jaws ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise | Jaws franchise ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Quint (character in Peter Benchley novel "Jaws")
ⓘ
linked to:
Quint
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| characterTrait |
cynical
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grizzled ⓘ obsessive ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| creator | Peter Benchley ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | iconic shark-hunter archetype in cinema ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed by great white shark ⓘ |
| deathScene | aboard the Orca ⓘ |
| drinkingHabit | heavy drinker ⓘ |
| enemyOf | great white shark in Jaws ⓘ |
| eraOfFictionalActivity | 1970s ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfAppearance | Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
horror
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Jaws (1975 film)
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linked to:
Jaws
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| homeLocation |
Amity Island (implied)
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linked to:
Amity Island
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| languageOfPortrayal | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
mentor-figure with tragic flaw
ⓘ
shark-hunting expert ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | USS Indianapolis monologue ⓘ |
| notableQuote |
"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women."
ⓘ
"You know the thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes." ⓘ |
| notableScene |
comparing scars with Hooper and Brody
ⓘ
singing sea shanties aboard the Orca ⓘ |
| occupation |
fisherman
ⓘ
shark hunter ⓘ |
| owns |
Orca (boat)
ⓘ
linked to:
Orca (Quint's boat)
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| personality | vengeful toward sharks ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Robert Shaw ⓘ |
| servedOn |
USS Indianapolis (in character backstory)
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linked to:
USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
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| setting |
Amity Island vicinity
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linked to:
Amity Island
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| species | human ⓘ |
| vehicle |
Orca (boat)
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linked to:
Orca (Quint's boat)
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| warService | World War II ⓘ |
| weaponUsed |
harpoon
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rifle ⓘ |
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: Quint Description of subject: Quint is the grizzled, obsessive shark hunter in the film "Jaws," known for his monologue about the USS Indianapolis and his fatal showdown with the great white shark.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Quint