The Hunting of the Snark
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The Hunting of the Snark is a nonsensical narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that follows a crew of eccentric characters on a surreal and ultimately futile quest to hunt a mysterious creature called the Snark.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Hunting of the Snark canonical | 5 |
| The Hunting of the Snark (illustrated edition) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2625664 — 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: The Hunting of the Snark Context triple: [Lewis Carroll, notableWork, The Hunting of the Snark]
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A.
Jabberwocky
"Jabberwocky" is a 1977 British fantasy film by Terry Gilliam that offers a darkly comic, surreal take on medieval adventure inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem.
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B.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is Lewis Carroll’s classic 1865 fantasy novel about a young girl’s surreal journey through a whimsical, illogical world populated by peculiar creatures and absurd situations.
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C.
Through the Looking-Glass
"Through the Looking-Glass" is Lewis Carroll’s classic 1871 sequel to "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland," following Alice into a mirror-world of chess pieces, wordplay, and fantastical characters like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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D.
Alice in Wonderland
"Alice in Wonderland" is a classic 1951 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that adapts Lewis Carroll’s whimsical tales of a young girl’s surreal adventures in a nonsensical world.
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E.
The Land of Topsy-Turvy
The Land of Topsy-Turvy is a whimsical, upside-down world in Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree series where normal rules are reversed and everything happens back-to-front.
- 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: The Hunting of the Snark Target entity description: The Hunting of the Snark is a nonsensical narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that follows a crew of eccentric characters on a surreal and ultimately futile quest to hunt a mysterious creature called the Snark.
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A.
Jabberwocky
"Jabberwocky" is a 1977 British fantasy film by Terry Gilliam that offers a darkly comic, surreal take on medieval adventure inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem.
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B.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is Lewis Carroll’s classic 1865 fantasy novel about a young girl’s surreal journey through a whimsical, illogical world populated by peculiar creatures and absurd situations.
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C.
Through the Looking-Glass
"Through the Looking-Glass" is Lewis Carroll’s classic 1871 sequel to "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland," following Alice into a mirror-world of chess pieces, wordplay, and fantastical characters like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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D.
Alice in Wonderland
"Alice in Wonderland" is a classic 1951 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that adapts Lewis Carroll’s whimsical tales of a young girl’s surreal adventures in a nonsensical world.
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E.
The Land of Topsy-Turvy
The Land of Topsy-Turvy is a whimsical, upside-down world in Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree series where normal rules are reversed and everything happens back-to-front.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: The Hunting of the Snark Description of subject: The Hunting of the Snark is a nonsensical narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that follows a crew of eccentric characters on a surreal and ultimately futile quest to hunt a mysterious creature called the Snark.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Hunting of the Snark