Stella Maris
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Stella Maris is a posthumously published philosophical novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the brilliant, troubled Alicia Western through dialogues in a psychiatric institution, serving as a companion piece to his novel The Passenger.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stella Maris canonical | 12 |
| Stella Maris (1918 film universe) | 1 |
| Stella Maris (2022 novel) | 1 |
| Stella Maris (character) | 1 |
| Stella Maris (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902799 — 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: Stella Maris Context triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Stella Maris]
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A.
Stella Maris
Stella Maris is a traditional Latin title for the Virgin Mary, often invoked by seafarers and associated with guidance and protection.
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B.
The Sea
The Sea is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, known for its minimalist seascape composition and characteristic muted palette.
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C.
Henrietta
Henrietta is a feminine given name of English origin, historically popular in the 18th and 19th centuries and borne by several notable figures.
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D.
Vela
Vela is a southern sky constellation known for containing the Vela Supernova Remnant and several bright stars, and was once part of the larger ancient constellation Argo Navis.
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E.
Stella
Stella is the central character in the British television drama film "Gideon's Daughter," around whom the story's emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
- 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: Stella Maris Target entity description: Stella Maris is a posthumously published philosophical novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the brilliant, troubled Alicia Western through dialogues in a psychiatric institution, serving as a companion piece to his novel The Passenger.
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A.
Stella Maris
Stella Maris is a traditional Latin title for the Virgin Mary, often invoked by seafarers and associated with guidance and protection.
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B.
The Sea
The Sea is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, known for its minimalist seascape composition and characteristic muted palette.
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C.
Henrietta
Henrietta is a feminine given name of English origin, historically popular in the 18th and 19th centuries and borne by several notable figures.
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D.
Vela
Vela is a southern sky constellation known for containing the Vela Supernova Remnant and several bright stars, and was once part of the larger ancient constellation Argo Navis.
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E.
Stella
Stella is the central character in the British television drama film "Gideon's Daughter," around whom the story's emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Stella Maris Description of subject: Stella Maris is a posthumously published philosophical novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the brilliant, troubled Alicia Western through dialogues in a psychiatric institution, serving as a companion piece to his novel The Passenger.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stella Maris
linked to: Stella Maris
linked to: Stella Maris
subject linked to:
Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.
subject linked to:
Alicia Western is Bobby Western’s sister
subject linked to:
Alicia Western is Bobby Western’s sister
linked to: Stella Maris