Peleg
E309737
Peleg is a retired whaling captain and part-owner of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peleg canonical | 2 |
| biblical name "Peleg" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2903750 — 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: Peleg Context triple: [Pequod, hasOwner, Peleg]
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A.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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D.
Jokshan
Jokshan is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Abraham by his wife Keturah.
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E.
Abram
Abram is the middle name of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
- 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: Peleg Target entity description: Peleg is a retired whaling captain and part-owner of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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A.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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D.
Jokshan
Jokshan is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Abraham by his wife Keturah.
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E.
Abram
Abram is the middle name of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ sea captain ⓘ whaling captain ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Moby-Dick ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | literature ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Nantucket ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
blunt
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experienced seaman ⓘ irritable ⓘ practical ⓘ worldly ⓘ |
| coOwnerOf |
Pequod
ⓘ
linked to:
the Pequod
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| createdBy | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| employerOf |
Ahab
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Flask ⓘ Starbuck ⓘ Stubb ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Moby-Dick, chapter 16 "The Ship" ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | novel ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin |
biblical name "Peleg"
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linked to:
Peleg
|
| hasShip |
Pequod
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linked to:
the Pequod
|
| interactsWith |
Ahab
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Bildad ⓘ Ishmael ⓘ Queequeg ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-owning the Pequod in Moby-Dick
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negotiating Ishmael and Queequeg’s voyage on the Pequod ⓘ |
| occupation |
Quaker
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ship owner ⓘ whaling captain ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Bildad ⓘ |
| religiousBackground |
Quaker
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linked to:
Religious Society of Friends
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| roleInWork |
interviewer of Ishmael
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one of the shipowners who hire Ahab ⓘ part-owner of the Pequod ⓘ |
| setting |
Nantucket, Massachusetts
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linked to:
Nantucket
|
| workGenre |
American Romanticism
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adventure fiction ⓘ nautical fiction ⓘ |
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: Peleg Description of subject: Peleg is a retired whaling captain and part-owner of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.