Moby Dick (1956 film)
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Moby Dick (1956 film) is a 1956 adventure drama directed by John Huston, adapting Herman Melville’s novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt for the white whale and starring Gregory Peck as Ahab.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moby Dick (1956 film) canonical | 5 |
| Moby Dick (1930 film) | 1 |
| Moby Dick (1956 film adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379507 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moby Dick (1956 film) Context triple: [Gregory Peck, notableWork, Moby Dick (1956 film)]
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick is Herman Melville’s 1851 epic novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to hunt the white whale, widely regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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B.
The Big Tuna
The Big Tuna is the famous nickname of Bill Parcells, a Hall of Fame NFL head coach known for turning struggling teams into contenders.
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C.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 Disney live-action adventure film adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and iconic portrayal of Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus.
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Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin is a landmark 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, renowned for its innovative montage editing and its influential depiction of the 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian battleship.
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E.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
- 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: Moby Dick (1956 film) Target entity description: Moby Dick (1956 film) is a 1956 adventure drama directed by John Huston, adapting Herman Melville’s novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt for the white whale and starring Gregory Peck as Ahab.
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A.
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick is Herman Melville’s 1851 epic novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to hunt the white whale, widely regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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B.
The Big Tuna
The Big Tuna is the famous nickname of Bill Parcells, a Hall of Fame NFL head coach known for turning struggling teams into contenders.
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C.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 Disney live-action adventure film adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and iconic portrayal of Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus.
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D.
Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin is a landmark 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, renowned for its innovative montage editing and its influential depiction of the 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian battleship.
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E.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Moby Dick (1956 film) Description of subject: Moby Dick (1956 film) is a 1956 adventure drama directed by John Huston, adapting Herman Melville’s novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt for the white whale and starring Gregory Peck as Ahab.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Moby Dick (1956 film)
linked to: Moby Dick (1956 film)