Moby Dick (1930 film)
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Moby Dick (1930 film) is a pre-Code adventure drama adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel, starring John Barrymore as the obsessed whaling captain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moby Dick (1930 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6208471 — 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: Moby Dick (1930 film) Context triple: [John Barrymore, notableWork, Moby Dick (1930 film)]
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A.
Moby Dick (1956 film)
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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B.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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C.
Whalers
Whalers was the short name of the New England Whalers, a former professional ice hockey team that played in the World Hockey Association before joining the NHL as the Hartford Whalers.
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D.
The African Queen
The African Queen is a classic 1951 adventure film directed by John Huston, best known for pairing Katharine Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in a World War I–era river journey through German East Africa.
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E.
Barbary Shore
Barbary Shore is a 1951 novel by Norman Mailer that explores postwar American disillusionment and political paranoia through the story of an amnesiac veteran living in a Brooklyn boarding house.
- 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 (1930 film) Target entity description: Moby Dick (1930 film) is a pre-Code adventure drama adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel, starring John Barrymore as the obsessed whaling captain.
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A.
Moby Dick (1956 film)
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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B.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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C.
Whalers
Whalers was the short name of the New England Whalers, a former professional ice hockey team that played in the World Hockey Association before joining the NHL as the Hartford Whalers.
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D.
The African Queen
The African Queen is a classic 1951 adventure film directed by John Huston, best known for pairing Katharine Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in a World War I–era river journey through German East Africa.
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E.
Barbary Shore
Barbary Shore is a 1951 novel by Norman Mailer that explores postwar American disillusionment and political paranoia through the story of an amnesiac veteran living in a Brooklyn boarding house.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Moby-Dick ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Captain Ahab ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| distributor |
Warner Bros.
ⓘ
linked to:
Warner Bros. Pictures
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| genre |
adventure
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasSetting | at sea ⓘ |
| hasSourceMaterial | novel ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter |
Moby Dick
ⓘ
linked to:
Moby-Dick
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| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
American pre-Code cinema
ⓘ
linked to:
Pre-Code Hollywood
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| portraysFictionalWhale |
Moby Dick
ⓘ
linked to:
Moby-Dick
|
| productionCompany |
Warner Bros.
ⓘ
linked to:
Warner Bros. Pictures
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| releaseYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| setIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| starring | John Barrymore ⓘ |
| subject |
obsession
ⓘ
whaling ⓘ |
| title |
Moby Dick
ⓘ
linked to:
Moby-Dick
|
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 (1930 film) Description of subject: Moby Dick (1930 film) is a pre-Code adventure drama adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel, starring John Barrymore as the obsessed whaling captain.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John