the Pequod
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The Pequod is the whaling ship in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick," symbolizing obsessive pursuit and doomed ambition.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pequod | 24 |
| Pequod (formerly) | 1 |
| Pequod crew | 1 |
| aboard the Pequod | 1 |
| cabin of the Pequod | 1 |
| sinking of the Pequod | 1 |
| the Pequod canonical | 1 |
| whaling ship Pequod | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505905 — 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 Pequod Context triple: [Moby-Dick, symbol, the Pequod]
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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 Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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D.
The American Claimant
The American Claimant is an 1892 comic novel by Mark Twain that satirizes American aristocratic pretensions and social class through a farcical tale of mistaken identity and inheritance.
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E.
Ishmael
Ishmael is a significant figure in the Abrahamic religions, traditionally regarded as Abraham’s first son and an ancestor of various Arab peoples.
- 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 Pequod Target entity description: The Pequod is the whaling ship in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick," symbolizing obsessive pursuit and doomed ambition.
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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 Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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C.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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D.
The American Claimant
The American Claimant is an 1892 comic novel by Mark Twain that satirizes American aristocratic pretensions and social class through a farcical tale of mistaken identity and inheritance.
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E.
Ishmael
Ishmael is a significant figure in the Abrahamic religions, traditionally regarded as Abraham’s first son and an ancestor of various Arab peoples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Pequod Description of subject: The Pequod is the whaling ship in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick," symbolizing obsessive pursuit and doomed ambition.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Starbuck from Moby-Dick
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