The North Water
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The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The North Water canonical | 11 |
| The North Water (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T552473 — 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 North Water Context triple: [See-Saw Films, notableWork, The North Water]
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A.
Farthest North
Farthest North is Fridtjof Nansen’s classic account of his pioneering 1893–1896 Arctic expedition toward the North Pole, blending exploration narrative with scientific observation.
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B.
Gift from the Sea
Gift from the Sea is a reflective, bestselling 1955 book of essays by Anne Morrow Lindbergh that uses seashells and the seashore as metaphors to explore women's lives, solitude, and inner peace.
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C.
Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea is a traditional Marian title that invokes the Virgin Mary as a guiding and protective figure for Christians, especially sailors and travelers.
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D.
At Sea
"At Sea" is a section or component of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel "Islands in the Stream," focusing on the protagonist's experiences during World War II naval patrols.
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E.
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.*
- 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 North Water Target entity description: The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
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A.
Farthest North
Farthest North is Fridtjof Nansen’s classic account of his pioneering 1893–1896 Arctic expedition toward the North Pole, blending exploration narrative with scientific observation.
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B.
Gift from the Sea
Gift from the Sea is a reflective, bestselling 1955 book of essays by Anne Morrow Lindbergh that uses seashells and the seashore as metaphors to explore women's lives, solitude, and inner peace.
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C.
Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea is a traditional Marian title that invokes the Virgin Mary as a guiding and protective figure for Christians, especially sailors and travelers.
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D.
At Sea
"At Sea" is a section or component of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel "Islands in the Stream," focusing on the protagonist's experiences during World War II naval patrols.
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E.
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.*
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 North Water Description of subject: The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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