the Locker
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The Locker, often called Davy Jones' Locker, is a legendary nautical afterlife or watery grave where drowned sailors are said to be sent beneath the sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| the Locker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8156293 — 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 Locker Context triple: [Davy Jones, associatedWith, the Locker]
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A.
The Lock
The Lock is a celebrated 1824 landscape painting by English Romantic artist John Constable, depicting rural life along the River Stour with dramatic naturalistic detail.
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B.
Lockout
Lockout is a 2012 science fiction action film starring Guy Pearce as a wrongly convicted ex-CIA agent sent to rescue the U.S. president’s daughter from a violent prison riot in space.
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C.
Crypt Keeper
The Crypt Keeper is a ghoulish, pun-loving horror host best known for introducing and narrating macabre stories in the television series "Tales from the Crypt."
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D.
Teston Lock
Teston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, used to manage river levels and enable boat passage.
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E.
The Luggage Store
"The Luggage Store" is a short story by Ray Bradbury set in his Martian Chronicles universe, exploring human reactions and preparations as tensions rise on Earth.
- 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 Locker Target entity description: The Locker, often called Davy Jones' Locker, is a legendary nautical afterlife or watery grave where drowned sailors are said to be sent beneath the sea.
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A.
The Lock
The Lock is a celebrated 1824 landscape painting by English Romantic artist John Constable, depicting rural life along the River Stour with dramatic naturalistic detail.
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B.
Lockout
Lockout is a 2012 science fiction action film starring Guy Pearce as a wrongly convicted ex-CIA agent sent to rescue the U.S. president’s daughter from a violent prison riot in space.
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C.
Crypt Keeper
The Crypt Keeper is a ghoulish, pun-loving horror host best known for introducing and narrating macabre stories in the television series "Tales from the Crypt."
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D.
Teston Lock
Teston Lock is a navigation lock on the River Medway in Kent, England, used to manage river levels and enable boat passage.
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E.
The Luggage Store
"The Luggage Store" is a short story by Ray Bradbury set in his Martian Chronicles universe, exploring human reactions and preparations as tensions rise on Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
afterlife concept
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mythological location ⓘ nautical legend ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
nautical literature
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pirate lore ⓘ sea stories ⓘ |
| associatedFigure | Davy Jones ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
drowning
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sailors ⓘ seafaring ⓘ shipwrecks ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin |
maritime folklore
ⓘ
sailor superstition ⓘ |
| describedAs |
nautical afterlife
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watery grave ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Davy Jones Locker
ⓘ
linked to:
Davy Jones' Locker
Davy Jones’s Locker ⓘ
linked to:
Davy Jones' Locker
the Locker ⓘ |
| hasConceptualDomain |
death and afterlife
ⓘ
ocean and seafaring ⓘ |
| hasThematicElement |
danger of the sea
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fate of drowned sailors ⓘ supernatural beliefs of sailors ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| locationType | beneath the sea ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | English maritime folklore ⓘ |
| metaphorFor |
being lost at sea
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irretrievable loss ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
afterlife
ⓘ
ghost ship ⓘ underworld ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
death at sea
ⓘ
final resting place for sailors ⓘ peril of the ocean ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early modern period maritime culture ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
nautical slang
ⓘ
naval traditions ⓘ sea shanties ⓘ |
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 Locker Description of subject: The Locker, often called Davy Jones' Locker, is a legendary nautical afterlife or watery grave where drowned sailors are said to be sent beneath the sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.