SS Virginian
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SS Virginian is the fictional transatlantic ocean liner on which the pianist protagonist lives his entire life in the film "The Legend of 1900."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS Virginian canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8449525 — 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: SS Virginian Context triple: [The Legend of 1900, setOn, SS Virginian]
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A.
SS Emancipation
SS Emancipation was a ship employed by the U.S. government during Operation Wetback in the 1950s to transport Mexican nationals deported from the United States.
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B.
USS Chesapeake
USS Chesapeake was a United States Navy frigate active during the early 19th century, best known for its role in the War of 1812 and its capture by the British HMS Shannon.
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C.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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D.
USS Monitor
The USS Monitor was a pioneering Union ironclad warship of the American Civil War, famed for its revolutionary turreted design and its 1862 battle against the CSS Virginia (Merrimack).
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E.
SS Yarmouth
SS Yarmouth was a steamship operated by Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line, notable for its role in the early 1920s Black nationalist and Pan-African shipping enterprise.
- 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: SS Virginian Target entity description: SS Virginian is the fictional transatlantic ocean liner on which the pianist protagonist lives his entire life in the film "The Legend of 1900."
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A.
SS Emancipation
SS Emancipation was a ship employed by the U.S. government during Operation Wetback in the 1950s to transport Mexican nationals deported from the United States.
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B.
USS Chesapeake
USS Chesapeake was a United States Navy frigate active during the early 19th century, best known for its role in the War of 1812 and its capture by the British HMS Shannon.
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C.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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D.
USS Monitor
The USS Monitor was a pioneering Union ironclad warship of the American Civil War, famed for its revolutionary turreted design and its 1862 battle against the CSS Virginia (Merrimack).
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E.
SS Yarmouth
SS Yarmouth was a steamship operated by Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line, notable for its role in the early 1920s Black nationalist and Pan-African shipping enterprise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional ocean liner
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fictional vehicle ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Legend of 1900
ⓘ
linked to:
Legend of 1900
|
| associatedTheme |
art and confinement
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life at sea ⓘ refusal to leave one’s world ⓘ |
| basedOn | typical early 20th-century transatlantic liner ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Italy ⓘ |
| depictedAs | large luxury liner ⓘ |
| directorOfWorkItAppearsIn | Giuseppe Tornatore ⓘ |
| featureInPlot |
birthplace of 1900
ⓘ
lifelong home of 1900 ⓘ location of piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton ⓘ location of piano performances by 1900 ⓘ site of 1900's final decision not to disembark ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | does not exist in reality ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkItAppearsIn |
drama film
ⓘ
music film ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitleOfWorkItAppearsIn | La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano ⓘ |
| hasClass | passenger liner ⓘ |
| hasCrewMember |
Danny Boodmann
ⓘ
Max Tooney ⓘ |
| hasCrewRole |
boilerman
ⓘ
ship’s band pianist ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
first-class salons
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grand piano in the ballroom ⓘ steerage compartments ⓘ |
| hasFate | eventually destroyed with explosives in the film’s story ⓘ |
| hasPassenger | Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon 1900 ⓘ |
| hasResident | Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon 1900 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkItAppearsIn |
English
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| modeOfPropulsion | steamship (implied) ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
closed world setting
ⓘ
symbol of infinite possibility ⓘ symbol of isolation ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary setting ⓘ |
| notableResident | Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon 1900 ⓘ |
| operatingArea | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| route | transatlantic route ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
| usedFor | transatlantic passenger transport ⓘ |
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: SS Virginian Description of subject: SS Virginian is the fictional transatlantic ocean liner on which the pianist protagonist lives his entire life in the film "The Legend of 1900."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.