The Pirates of Somalia
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The Pirates of Somalia is a biographical drama film that follows a young journalist who infiltrates Somali pirate networks to report on their lives and motivations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Pirates of Somalia canonical | 2 |
| The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9999508 — 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 Pirates of Somalia Context triple: [Barkhad Abdi, appearedInFilm, The Pirates of Somalia]
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A.
Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips is a 2013 biographical thriller film starring Tom Hanks that dramatizes the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates.
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B.
Bone Gulf
Bone Gulf is a coastal gulf in Indonesia that forms part of the coastline of South Sulawesi.
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C.
Furious Gulf
Furious Gulf is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford, part of his Galactic Center series exploring humanity’s struggle against machine intelligences in a far-future universe.
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D.
The Offshore Pirate
"The Offshore Pirate" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920, that blends romance and adventure in a tale of a rebellious young woman and a charming pirate.
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E.
Pirates
Pirates are seafaring outlaws who historically attacked and plundered ships and coastal settlements, often romanticized in popular culture for their rebellious and adventurous image.
- 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 Pirates of Somalia Target entity description: The Pirates of Somalia is a biographical drama film that follows a young journalist who infiltrates Somali pirate networks to report on their lives and motivations.
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A.
Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips is a 2013 biographical thriller film starring Tom Hanks that dramatizes the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates.
-
B.
Bone Gulf
Bone Gulf is a coastal gulf in Indonesia that forms part of the coastline of South Sulawesi.
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C.
Furious Gulf
Furious Gulf is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford, part of his Galactic Center series exploring humanity’s struggle against machine intelligences in a far-future universe.
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D.
The Offshore Pirate
"The Offshore Pirate" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920, that blends romance and adventure in a tale of a rebellious young woman and a charming pirate.
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E.
Pirates
Pirates are seafaring outlaws who historically attacked and plundered ships and coastal settlements, often romanticized in popular culture for their rebellious and adventurous image.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Dabka ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
ⓘ
linked to:
The Pirates of Somalia
book by Jay Bahadur ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Bryan Buckley ⓘ |
| distributor | Echo Bridge (various territories) ⓘ |
| features |
English-language dialogue
ⓘ
Somali-language dialogue ⓘ |
| follows | a young journalist who infiltrates Somali pirate networks ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cross-cultural understanding
ⓘ
risk in journalism ⓘ war reporting ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Pirates of Somalia ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jay Bahadur ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | investigative journalism in conflict zones ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
life in Somalia
ⓘ
motivations of Somali pirates ⓘ |
| productionType | independent film ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | journalist ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bryan Buckley ⓘ |
| setting |
Canada
ⓘ
Somalia ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Al Pacino
ⓘ
Barkhad Abdi ⓘ Edward Gelbinovich ⓘ Evan Peters ⓘ Kiana Madani ⓘ Melanie Griffith ⓘ Philip Ettinger ⓘ Russell Posner ⓘ |
| subject |
Somali piracy
ⓘ
Somali pirates ⓘ journalism ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 21st century ⓘ |
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 Pirates of Somalia Description of subject: The Pirates of Somalia is a biographical drama film that follows a young journalist who infiltrates Somali pirate networks to report on their lives and motivations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Pirates of Somalia