Wake of the Perdido Star
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"Wake of the Perdido Star" is a historical seafaring adventure novel co-written by actor Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan, following a young man's perilous journey across the oceans in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wake of the Perdido Star canonical | 2 |
| The Wake of the Perdido Star | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10543988 — 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: Wake of the Perdido Star Context triple: [Gene Hackman, notableWork, Wake of the Perdido Star]
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Captains of the Sands
Captains of the Sands is a celebrated Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado that portrays the lives of a gang of street children struggling to survive in the city of Salvador.
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B.
Beyond Horizons
Beyond Horizons is the official motto of the Republic of Singapore Navy, expressing its commitment to operating decisively and innovatively across and beyond traditional maritime boundaries.
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C.
The Call of the Stars
"The Call of the Stars" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his collection "The Other Side of the Sky," that explores humanity’s fascination with and journey toward the cosmos.
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D.
The Enemy Stars
"The Enemy Stars" is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson that explores the perils and psychological challenges of interstellar travel through a stranded starship crew.
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E.
A Flag for Sunrise
A Flag for Sunrise is a 1981 political novel by Robert Stone that explores moral ambiguity, revolution, and American involvement in a fictional Central American country.
- 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: Wake of the Perdido Star Target entity description: "Wake of the Perdido Star" is a historical seafaring adventure novel co-written by actor Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan, following a young man's perilous journey across the oceans in the early 19th century.
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A.
Captains of the Sands
Captains of the Sands is a celebrated Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado that portrays the lives of a gang of street children struggling to survive in the city of Salvador.
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B.
Beyond Horizons
Beyond Horizons is the official motto of the Republic of Singapore Navy, expressing its commitment to operating decisively and innovatively across and beyond traditional maritime boundaries.
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C.
The Call of the Stars
"The Call of the Stars" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his collection "The Other Side of the Sky," that explores humanity’s fascination with and journey toward the cosmos.
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D.
The Enemy Stars
"The Enemy Stars" is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson that explores the perils and psychological challenges of interstellar travel through a stranded starship crew.
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E.
A Flag for Sunrise
A Flag for Sunrise is a 1981 political novel by Robert Stone that explores moral ambiguity, revolution, and American involvement in a fictional Central American country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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seafaring adventure novel ⓘ |
| author |
Daniel Lenihan
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Gene Hackman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| features |
long-distance ocean voyage
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mutiny ⓘ sailing ships ⓘ shipboard conflict ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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historical fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class conflict
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coming of age ⓘ naval life ⓘ revenge ⓘ seafaring adventure ⓘ survival at sea ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | young male protagonist ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | perilous journey across the oceans ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | Age of Sail ⓘ |
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: Wake of the Perdido Star Description of subject: "Wake of the Perdido Star" is a historical seafaring adventure novel co-written by actor Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan, following a young man's perilous journey across the oceans in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wake of the Perdido Star