South by Java Head
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South by Java Head is a World War II-era thriller novel by Alistair MacLean, featuring a perilous sea escape across Japanese-occupied waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South by Java Head canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10808536 — 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: South by Java Head Context triple: [Alistair MacLean, notableWork, South by Java Head]
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A.
Mimosa Rocks
Mimosa Rocks is a coastal rock formation in New South Wales, Australia, known for its striking cliffs and sea stacks within Mimosa Rocks National Park.
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B.
From Sea to Sea
From Sea to Sea is the English rendering of Canada’s national motto, expressing the idea of a nation stretching across the continent from coast to coast.
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C.
By Sea, By Land
"By Sea, By Land" is the English translation of the historic Latin motto of the Royal Marines Commandos, reflecting their amphibious warfare role.
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D.
The Buoys
The Buoys were an American rock band best known for their controversial 1971 hit single "Timothy," written by Rupert Holmes.
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E.
A Teardrop to the Sea
A Teardrop to the Sea is a song by Bon Jovi from their 2015 album "Burning Bridges."
- 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: South by Java Head Target entity description: South by Java Head is a World War II-era thriller novel by Alistair MacLean, featuring a perilous sea escape across Japanese-occupied waters.
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A.
Mimosa Rocks
Mimosa Rocks is a coastal rock formation in New South Wales, Australia, known for its striking cliffs and sea stacks within Mimosa Rocks National Park.
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B.
From Sea to Sea
From Sea to Sea is the English rendering of Canada’s national motto, expressing the idea of a nation stretching across the continent from coast to coast.
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C.
By Sea, By Land
"By Sea, By Land" is the English translation of the historic Latin motto of the Royal Marines Commandos, reflecting their amphibious warfare role.
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D.
The Buoys
The Buoys were an American rock band best known for their controversial 1971 hit single "Timothy," written by Rupert Holmes.
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E.
A Teardrop to the Sea
A Teardrop to the Sea is a song by Bon Jovi from their 2015 album "Burning Bridges."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Alistair MacLean ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
thriller
ⓘ
war fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasConflictType |
man versus man
ⓘ
man versus nature ⓘ military conflict ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverseElement | Japanese occupation ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | standalone novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
perilous sea escape
ⓘ
survival ⓘ war ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | escape by sea ⓘ |
| settingDetail | Japanese-occupied waters ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
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: South by Java Head Description of subject: South by Java Head is a World War II-era thriller novel by Alistair MacLean, featuring a perilous sea escape across Japanese-occupied waters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.