Jack Shandy
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Jack Shandy is the roguish pirate protagonist of Tim Powers' fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," navigating a world of magic, voodoo, and high-seas adventure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Shandy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12768109 — 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: Jack Shandy Context triple: [On Stranger Tides, mainCharacterAlias, Jack Shandy]
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A.
Sam Weller
Sam Weller is a quick-witted, resourceful servant and loyal companion to Mr. Pickwick in Charles Dickens’s novel "The Pickwick Papers."
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B.
Ernest Maltravers
Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
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C.
Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley is a British satirical television series created by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris that lampoons early-2000s hipster and media culture through its eponymous, self-obsessed antihero.
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D.
Ralph Milbanke
Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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E.
Mr Harding
Mr Harding is a central character in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, notably "The Warden," where he serves as the gentle, conscientious precentor of Barchester Cathedral.
- 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: Jack Shandy Target entity description: Jack Shandy is the roguish pirate protagonist of Tim Powers' fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," navigating a world of magic, voodoo, and high-seas adventure.
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A.
Sam Weller
Sam Weller is a quick-witted, resourceful servant and loyal companion to Mr. Pickwick in Charles Dickens’s novel "The Pickwick Papers."
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B.
Ernest Maltravers
Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
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C.
Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley is a British satirical television series created by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris that lampoons early-2000s hipster and media culture through its eponymous, self-obsessed antihero.
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D.
Ralph Milbanke
Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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E.
Mr Harding
Mr Harding is a central character in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, notably "The Warden," where he serves as the gentle, conscientious precentor of Barchester Cathedral.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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novel protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | On Stranger Tides ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
piracy
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supernatural events ⓘ |
| characterTrait | roguish ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States (literary origin via author) ⓘ |
| creator | Tim Powers ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | On Stranger Tides ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | On Stranger Tides ⓘ |
| genreContext | fantasy fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Tim Powers ⓘ |
| involvedWith |
high-seas adventure
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magic ⓘ voodoo ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
fantasy novel
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historical fantasy ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | viewpoint character ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | pirate ⓘ |
| setting |
Age of Sail
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Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
magic and sorcery
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moral ambiguity ⓘ seafaring adventure ⓘ transformation and identity ⓘ voodoo and dark rituals ⓘ |
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: Jack Shandy Description of subject: Jack Shandy is the roguish pirate protagonist of Tim Powers' fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," navigating a world of magic, voodoo, and high-seas adventure.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.