island of the Wild Things
E1045639
The island of the Wild Things is the remote, fantastical place where the monstrous yet childlike Wild Things live and where Max travels to become their king in Maurice Sendak’s "Where the Wild Things Are."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Where the Wild Things Are universe | 4 |
| island of the Wild Things canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507830 — 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: island of the Wild Things Context triple: [Carol (Where the Wild Things Are character), homeLocation, island of the Wild Things]
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A.
The Joyous Island
The Joyous Island is the English title of Claude Debussy’s celebrated solo piano piece "L’isle joyeuse," known for its shimmering textures and exuberant, impressionistic character.
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B.
Infant Island
Infant Island is a fictional, remote Pacific island in the Godzilla and Mothra film series, known as the sacred home of the giant moth kaiju Mothra and her tiny priestesses.
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C.
The Island
The Island is a 2005 science fiction thriller film directed by Michael Bay that explores themes of human cloning, identity, and corporate ethics.
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D.
The Island
The Island is a renowned anti-apartheid play co-written by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, set in a prison resembling Robben Island and exploring themes of oppression, resistance, and human dignity.
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E.
The Island
The Island is a 1979 thriller novel by Peter Benchley that follows a journalist who uncovers a hidden community of modern-day pirates in the Caribbean.
- 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: island of the Wild Things Target entity description: The island of the Wild Things is the remote, fantastical place where the monstrous yet childlike Wild Things live and where Max travels to become their king in Maurice Sendak’s "Where the Wild Things Are."
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A.
The Joyous Island
The Joyous Island is the English title of Claude Debussy’s celebrated solo piano piece "L’isle joyeuse," known for its shimmering textures and exuberant, impressionistic character.
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B.
Infant Island
Infant Island is a fictional, remote Pacific island in the Godzilla and Mothra film series, known as the sacred home of the giant moth kaiju Mothra and her tiny priestesses.
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C.
The Island
The Island is a 2005 science fiction thriller film directed by Michael Bay that explores themes of human cloning, identity, and corporate ethics.
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D.
The Island
The Island is a renowned anti-apartheid play co-written by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, set in a prison resembling Robben Island and exploring themes of oppression, resistance, and human dignity.
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E.
The Island
The Island is a 1979 thriller novel by Peter Benchley that follows a journalist who uncovers a hidden community of modern-day pirates in the Caribbean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional island
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fictional location ⓘ setting in children’s literature ⓘ |
| accessedBy | Max’s imaginary sea voyage ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
Where the Wild Things Are (2009 film)
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linked to:
film Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
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| appearsInMedium | picture book ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Where the Wild Things Are ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacterArc | Max’s emotional journey ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Max’s home ⓘ |
| creator | Maurice Sendak ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | iconic setting in modern children’s literature ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
remote island
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wild landscape ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Where the Wild Things Are (1963 picture book) ⓘ |
| genreContext |
children’s fantasy
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surreal fantasy ⓘ |
| governedBy | Max ⓘ |
| governedByTitle | King of all Wild Things ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | Wild Things ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Where the Wild Things Are fictional universe ⓘ |
| mediumOfDepiction | illustrations by Maurice Sendak ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
place where Max becomes king
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place where Max learns about loneliness ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary setting of Max’s adventure ⓘ |
| notableEvent | wild rumpus ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
childhood imagination
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escape from home ⓘ unruly emotions ⓘ |
| targetAudienceContext | children ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Max ⓘ |
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: island of the Wild Things Description of subject: The island of the Wild Things is the remote, fantastical place where the monstrous yet childlike Wild Things live and where Max travels to become their king in Maurice Sendak’s "Where the Wild Things Are."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Carol in Where the Wild Things Are
linked to: island of the Wild Things
linked to: island of the Wild Things
linked to: island of the Wild Things