The Island
E112563
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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Island canonical | 3 |
| The Island (1980 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T945961 — 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 Island Context triple: [Peter Benchley, notableWork, The Island]
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A.
Island Life
Island Life is a seminal 1880 biogeography book by Alfred Russel Wallace that analyzes the distribution of species on islands and its implications for evolution and natural selection.
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B.
The Island of the Pelicans
The Island of the Pelicans is a place name referring to a pelican-inhabited island, known in Spanish as “La Isla de los Alcatraces.”
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C.
Red Skin Island
Red Skin Island is a scenic island within India's Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, known for its clear waters, coral reefs, and opportunities for snorkeling and marine wildlife viewing.
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D.
Runaway Bay
Runaway Bay is a coastal suburb on Queensland’s Gold Coast known for its canals, marinas, and waterfront residential lifestyle.
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E.
Viper Island
Viper Island is a small historic island in the Andaman archipelago, known for its former British-era prison ruins and proximity to Port Blair.
- 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 Island Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Island Life
Island Life is a seminal 1880 biogeography book by Alfred Russel Wallace that analyzes the distribution of species on islands and its implications for evolution and natural selection.
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B.
The Island of the Pelicans
The Island of the Pelicans is a place name referring to a pelican-inhabited island, known in Spanish as “La Isla de los Alcatraces.”
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C.
Red Skin Island
Red Skin Island is a scenic island within India's Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, known for its clear waters, coral reefs, and opportunities for snorkeling and marine wildlife viewing.
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D.
Runaway Bay
Runaway Bay is a coastal suburb on Queensland’s Gold Coast known for its canals, marinas, and waterfront residential lifestyle.
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E.
Viper Island
Viper Island is a small historic island in the Andaman archipelago, known for its former British-era prison ruins and proximity to Port Blair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adventure novel
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novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| author | Peter Benchley ⓘ |
| authorAlsoWrote |
Jaws
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The Deep ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
clash of civilizations
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isolation ⓘ modern-day piracy ⓘ survival ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
adventure fiction
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Island
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Island (1980 film)
|
| hasCategory |
American thriller novels
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Novels by Peter Benchley ⓘ Novels set in the Caribbean ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Blair Maynard ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of a secret pirate society surviving into modern times ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A journalist investigates mysterious disappearances in the Caribbean and discovers a hidden community of modern pirates. ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | journalist ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Caribbean Sea
ⓘ
Caribbean islands ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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 Island Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Island (1980 film)