Hark Upon the Gale
E132418
Hark Upon the Gale is the traditional English motto of the College of William & Mary, evoking the school’s historic maritime and colonial heritage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hark Upon the Gale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1153685 — 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: Hark Upon the Gale Context triple: [College of William & Mary, motto, Hark Upon the Gale]
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A.
The Sea Lady
The Sea Lady is a 1902 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells that satirically explores Edwardian society through the disruptive arrival of a mysterious mermaid.
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B.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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D.
The Storm
"The Storm" is a short story by American author Kate Chopin that explores themes of passion, infidelity, and female desire in the context of a brief extramarital encounter during a Louisiana thunderstorm.
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E.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
- 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: Hark Upon the Gale Target entity description: Hark Upon the Gale is the traditional English motto of the College of William & Mary, evoking the school’s historic maritime and colonial heritage.
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A.
The Sea Lady
The Sea Lady is a 1902 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells that satirically explores Edwardian society through the disruptive arrival of a mysterious mermaid.
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B.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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D.
The Storm
"The Storm" is a short story by American author Kate Chopin that explores themes of passion, infidelity, and female desire in the context of a brief extramarital encounter during a Louisiana thunderstorm.
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E.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language motto
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college motto ⓘ |
| associatedWith | College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| evokes |
colonial heritage
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maritime heritage ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mottoOf | College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| partOf | symbolic identity of the College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| refersTo |
sea travel
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wind ⓘ |
| theme |
exploration
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heritage ⓘ seafaring ⓘ |
| usedBy |
alumni of the College of William & Mary
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faculty of the College of William & Mary ⓘ students of the College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| usedIn |
College of William & Mary ceremonies
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College of William & Mary traditions ⓘ |
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: Hark Upon the Gale Description of subject: Hark Upon the Gale is the traditional English motto of the College of William & Mary, evoking the school’s historic maritime and colonial heritage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.