Small Island
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"Small Island" is a British television drama adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel about Jamaican immigrants and racial tensions in post-World War II Britain, in which David Oyelowo plays a leading role.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Small Island canonical | 14 |
| "Small Island" | 2 |
| Small Island (novel) | 2 |
| Small Island (BBC television adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1787912 — 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: Small Island Context triple: [David Oyelowo, notableWork, Small Island]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
The Unspoiled Queen of the Caribbean
The Unspoiled Queen of the Caribbean is a marketing nickname for Saba, a small Dutch Caribbean island renowned for its pristine natural environment, lush volcanic landscapes, and excellent diving.
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E.
Cat Island
Cat Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its forested landscape and relatively undeveloped, natural shoreline.
- 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: Small Island Target entity description: "Small Island" is a British television drama adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel about Jamaican immigrants and racial tensions in post-World War II Britain, in which David Oyelowo plays a leading role.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
The Unspoiled Queen of the Caribbean
The Unspoiled Queen of the Caribbean is a marketing nickname for Saba, a small Dutch Caribbean island renowned for its pristine natural environment, lush volcanic landscapes, and excellent diving.
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E.
Cat Island
Cat Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its forested landscape and relatively undeveloped, natural shoreline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Small Island Description of subject: "Small Island" is a British television drama adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel about Jamaican immigrants and racial tensions in post-World War II Britain, in which David Oyelowo plays a leading role.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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