The Ghost Ship
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The Ghost Ship is a 2002 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere, gruesome opening sequence, and Karl Urban’s supporting role in the doomed salvage crew.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ghost Ship | 4 |
| The Ghost Ship canonical | 3 |
| Ghost Ship (2002 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2147593 — 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 Ghost Ship Context triple: [Karl Urban, notableWork, The Ghost Ship]
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A.
Phantom Ship
Phantom Ship is a small, jagged island in Oregon’s Crater Lake that resembles a ghostly sailing ship and is one of the lake’s most iconic natural rock formations.
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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 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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D.
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.
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E.
Lightship Overfalls
Lightship Overfalls is a historic lightship museum moored in Lewes, Delaware, that once served as a floating lighthouse to aid maritime navigation.
- 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 Ghost Ship Target entity description: The Ghost Ship is a 2002 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere, gruesome opening sequence, and Karl Urban’s supporting role in the doomed salvage crew.
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A.
Phantom Ship
Phantom Ship is a small, jagged island in Oregon’s Crater Lake that resembles a ghostly sailing ship and is one of the lake’s most iconic natural rock formations.
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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 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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D.
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.
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E.
Lightship Overfalls
Lightship Overfalls is a historic lightship museum moored in Lewes, Delaware, that once served as a floating lighthouse to aid maritime navigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| characteristic | features a doomed salvage crew ⓘ |
| containsElement |
gore
ⓘ
graphic violence ⓘ jump scares ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCastMember |
Desmond Harrington
ⓘ
Emily Browning ⓘ Gabriel Byrne ⓘ Isaiah Washington ⓘ Julianna Margulies ⓘ Karl Urban ⓘ Ron Eldard ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
supernatural horror ⓘ |
| hasNotableElement |
eerie atmosphere
ⓘ
gruesome opening sequence ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
ghosts
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greed and corruption ⓘ haunted ship ⓘ supernatural revenge ⓘ |
| KarlUrbanRoleType | supporting role ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeTone |
dark
ⓘ
suspenseful ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A salvage crew discovers a long-lost passenger ship drifting in the Bering Sea and encounters supernatural forces on board. ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| setting |
Bering Sea
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abandoned passenger ship ⓘ |
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 Ghost Ship Description of subject: The Ghost Ship is a 2002 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere, gruesome opening sequence, and Karl Urban’s supporting role in the doomed salvage crew.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ghost Ship
this entity surface form:
Ghost Ship
this entity surface form:
Ghost Ship (2002 film)
this entity surface form:
Ghost Ship (2002 film)
this entity surface form:
Ghost Ship
this entity surface form:
Ghost Ship