Hornblower
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Hornblower is a British historical drama television series based on C.S. Forester’s novels about Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Horatio Hornblower | 2 |
| Horatio Hornblower series | 2 |
| Hornblower canonical | 2 |
| Horatio Hornblower book series | 1 |
| Horatio Hornblower novels | 1 |
| Hornblower and the Atropos | 1 |
| Hornblower in the West Indies | 1 |
| Lieutenant Hornblower | 1 |
| Lord Hornblower | 1 |
| Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386358 — 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: Hornblower Context triple: [Paul McGann, notableWork, Hornblower]
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A.
Aubrey–Maturin series
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a collection of historical naval novels by Patrick O’Brian that follow Captain Jack Aubrey and physician-intelligence agent Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars.
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B.
Admiral of the Red
Admiral of the Red was one of the highest senior ranks in the Royal Navy’s historical color-based admiralty system, signifying a top-tier fleet command position.
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C.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 historical naval war film, based on Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin novels, that follows a British captain and his crew during the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Admiral of the Blue
Admiral of the Blue was a senior flag rank in the British Royal Navy, historically denoting an admiral commanding squadrons in the blue division of the fleet.
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E.
HMS Temeraire
HMS Temeraire was a famed 98-gun British ship of the line of the Napoleonic era, celebrated for its heroic role alongside HMS Victory and its later immortalization in J. M. W. Turner’s painting "The Fighting Temeraire."
- 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: Hornblower Target entity description: Hornblower is a British historical drama television series based on C.S. Forester’s novels about Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Aubrey–Maturin series
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a collection of historical naval novels by Patrick O’Brian that follow Captain Jack Aubrey and physician-intelligence agent Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars.
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B.
Admiral of the Red
Admiral of the Red was one of the highest senior ranks in the Royal Navy’s historical color-based admiralty system, signifying a top-tier fleet command position.
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C.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 historical naval war film, based on Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin novels, that follows a British captain and his crew during the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Admiral of the Blue
Admiral of the Blue was a senior flag rank in the British Royal Navy, historically denoting an admiral commanding squadrons in the blue division of the fleet.
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E.
HMS Temeraire
HMS Temeraire was a famed 98-gun British ship of the line of the Napoleonic era, celebrated for its heroic role alongside HMS Victory and its later immortalization in J. M. W. Turner’s painting "The Fighting Temeraire."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hornblower Description of subject: Hornblower is a British historical drama television series based on C.S. Forester’s novels about Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Horatio Hornblower
this entity surface form:
Horatio Hornblower series
this entity surface form:
Horatio Hornblower novels
this entity surface form:
Horatio Hornblower
this entity surface form:
Horatio Hornblower book series
this entity surface form:
Horatio Hornblower series
this entity surface form:
Lord Hornblower
this entity surface form:
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
this entity surface form:
Lieutenant Hornblower
this entity surface form:
Hornblower and the Atropos
this entity surface form:
Hornblower in the West Indies