Castaway (1986 film)
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Castaway (1986 film) is a British drama directed by Nicolas Roeg, based on Lucy Irvine’s memoir about living on a remote tropical island with a stranger for a year.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Castaway (1986 film) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2688240 — 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: Castaway (1986 film) Context triple: [Allan Scott, notableWork, Castaway (1986 film)]
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A.
Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 survival drama film starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx executive stranded alone on a deserted island, directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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B.
The Bounty
The Bounty is a 1984 historical drama film retelling the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty, featuring Edward Fox among its ensemble cast.
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C.
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 disaster film about a luxury ocean liner capsized by a tsunami, following a group of survivors struggling to escape the overturned ship.
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D.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty is a classic 1935 adventure drama film depicting the famous 18th-century naval mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty, widely known for its performances and enduring impact on seafaring cinema.
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E.
Deliverance
Deliverance was a ship constructed by the survivors of the 1609 Sea Venture wreck on Bermuda to continue their journey to the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
- 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: Castaway (1986 film) Target entity description: Castaway (1986 film) is a British drama directed by Nicolas Roeg, based on Lucy Irvine’s memoir about living on a remote tropical island with a stranger for a year.
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A.
Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 survival drama film starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx executive stranded alone on a deserted island, directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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B.
The Bounty
The Bounty is a 1984 historical drama film retelling the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty, featuring Edward Fox among its ensemble cast.
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C.
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 disaster film about a luxury ocean liner capsized by a tsunami, following a group of survivors struggling to escape the overturned ship.
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D.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty is a classic 1935 adventure drama film depicting the famous 18th-century naval mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty, widely known for its performances and enduring impact on seafaring cinema.
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E.
Deliverance
Deliverance was a ship constructed by the survivors of the 1609 Sea Venture wreck on Bermuda to continue their journey to the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Castaway (1986 film) Description of subject: Castaway (1986 film) is a British drama directed by Nicolas Roeg, based on Lucy Irvine’s memoir about living on a remote tropical island with a stranger for a year.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Castaway