Davy Jones' Locker
E303057
Davy Jones' Locker is a mythical, otherworldly purgatory of the sea in pirate lore, often depicted as the final resting place for drowned sailors and lost souls.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Davy Jones' Locker canonical | 2 |
| Davy Jones Locker | 1 |
| Davy Jones’s Locker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2850203 — 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: Davy Jones' Locker Context triple: [Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, setIn, Davy Jones' Locker]
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A.
Sirena Deep
Sirena Deep is one of the deepest known points in the world's oceans, located within the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Davy Jones
Davy Jones is the tentacle-faced, cursed captain of the Flying Dutchman and a central supernatural antagonist in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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C.
The Deep
The Deep is a striking futuristic aquarium and marine research center in Kingston upon Hull, England, known for its dramatic architecture and extensive collection of marine life.
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D.
The Deep
The Deep is a 1976 adventure novel by Peter Benchley that follows a young couple who discover dangerous secrets and sunken treasure while diving near Bermuda.
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E.
Calypso Deep
Calypso Deep is the deepest known point in the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Hellenic Trench near Greece.
- 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: Davy Jones' Locker Target entity description: Davy Jones' Locker is a mythical, otherworldly purgatory of the sea in pirate lore, often depicted as the final resting place for drowned sailors and lost souls.
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A.
Sirena Deep
Sirena Deep is one of the deepest known points in the world's oceans, located within the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Davy Jones
Davy Jones is the tentacle-faced, cursed captain of the Flying Dutchman and a central supernatural antagonist in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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C.
The Deep
The Deep is a striking futuristic aquarium and marine research center in Kingston upon Hull, England, known for its dramatic architecture and extensive collection of marine life.
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D.
The Deep
The Deep is a 1976 adventure novel by Peter Benchley that follows a young couple who discover dangerous secrets and sunken treasure while diving near Bermuda.
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E.
Calypso Deep
Calypso Deep is the deepest known point in the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Hellenic Trench near Greece.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
afterlife realm
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mythological place ⓘ nautical folklore concept ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
R. L. Stevenson's works
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sea adventure novels ⓘ various pirate films ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
fear of drowning
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lost ships ⓘ pirate lore ⓘ sailor folklore ⓘ shipwrecks ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | safe harbor ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin |
Western seafaring culture
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maritime tradition ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
abode of lost souls at sea
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final resting place for drowned sailors ⓘ underwater purgatory ⓘ |
| describedAs | mythical, otherworldly purgatory of the sea ⓘ |
| genre |
folklore
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myth ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalAspect | yes ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| linkedBelief |
ocean as gateway to the afterlife
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souls of sailors remain at sea ⓘ |
| locationContext | bottom of the sea ⓘ |
| metaphoricalUse |
any irretrievable loss
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disappearance without return ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
metaphor for inescapable fate at sea
ⓘ
warning to sailors ⓘ |
| realmType |
otherworldly domain
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undersea realm ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Davy Jones
ⓘ
Flying Dutchman ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
death at sea
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doom for sailors ⓘ final resting place for drowned sailors ⓘ the unknown depths of the ocean ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfUsage | at least since the 18th century ⓘ |
| usedIn |
maritime literature
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nautical superstitions ⓘ pirate stories ⓘ popular culture depictions of pirates ⓘ sea shanties ⓘ |
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: Davy Jones' Locker Description of subject: Davy Jones' Locker is a mythical, otherworldly purgatory of the sea in pirate lore, often depicted as the final resting place for drowned sailors and lost souls.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the Locker
linked to: Davy Jones' Locker
subject linked to:
the Locker
linked to: Davy Jones' Locker