The Boat That Rocked
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The Boat That Rocked is a British comedy film about a fictional pirate radio station broadcasting rock and pop music from a ship in the North Sea during the 1960s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Boat That Rocked canonical | 18 |
| The Boat That Rocked (a.k.a. Pirate Radio) | 1 |
| The Boat That Rocked (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T278765 — 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 Boat That Rocked Context triple: [Richard Curtis, directorOf, The Boat That Rocked]
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A.
Hancock
Hancock is a prominent surname most famously associated with John Hancock, a key figure of the American Revolution and first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Red Shirts
The Red Shirts were white supremacist paramilitary groups in the post–Civil War American South that used violence and intimidation to suppress Black voters and help restore conservative Democratic control after Reconstruction.
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C.
Strike Up the Band
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1940 MGM musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, known for its lively song-and-dance numbers and classic big-band era style.
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D.
The Deep Blue Sea
The Deep Blue Sea is a 1952 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan that explores themes of passion, despair, and unrequited love through the story of a woman trapped in a destructive affair.
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E.
The Walk
The Walk is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis that dramatizes high-wire artist Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
- 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 Boat That Rocked Target entity description: The Boat That Rocked is a British comedy film about a fictional pirate radio station broadcasting rock and pop music from a ship in the North Sea during the 1960s.
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A.
Hancock
Hancock is a prominent surname most famously associated with John Hancock, a key figure of the American Revolution and first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Red Shirts
The Red Shirts were white supremacist paramilitary groups in the post–Civil War American South that used violence and intimidation to suppress Black voters and help restore conservative Democratic control after Reconstruction.
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C.
Strike Up the Band
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1940 MGM musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, known for its lively song-and-dance numbers and classic big-band era style.
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D.
The Deep Blue Sea
The Deep Blue Sea is a 1952 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan that explores themes of passion, despair, and unrequited love through the story of a woman trapped in a destructive affair.
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E.
The Walk
The Walk is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis that dramatizes high-wire artist Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Boat That Rocked Description of subject: The Boat That Rocked is a British comedy film about a fictional pirate radio station broadcasting rock and pop music from a ship in the North Sea during the 1960s.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Boat That Rocked (film)
this entity surface form:
The Boat That Rocked (a.k.a. Pirate Radio)