The Spanish Main
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The Spanish Main is a 1945 swashbuckling adventure film set in the Caribbean, known for its tale of piracy, romance, and high-seas action.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spanish Main | 3 |
| The Spanish Main canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4097175 — 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 Spanish Main Context triple: [Nancy Gates, notableWork, The Spanish Main]
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A.
Faro a Colón
Faro a Colón is a massive cross-shaped monument and mausoleum in Santo Domingo that commemorates Christopher Columbus and serves as a museum and cultural landmark.
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B.
Tortuga
Tortuga is a minor but memorable drug cartel informant in the TV series "Breaking Bad," known for his gruesome fate in a tortoise-bomb scene.
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C.
Buccaneer Bay
Buccaneer Bay is a pirate-themed children's water play area and attraction at the Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast water park in Australia.
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D.
Portobelo
Portobelo is a historic Caribbean port town in present-day Panama that served as a key Spanish colonial hub for shipping South American silver and goods to Europe.
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E.
Panamá la Vieja
Panamá la Vieja is the archaeological site of the original 16th-century Spanish settlement that became the first iteration of Panama City and one of the earliest European cities on the Pacific coast of the Americas.
- 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 Spanish Main Target entity description: The Spanish Main is a 1945 swashbuckling adventure film set in the Caribbean, known for its tale of piracy, romance, and high-seas action.
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A.
Faro a Colón
Faro a Colón is a massive cross-shaped monument and mausoleum in Santo Domingo that commemorates Christopher Columbus and serves as a museum and cultural landmark.
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B.
Tortuga
Tortuga is a minor but memorable drug cartel informant in the TV series "Breaking Bad," known for his gruesome fate in a tortoise-bomb scene.
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C.
Buccaneer Bay
Buccaneer Bay is a pirate-themed children's water play area and attraction at the Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast water park in Australia.
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D.
Portobelo
Portobelo is a historic Caribbean port town in present-day Panama that served as a key Spanish colonial hub for shipping South American silver and goods to Europe.
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E.
Panamá la Vieja
Panamá la Vieja is the archaeological site of the original 16th-century Spanish settlement that became the first iteration of Panama City and one of the earliest European cities on the Pacific coast of the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adventure film
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film ⓘ swashbuckler film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Aeneas MacKenzie ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy |
Contessa Francesca – Maureen O'Hara
ⓘ
Don Alvarado – Walter Slezak ⓘ Paul Henreid ⓘ
surface form:
Laurent Van Horn – Paul Henreid
|
| cinematographyBy | George Barnes ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Frank Borzage ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical film print ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Frederic Knudtson ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
romance film ⓘ swashbuckler film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
piracy
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Contessa Francesca
ⓘ
Laurent Van Horn ⓘ |
| musicBy | Roy Webb ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
Caribbean ports
ⓘ
pirate ship ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high-seas action sequences
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lavish Technicolor photography ⓘ romantic swashbuckling storyline ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Hollywood swashbuckler film tradition ⓘ |
| producer | Frank Borzage ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1945-09-26 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
George Worthing Yates
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Herman J. Mankiewicz ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| setInRegion | Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| starring |
Barton MacLane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Binnie Barnes ⓘ Fritz Leiber Sr. ⓘ
surface form:
Fritz Leiber
J. Edward Bromberg NERFINISHED ⓘ John Emery ⓘ Maureen O'Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Gates NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Henreid ⓘ Walter Slezak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Spanish Main Description of subject: The Spanish Main is a 1945 swashbuckling adventure film set in the Caribbean, known for its tale of piracy, romance, and high-seas action.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spanish Main
this entity surface form:
Spanish Main
subject surface form:
Sack of Panama by Henry Morgan
this entity surface form:
Spanish Main