Tongues of Serpents
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Tongues of Serpents is a historical fantasy novel in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, following dragon captain William Laurence’s exile and adventures in colonial Australia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tongues of Serpents canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4666545 — 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: Tongues of Serpents Context triple: [Naomi Novik, notableWork, Tongues of Serpents]
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A.
Serpent’s Mouth
Serpent’s Mouth is a narrow strait between Trinidad and Venezuela that forms the southern entrance to the Gulf of Paria from the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Tongue of the Unseen
Tongue of the Unseen is an honorific epithet for the Persian poet Hafez, highlighting his mystical eloquence and ability to give voice to hidden spiritual truths.
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C.
Gothic Serpent
Gothic Serpent was the codename for the 1993 U.S. special operations mission in Mogadishu, Somalia, that led to the Battle of Mogadishu depicted in "Black Hawk Down."
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D.
World Serpent
The World Serpent is a colossal sea serpent from Norse mythology that encircles the earth and is fated to battle Thor during Ragnarök.
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E.
Dragon's Teeth
"Dragon's Teeth" is a 1942 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Upton Sinclair that continues his Lanny Budd series, depicting the rise of Nazism in Europe.
- 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: Tongues of Serpents Target entity description: Tongues of Serpents is a historical fantasy novel in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, following dragon captain William Laurence’s exile and adventures in colonial Australia.
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A.
Serpent’s Mouth
Serpent’s Mouth is a narrow strait between Trinidad and Venezuela that forms the southern entrance to the Gulf of Paria from the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Tongue of the Unseen
Tongue of the Unseen is an honorific epithet for the Persian poet Hafez, highlighting his mystical eloquence and ability to give voice to hidden spiritual truths.
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C.
Gothic Serpent
Gothic Serpent was the codename for the 1993 U.S. special operations mission in Mogadishu, Somalia, that led to the Battle of Mogadishu depicted in "Black Hawk Down."
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D.
World Serpent
The World Serpent is a colossal sea serpent from Norse mythology that encircles the earth and is fated to battle Thor during Ragnarök.
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E.
Dragon's Teeth
"Dragon's Teeth" is a 1942 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Upton Sinclair that continues his Lanny Budd series, depicting the rise of Nazism in Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Tongues of Serpents Description of subject: Tongues of Serpents is a historical fantasy novel in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, following dragon captain William Laurence’s exile and adventures in colonial Australia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.