Point Wild
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Point Wild is a small, remote headland on Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, best known as the site where Ernest Shackleton’s stranded Endurance crew camped and awaited rescue in 1916.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Point Wild canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5021945 — 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: Point Wild Context triple: [Elephant Island, hasFeature, Point Wild]
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A.
Point Blank
Point Blank is a segment or component of the larger work titled "The River," likely representing a distinct chapter, track, or section within that overall composition.
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B.
Point Blank
Point Blank is a 1967 neo-noir crime film starring Lee Marvin, noted for its stylish direction and influential, hard-edged portrayal of revenge.
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C.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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D.
The Way of the Gun
The Way of the Gun is a 2000 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, known for its gritty tone, intricate plotting, and morally ambiguous characters.
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E.
Winter Hill
Winter Hill is a residential neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts, known for its historic significance and elevated views overlooking the Boston area.
- 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: Point Wild Target entity description: Point Wild is a small, remote headland on Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, best known as the site where Ernest Shackleton’s stranded Endurance crew camped and awaited rescue in 1916.
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A.
Point Blank
Point Blank is a segment or component of the larger work titled "The River," likely representing a distinct chapter, track, or section within that overall composition.
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B.
Point Blank
Point Blank is a 1967 neo-noir crime film starring Lee Marvin, noted for its stylish direction and influential, hard-edged portrayal of revenge.
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C.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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D.
The Way of the Gun
The Way of the Gun is a 2000 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, known for its gritty tone, intricate plotting, and morally ambiguous characters.
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E.
Winter Hill
Winter Hill is a residential neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts, known for its historic significance and elevated views overlooking the Boston area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic location
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headland ⓘ |
| country | Antarctica ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 1,300 km south of Cape Horn ⓘ |
| earlierName | Cape Wild ⓘ |
| event |
Endurance crew camped at Point Wild in 1916
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Shackleton rescue by Chilean ship Yelcho in 1916 ⓘ |
| governedBy | no sovereign nation (Antarctic Treaty area) ⓘ |
| hasAccessibility | accessible only by ship and small boats ⓘ |
| hasClimate | polar climate ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | -61.0667 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | -54.8500 ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | glaciated surroundings ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
narrow beach
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rocky shore ⓘ steep cliffs ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod | Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration ⓘ |
| hasIceCover | surrounded by glaciers and ice cliffs ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfToponym | English ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | international territory under Antarctic Treaty ⓘ |
| hasMonument |
bust of Captain Luis Pardo
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plaque commemorating rescue of Endurance crew ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
Cape Lookout
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Cape Valentine ⓘ |
| hasNearbyIsland | Elephant Island ⓘ |
| hasRisk | ice and surf hazards for landings ⓘ |
| hasSeaConditions | rough seas ⓘ |
| hasSeasonalCondition | sea ice present in winter ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
penguins
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seabirds ⓘ seals ⓘ |
| isInhabited | false ⓘ |
| isRemote | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ernest Shackleton Endurance expedition camp site
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rescue site of stranded Endurance crew in 1916 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Antarctica
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South Shetland Islands ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Elephant Island ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | Southern Ocean ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Frank Wild ⓘ |
| partOf |
South Shetland Islands archipelago
ⓘ
linked to:
South Shetland Islands
|
| protectedBy | Antarctic Treaty System ⓘ |
| usedAs | emergency camp ⓘ |
| visitedFor |
polar history tourism
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scientific expeditions ⓘ |
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: Point Wild Description of subject: Point Wild is a small, remote headland on Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, best known as the site where Ernest Shackleton’s stranded Endurance crew camped and awaited rescue in 1916.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.