The Whale
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The Whale is a 2022 psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, adapted from Samuel D. Hunter’s play, about a reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher seeking redemption and reconnection with his estranged daughter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Whale canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5154940 — 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 Whale Context triple: [Sadie Sink, notableWork, The Whale]
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The Whale
The Whale is the distinctive, swooping-roof ice hockey arena at Yale University designed by architect Eero Saarinen.
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B.
The Great White Whale
The Great White Whale was the affectionate nickname given to the large, white-painted British ocean liner SS Canberra, famed for both her passenger service and role in the Falklands War.
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C.
La Vaca marina
La Vaca marina is a legendary sea creature from Chilote mythology, often depicted as a cow-like being that inhabits the ocean and is associated with maritime omens and local seafaring lore.
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D.
The Inland Whale
The Inland Whale is a collection of Native Californian Indian legends and stories retold for a general audience by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber.
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E.
The Dolphin
The Dolphin is a controversial 1973 poetry collection by Robert Lowell that explores his troubled personal life and marital breakdown through confessional verse.
- 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 Whale Target entity description: The Whale is a 2022 psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, adapted from Samuel D. Hunter’s play, about a reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher seeking redemption and reconnection with his estranged daughter.
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A.
The Whale
The Whale is the distinctive, swooping-roof ice hockey arena at Yale University designed by architect Eero Saarinen.
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B.
The Great White Whale
The Great White Whale was the affectionate nickname given to the large, white-painted British ocean liner SS Canberra, famed for both her passenger service and role in the Falklands War.
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C.
La Vaca marina
La Vaca marina is a legendary sea creature from Chilote mythology, often depicted as a cow-like being that inhabits the ocean and is associated with maritime omens and local seafaring lore.
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D.
The Inland Whale
The Inland Whale is a collection of Native Californian Indian legends and stories retold for a general audience by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber.
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E.
The Dolphin
The Dolphin is a controversial 1973 poetry collection by Robert Lowell that explores his troubled personal life and marital breakdown through confessional verse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Whale Description of subject: The Whale is a 2022 psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, adapted from Samuel D. Hunter’s play, about a reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher seeking redemption and reconnection with his estranged daughter.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.