Close Quarters
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Close Quarters is a 1987 novel by William Golding that continues the seafaring adventures begun in Rites of Passage, exploring power, class, and human nature aboard a Napoleonic-era warship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Close Quarters canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5310536 — 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: Close Quarters Context triple: [William Golding, notableWork, Close Quarters]
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A.
Shooting into the Corner
Shooting into the Corner is a large-scale installation by artist Anish Kapoor that dramatically fires red wax into a gallery corner, exploring themes of violence, materiality, and spectacle.
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B.
Close-Up
Close-Up is a 1961 studio album by American folk group The Kingston Trio, showcasing their signature harmonies and storytelling style during the peak of the folk revival era.
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C.
Shut In
Shut In is a 2016 psychological horror-thriller film starring Naomi Watts as a child psychologist isolated in a remote New England house during a deadly winter storm.
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D.
Clampdown
"Clampdown" is a politically charged punk rock song by The Clash, featured on their landmark 1979 album *London Calling*.
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E.
Throw Your Guns
"Throw Your Guns" is a song by the hip hop duo The Firm, featured on their collaborative album "The Firm: The Album."
- 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: Close Quarters Target entity description: Close Quarters is a 1987 novel by William Golding that continues the seafaring adventures begun in Rites of Passage, exploring power, class, and human nature aboard a Napoleonic-era warship.
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A.
Shooting into the Corner
Shooting into the Corner is a large-scale installation by artist Anish Kapoor that dramatically fires red wax into a gallery corner, exploring themes of violence, materiality, and spectacle.
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B.
Close-Up
Close-Up is a 1961 studio album by American folk group The Kingston Trio, showcasing their signature harmonies and storytelling style during the peak of the folk revival era.
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C.
Shut In
Shut In is a 2016 psychological horror-thriller film starring Naomi Watts as a child psychologist isolated in a remote New England house during a deadly winter storm.
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D.
Clampdown
"Clampdown" is a politically charged punk rock song by The Clash, featured on their landmark 1979 album *London Calling*.
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E.
Throw Your Guns
"Throw Your Guns" is a song by the hip hop duo The Firm, featured on their collaborative album "The Firm: The Album."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Close Quarters Description of subject: Close Quarters is a 1987 novel by William Golding that continues the seafaring adventures begun in Rites of Passage, exploring power, class, and human nature aboard a Napoleonic-era warship.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.