Benito Cereno (1969 TV film)
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Benito Cereno (1969 TV film) is a television drama adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella about a mysterious Spanish slave ship boarded by an American captain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benito Cereno (1969 TV film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5531154 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Benito Cereno (1969 TV film) Context triple: [Benito Cereno, adaptation, Benito Cereno (1969 TV film)]
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A.
Moby Dick (1956 film)
Moby Dick (1956 film) is a 1956 adventure drama directed by John Huston, adapting Herman Melville’s novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt for the white whale and starring Gregory Peck as Ahab.
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B.
Aguirre
Aguirre is a cursed 16th-century Spanish conquistador and the main antagonist in Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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C.
Cinqué in Amistad
Cinqué in *Amistad* is the central historical figure and leader of the enslaved Africans who revolt against their captors in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 film.
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D.
Mister Roberts
Mister Roberts is a 1955 naval comedy-drama film, based on the hit play, best known for its ensemble cast including Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon in an Oscar-winning role.
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E.
Doña Bárbara
Doña Bárbara is a classic Venezuelan novel by Rómulo Gallegos that explores the clash between civilization and barbarism on the country’s rural plains through the figure of a ruthless female landowner.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benito Cereno (1969 TV film) Target entity description: Benito Cereno (1969 TV film) is a television drama adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella about a mysterious Spanish slave ship boarded by an American captain.
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A.
Moby Dick (1956 film)
Moby Dick (1956 film) is a 1956 adventure drama directed by John Huston, adapting Herman Melville’s novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt for the white whale and starring Gregory Peck as Ahab.
-
B.
Aguirre
Aguirre is a cursed 16th-century Spanish conquistador and the main antagonist in Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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C.
Cinqué in Amistad
Cinqué in *Amistad* is the central historical figure and leader of the enslaved Africans who revolt against their captors in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 film.
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D.
Mister Roberts
Mister Roberts is a 1955 naval comedy-drama film, based on the hit play, best known for its ensemble cast including Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon in an Oscar-winning role.
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E.
Doña Bárbara
Doña Bárbara is a classic Venezuelan novel by Rómulo Gallegos that explores the clash between civilization and barbarism on the country’s rural plains through the figure of a ruthless female landowner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Benito Cereno (novella)
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linked to:
Benito Cereno
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| basedOn |
Benito Cereno (novella)
ⓘ
linked to:
Benito Cereno
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| basedOnWorkBy | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
historical drama ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
mutiny
ⓘ
slave ship ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | an American captain boarding a mysterious Spanish slave ship ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastOn | television ⓘ |
| productionType | made-for-television film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | aboard a Spanish slave ship ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workTitle | Benito Cereno ⓘ |
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: Benito Cereno (1969 TV film) Description of subject: Benito Cereno (1969 TV film) is a television drama adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella about a mysterious Spanish slave ship boarded by an American captain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.