San Dominick
E529018
San Dominick is the Spanish slave ship at the center of Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno," serving as the primary setting for its tale of mutiny and deception.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Dominick canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5531166 — 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: San Dominick Context triple: [Benito Cereno, shipFeatured, San Dominick]
-
A.
Redonda Island
Redonda Island is a small, remote island located within Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego archipelago, known for its rugged Patagonian landscapes and subantarctic climate.
-
B.
Isla de San Juan
Isla de San Juan is the main island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, home to the capital city of San Juan and the majority of the territory’s population and economic activity.
-
C.
Los Negros Island
Los Negros Island is a small island in Papua New Guinea’s Admiralty Islands group, known for its World War II military airbase and strategic role in the Pacific campaign.
-
D.
Port Island
Port Island is a large man-made island and urban district in Kobe, Japan, known for its port facilities, business centers, and residential areas built on reclaimed land.
-
E.
San Nicolas
San Nicolas is a town in Aruba known for its significant Afro-Aruban community and cultural influence.
- 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: San Dominick Target entity description: San Dominick is the Spanish slave ship at the center of Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno," serving as the primary setting for its tale of mutiny and deception.
-
A.
Redonda Island
Redonda Island is a small, remote island located within Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego archipelago, known for its rugged Patagonian landscapes and subantarctic climate.
-
B.
Isla de San Juan
Isla de San Juan is the main island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, home to the capital city of San Juan and the majority of the territory’s population and economic activity.
-
C.
Los Negros Island
Los Negros Island is a small island in Papua New Guinea’s Admiralty Islands group, known for its World War II military airbase and strategic role in the Pacific campaign.
-
D.
Port Island
Port Island is a large man-made island and urban district in Kobe, Japan, known for its port facilities, business centers, and residential areas built on reclaimed land.
-
E.
San Nicolas
San Nicolas is a town in Aruba known for its significant Afro-Aruban community and cultural influence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish ship
ⓘ
fictional ship ⓘ slave ship ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Benito Cereno ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
legal and moral responsibility
ⓘ
perception versus reality ⓘ power and domination ⓘ race ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| captainCharacter |
Don Benito Cereno
ⓘ
linked to:
Benito Cereno
|
| commandedBy |
Don Benito Cereno
ⓘ
linked to:
Benito Cereno
|
| countryOfRegistry | Spain ⓘ |
| createdBy | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| encounteredBy | Amasa Delano ⓘ |
| encounteredByShip |
Bachelor’s Delight
ⓘ
linked to:
Bachelor's Delight
|
| fictionalUniverse | Benito Cereno ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1855 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Putnam’s Monthly Magazine ⓘ |
| genreContext |
psychological fiction
ⓘ
sea narrative ⓘ slavery narrative ⓘ |
| hasCargo | enslaved Africans ⓘ |
| hasCrew | Spanish sailors ⓘ |
| hasLegalProceedings | post-voyage court deposition (within the story) ⓘ |
| hasPassenger | Alexandro Aranda ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| locationOfEvent |
deceptive masquerade of authority
ⓘ
slave revolt ⓘ |
| mutinyLedBy | Babo ⓘ |
| mutinyParticipants | enslaved Africans ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
confining space that intensifies tension
ⓘ
stage for role reversals between captors and captives ⓘ |
| narrativePerspectiveContext | described through Amasa Delano’s limited viewpoint ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central setting
ⓘ
site of deception ⓘ site of mutiny ⓘ |
| primarySettingOf | Benito Cereno ⓘ |
| settingType | ship at sea ⓘ |
| structuralRole | unified setting for nearly all action in Benito Cereno ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
colonial power structures
ⓘ
deceptive appearances ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ violence of slavery ⓘ |
| usedFor | transporting enslaved people from Africa ⓘ |
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: San Dominick Description of subject: San Dominick is the Spanish slave ship at the center of Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno," serving as the primary setting for its tale of mutiny and deception.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.