Disko Troop from the novel Captains Courageous
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Disko Troop is the tough, principled Gloucester fishing captain who mentors the spoiled Harvey Cheyne in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Captains Courageous."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Disko Troop from the novel Captains Courageous canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6168565 — 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: Disko Troop from the novel Captains Courageous Context triple: [Captain Disko Troop, basedOn, Disko Troop from the novel Captains Courageous]
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A.
Penrod
Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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B.
Little Men
Little Men is a classic 19th-century novel by Louisa May Alcott that follows the lives and moral growth of a group of boys at a progressive school run by Jo March and her husband.
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C.
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson is a classic 1812 adventure novel by Johann David Wyss about a shipwrecked Swiss family who use ingenuity and cooperation to survive and build a new life on a deserted island.
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D.
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Captain Carey, U.S.A. is a 1950 American crime drama film best known for its post–World War II revenge plot and the Oscar-winning song "Mona Lisa."
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E.
Railroad Boy
"Railroad Boy" is a traditional folk ballad interpreted and popularized by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
- 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: Disko Troop from the novel Captains Courageous Target entity description: Disko Troop is the tough, principled Gloucester fishing captain who mentors the spoiled Harvey Cheyne in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Captains Courageous."
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A.
Penrod
Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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B.
Little Men
Little Men is a classic 19th-century novel by Louisa May Alcott that follows the lives and moral growth of a group of boys at a progressive school run by Jo March and her husband.
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C.
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson is a classic 1812 adventure novel by Johann David Wyss about a shipwrecked Swiss family who use ingenuity and cooperation to survive and build a new life on a deserted island.
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D.
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Captain Carey, U.S.A. is a 1950 American crime drama film best known for its post–World War II revenge plot and the Oscar-winning song "Mona Lisa."
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E.
Railroad Boy
"Railroad Boy" is a traditional folk ballad interpreted and popularized by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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fisherman ⓘ mentor ⓘ sea captain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Captains Courageous
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linked to:
Captains Courageous (1897 novel)
|
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Grand Banks
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Banks of Newfoundland
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| characterTrait |
disciplined
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experienced seaman ⓘ fair ⓘ principled ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| commandsVessel | We’re Here ⓘ |
| createdBy | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1897 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
coming-of-age novel
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nautical fiction ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Troop ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Disko ⓘ |
| hasSon | Dan Troop ⓘ |
| homePort |
Gloucester, Massachusetts
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linked to:
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mentorOf | Harvey Cheyne ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
fishing captain
ⓘ
schooner captain ⓘ |
| residence |
Gloucester, Massachusetts
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linked to:
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
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| teaches |
responsibility to Harvey Cheyne
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seamanship to Harvey Cheyne ⓘ work ethic to Harvey Cheyne ⓘ |
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: Disko Troop from the novel Captains Courageous Description of subject: Disko Troop is the tough, principled Gloucester fishing captain who mentors the spoiled Harvey Cheyne in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Captains Courageous."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.