The Fortune of War
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The Fortune of War is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian, following Captain Jack Aubrey and physician-spy Stephen Maturin through sea battles and espionage during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Fortune of War canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6189565 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Fortune of War Context triple: [Aubrey–Maturin series, hasBook, The Fortune of War]
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The Spoils of War
The Spoils of War is the English rendering of the title of Surah Al-Anfal, an eighth chapter of the Qur’an that addresses issues of warfare, distribution of war gains, and obedience to God and His Messenger.
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The War Lover
The War Lover is a 1962 British-American war film starring Steve McQueen as a reckless World War II bomber pilot.
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C.
Forgotten War
The "Forgotten War" refers to the Ifni War, a brief late-1950s conflict between Spain and Moroccan irregular forces over the Spanish enclave of Ifni in North Africa.
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Sons of Fortune
Sons of Fortune is a bestselling novel by Jeffrey Archer that follows the dramatically intertwined lives of twin brothers separated at birth and raised in very different worlds.
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E.
The Free Besieged
The Free Besieged is an unfinished Romantic poem by Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos that reflects the heroism and spiritual resilience of the defenders during the Siege of Missolonghi in the Greek War of Independence.
- 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: The Fortune of War Target entity description: The Fortune of War is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian, following Captain Jack Aubrey and physician-spy Stephen Maturin through sea battles and espionage during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
The Spoils of War
The Spoils of War is the English rendering of the title of Surah Al-Anfal, an eighth chapter of the Qur’an that addresses issues of warfare, distribution of war gains, and obedience to God and His Messenger.
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B.
The War Lover
The War Lover is a 1962 British-American war film starring Steve McQueen as a reckless World War II bomber pilot.
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C.
Forgotten War
The "Forgotten War" refers to the Ifni War, a brief late-1950s conflict between Spain and Moroccan irregular forces over the Spanish enclave of Ifni in North Africa.
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D.
Sons of Fortune
Sons of Fortune is a bestselling novel by Jeffrey Archer that follows the dramatically intertwined lives of twin brothers separated at birth and raised in very different worlds.
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E.
The Free Besieged
The Free Besieged is an unfinished Romantic poem by Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos that reflects the heroism and spiritual resilience of the defenders during the Siege of Missolonghi in the Greek War of Independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Fortune of War Description of subject: The Fortune of War is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian, following Captain Jack Aubrey and physician-spy Stephen Maturin through sea battles and espionage during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.