HMS Surprise (novel)
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HMS Surprise (novel) is a historical naval adventure book by Patrick O’Brian, part of the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Captain Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Surprise (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6189767 — 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: HMS Surprise (novel) Context triple: [HMS Surprise, appearsIn, HMS Surprise (novel)]
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The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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The Shipwreck
The Shipwreck is a dramatic 18th-century maritime painting by French artist Joseph Vernet, renowned for its vivid depiction of storm-tossed seas and human struggle against nature.
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C.
All At Sea
"All At Sea" is a jazz-influenced pop song by British singer-songwriter and pianist Jamie Cullum, featured on his breakthrough album "Twentysomething."
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D.
L'Équipage
L'Équipage is a 1923 novel by Joseph Kessel that portrays the lives, camaraderie, and moral conflicts of French bomber pilots during World War I.
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E.
Marooned
Marooned is a 1969 science fiction drama film about stranded astronauts in space, directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, and David Janssen.
- 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: HMS Surprise (novel) Target entity description: HMS Surprise (novel) is a historical naval adventure book by Patrick O’Brian, part of the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Captain Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Shipwreck
The Shipwreck is a dramatic 18th-century maritime painting by French artist Joseph Vernet, renowned for its vivid depiction of storm-tossed seas and human struggle against nature.
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C.
All At Sea
"All At Sea" is a jazz-influenced pop song by British singer-songwriter and pianist Jamie Cullum, featured on his breakthrough album "Twentysomething."
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D.
L'Équipage
L'Équipage is a 1923 novel by Joseph Kessel that portrays the lives, camaraderie, and moral conflicts of French bomber pilots during World War I.
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E.
Marooned
Marooned is a 1969 science fiction drama film about stranded astronauts in space, directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, and David Janssen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: HMS Surprise (novel) Description of subject: HMS Surprise (novel) is a historical naval adventure book by Patrick O’Brian, part of the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Captain Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.