Desolation Island
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Desolation Island is a historical naval adventure novel by Patrick O’Brian, following Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin on a perilous voyage during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Desolation Island canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6189564 — 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: Desolation Island Context triple: [Aubrey–Maturin series, hasBook, Desolation Island]
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A.
Lincoln Island
Lincoln Island is one of the small land features within the disputed Paracel Islands archipelago in the South China Sea.
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B.
Landfall Island
Landfall Island is the northernmost inhabited island of India’s Andaman archipelago, known for its remote location, coral reefs, and indigenous communities.
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C.
Rainsford Island
Rainsford Island is a small island in Boston Harbor known historically for its use as a quarantine, hospital, and almshouse site.
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D.
Desolation Islands
The Desolation Islands, formally known as the Kerguelen Islands, are a remote, windswept subantarctic archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean administered by France and noted for their harsh climate and scientific research stations.
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E.
Deceit Island
Deceit Island is a remote, uninhabited island in southern Chile, located near Cape Horn in the stormy waters of the Drake Passage.
- 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: Desolation Island Target entity description: Desolation Island is a historical naval adventure novel by Patrick O’Brian, following Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin on a perilous voyage during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Lincoln Island
Lincoln Island is one of the small land features within the disputed Paracel Islands archipelago in the South China Sea.
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B.
Landfall Island
Landfall Island is the northernmost inhabited island of India’s Andaman archipelago, known for its remote location, coral reefs, and indigenous communities.
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C.
Rainsford Island
Rainsford Island is a small island in Boston Harbor known historically for its use as a quarantine, hospital, and almshouse site.
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D.
Desolation Islands
The Desolation Islands, formally known as the Kerguelen Islands, are a remote, windswept subantarctic archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean administered by France and noted for their harsh climate and scientific research stations.
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E.
Deceit Island
Deceit Island is a remote, uninhabited island in southern Chile, located near Cape Horn in the stormy waters of the Drake Passage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Desolation Island Description of subject: Desolation Island is a historical naval adventure novel by Patrick O’Brian, following Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin on a perilous voyage during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.