Captain Flint
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Captain Flint is the talking parrot owned by Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island," famous for squawking pirate phrases like “Pieces of eight!”.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Flint canonical | 5 |
| Captain Flint (fictional character) | 1 |
| Captain Flint (fictional pirate, formerly) | 1 |
| Captain Flint (parrot) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6244278 — 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: Captain Flint Context triple: [Long John Silver, petName, Captain Flint]
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A.
Long John Silver
Long John Silver is a cunning, one-legged pirate and master manipulator who serves as the charismatic antihero in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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B.
Captain Jack
Captain Jack was the Modoc leader who commanded his people during the Modoc War against United States forces in the 1870s.
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C.
Captain Jack
Captain Jack is the charismatic, time-traveling former Time Agent and leader of Torchwood from the Doctor Who universe.
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D.
Captain Johnson
Captain Johnson is a fictional character from the 1978 equestrian drama film "International Velvet."
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E.
Squire Trelawney
Squire Trelawney is a wealthy, somewhat naive English landowner who finances and helps organize the ill-fated treasure-hunting voyage in Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Treasure Island."
- 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: Captain Flint Target entity description: Captain Flint is the talking parrot owned by Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island," famous for squawking pirate phrases like “Pieces of eight!”.
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A.
Long John Silver
Long John Silver is a cunning, one-legged pirate and master manipulator who serves as the charismatic antihero in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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B.
Captain Jack
Captain Jack was the Modoc leader who commanded his people during the Modoc War against United States forces in the 1870s.
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C.
Captain Jack
Captain Jack is the charismatic, time-traveling former Time Agent and leader of Torchwood from the Doctor Who universe.
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D.
Captain Johnson
Captain Johnson is a fictional character from the 1978 equestrian drama film "International Velvet."
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E.
Squire Trelawney
Squire Trelawney is a wealthy, somewhat naive English landowner who finances and helps organize the ill-fated treasure-hunting voyage in Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Treasure Island."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional animal
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fictional parrot ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| alignment | associated with pirates and mutineers ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Treasure Island ⓘ |
| associatedPhrase | "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Long John Silver
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pirates ⓘ |
| catchphrase | "Pieces of eight!" ⓘ |
| color | green parrot ⓘ |
| communication | repeats pirate phrases ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| famousFor | squawking "Pieces of eight!" ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | "Treasure Island" universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
novel "Treasure Island"
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linked to:
Treasure Island (novel)
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| genre |
adventure fiction
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children's literature ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | stereotypical image of pirates with shoulder parrots ⓘ |
| hasOwner | Long John Silver ⓘ |
| inspired | later depictions of pirate parrots in popular culture ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Captain Flint (fictional pirate in "Treasure Island")
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linked to:
Captain Flint
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| narrativeFunction |
comic relief
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reinforcement of Long John Silver's pirate identity ⓘ |
| notableQuote | "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" ⓘ |
| partOf | Treasure Island franchise ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1883 ⓘ |
| role |
pet and companion of Long John Silver
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symbol of piracy ⓘ |
| settingOfFictionalWork | 18th-century Caribbean (within "Treasure Island") ⓘ |
| species | parrot ⓘ |
| vocalization | talking parrot ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
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: Captain Flint Description of subject: Captain Flint is the talking parrot owned by Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island," famous for squawking pirate phrases like “Pieces of eight!”.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Treasure Island (fictional island)
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hasNotableResident
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Captain Flint (fictional pirate, formerly)
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linked to: Captain Flint
linked to: Captain Flint
linked to: Captain Flint