Billy Bones
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Billy Bones is the old, hard-drinking pirate whose arrival at the Admiral Benbow inn sets off the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Billy Bones canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6300155 — 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: Billy Bones Context triple: [Dr. Livesey, caresFor, Billy Bones]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Captain Flint
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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D.
William Turner
William Turner is a common English name shared by several notable figures, including the Romantic landscape painter J. M. W. Turner and the fictional blacksmith-turned-pirate from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series.
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E.
Dr. Livesey
Dr. Livesey is the cheerful, brave, and level-headed doctor and magistrate who serves as a moral anchor and key ally to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "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: Billy Bones Target entity description: Billy Bones is the old, hard-drinking pirate whose arrival at the Admiral Benbow inn sets off the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island."
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Captain Flint
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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D.
William Turner
William Turner is a common English name shared by several notable figures, including the Romantic landscape painter J. M. W. Turner and the fictional blacksmith-turned-pirate from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series.
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E.
Dr. Livesey
Dr. Livesey is the cheerful, brave, and level-headed doctor and magistrate who serves as a moral anchor and key ally to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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pirate ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Treasure Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | pirate fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation | Admiral Benbow Inn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithSymbol | black spot ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork | Treasure Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | apoplexy ⓘ |
| createdInYear | 1883 ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diesFrom | stroke ⓘ |
| drinks | rum ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Long John Silver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the pirate crew of Captain Flint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fears |
Long John Silver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
his former pirate crewmates ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Treasure Island universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Treasure Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerCrewMemberOf | Captain Flint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | adventure fiction character ⓘ |
| gives | treasure map to Jim Hawkins ⓘ |
| givesObjectTo | Jim Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Captain Billy Bones
NERFINISHED
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the captain ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
fearful of being pursued
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hard-drinking ⓘ old ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | Jim Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
authoritative
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paranoid ⓘ rough ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryRole | exposition character ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | introduces the central mystery of the treasure map ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | pirate ⓘ |
| possesses |
sea chest
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treasure map ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Jim Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesAt | Admiral Benbow Inn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | catalyst for the events of Treasure Island ⓘ |
| setsInMotion | search for Captain Flint’s treasure ⓘ |
| warns | Jim Hawkins about the black spot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Billy Bones Description of subject: Billy Bones is the old, hard-drinking pirate whose arrival at the Admiral Benbow inn sets off the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.