The Vikings
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The Vikings is a 1958 historical adventure film starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis that dramatizes the violent exploits and rivalries of Norse warriors in medieval England.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Vikings canonical | 8 |
| The Vikings (1958 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6869869 — 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: The Vikings Context triple: [Richard Fleischer, notableWork, The Vikings]
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Vikings
Vikings is a historical drama television series that follows the legendary Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok and his fellow warriors as they explore, raid, and battle across medieval Europe.
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B.
Vikings
Vikings is the mascot and team name used by La Jolla High School for its athletic programs.
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C.
Vikings
The Vikings are the athletic teams representing Portland State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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D.
Vikings
Vikings were seafaring Norse peoples from Scandinavia known for their raids, exploration, trade, and settlement across wide areas of Europe and the North Atlantic during the late eighth to early eleventh centuries.
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E.
Vikings
The Vikings are the athletic teams representing Cleveland State University in NCAA Division I sports.
- 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: The Vikings Target entity description: The Vikings is a 1958 historical adventure film starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis that dramatizes the violent exploits and rivalries of Norse warriors in medieval England.
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A.
Vikings
Vikings is a historical drama television series that follows the legendary Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok and his fellow warriors as they explore, raid, and battle across medieval Europe.
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B.
Vikings
Vikings is the mascot and team name used by La Jolla High School for its athletic programs.
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C.
Vikings
The Vikings are the athletic teams representing Portland State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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D.
Vikings
Vikings were seafaring Norse peoples from Scandinavia known for their raids, exploration, trade, and settlement across wide areas of Europe and the North Atlantic during the late eighth to early eleventh centuries.
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E.
Vikings
The Vikings are the athletic teams representing Cleveland State University in NCAA Division I sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: The Vikings Description of subject: The Vikings is a 1958 historical adventure film starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis that dramatizes the violent exploits and rivalries of Norse warriors in medieval England.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Vikings
subject linked to:
Eileen Way (voice in some sources disputed)
linked to: The Vikings