White Squall
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White Squall is a 1996 adventure drama film directed by Ridley Scott about a tragic sailing voyage of teenage boys aboard a school ship in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| White Squall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6959981 — 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: White Squall Context triple: [Balthazar Getty, notableWork, White Squall]
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A.
The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm is a 2000 disaster drama film, based on Sebastian Junger’s non-fiction book, that depicts the real-life 1991 “perfect storm” and the doomed Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing boat Andrea Gail.
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B.
The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm is a studio album by American rapper Twista that showcases his rapid-fire delivery over polished, radio-friendly production.
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C.
Dead Calm
Dead Calm is a 1989 psychological thriller film set almost entirely at sea, known for its tense, minimalist story and performances by Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, and Billy Zane.
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D.
Der Sturm
Der Sturm was an influential early 20th-century German art and literary magazine and gallery that became a central platform for Expressionism and the European avant-garde.
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E.
In the Heart of the Sea
In the Heart of the Sea is a historical adventure-drama film depicting the real-life 1820 sinking of the whaling ship Essex, an event that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
- 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: White Squall Target entity description: White Squall is a 1996 adventure drama film directed by Ridley Scott about a tragic sailing voyage of teenage boys aboard a school ship in the 1960s.
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A.
The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm is a 2000 disaster drama film, based on Sebastian Junger’s non-fiction book, that depicts the real-life 1991 “perfect storm” and the doomed Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing boat Andrea Gail.
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B.
The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm is a studio album by American rapper Twista that showcases his rapid-fire delivery over polished, radio-friendly production.
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C.
Dead Calm
Dead Calm is a 1989 psychological thriller film set almost entirely at sea, known for its tense, minimalist story and performances by Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, and Billy Zane.
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D.
Der Sturm
Der Sturm was an influential early 20th-century German art and literary magazine and gallery that became a central platform for Expressionism and the European avant-garde.
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E.
In the Heart of the Sea
In the Heart of the Sea is a historical adventure-drama film depicting the real-life 1820 sinking of the whaling ship Essex, an event that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Albatross school ship tragedy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Last Voyage of the Albatross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Hugh Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Ridley Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Hollywood Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Christian Wagner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gerald B. Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Caribbean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| follows | voyage of the school ship Albatross ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Captain Christopher Sheldon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chuck Gieg NERFINISHED ⓘ Dean Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. Alice Sheldon NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Beaumont NERFINISHED ⓘ Gil Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ Shay Jennings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
coming-of-age
ⓘ
nautical disaster ⓘ sailing ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jeff Rona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Caribbean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Mimi Polk Gitlin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ridley Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Scott Free Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1996-02-02 ⓘ |
| runtime | 129 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Todd Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Balthazar Getty
NERFINISHED
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Caroline Goodall NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethan Embry NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Marsden NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeremy Sisto NERFINISHED ⓘ John Savage NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan Phillippe NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
leadership
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responsibility ⓘ survival ⓘ |
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: White Squall Description of subject: White Squall is a 1996 adventure drama film directed by Ridley Scott about a tragic sailing voyage of teenage boys aboard a school ship in the 1960s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.