The Black Island
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The Black Island is one of the early Tintin comic albums by Hergé, featuring the young reporter uncovering a counterfeit money operation on a mysterious Scottish island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Black Island canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7697089 — 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 Black Island Context triple: [The Adventures of Tintin, hasAlbum, The Black Island]
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A.
Colquhoun’s Island
Colquhoun’s Island is an alternative name for Inchconnachan, a wooded island on Loch Lomond in Scotland known for its natural beauty and population of wild wallabies.
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B.
Ten Pound Island
Ten Pound Island is a small island in Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, historically known for its maritime significance and coastal lighthouse.
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C.
Moon Island
Moon Island is a small, historically significant island in Boston Harbor that has served various municipal and military uses, including as a training site and former sewage treatment facility.
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D.
Island of Columba
The Island of Columba is a small Scottish island historically associated with Saint Columba, known as a site of early Christian monasticism and pilgrimage.
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E.
Ballast Island
Ballast Island is a small privately owned island in Lake Erie, known for its historic cottages and role as part of Ohio’s Lake Erie Islands archipelago.
- 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 Black Island Target entity description: The Black Island is one of the early Tintin comic albums by Hergé, featuring the young reporter uncovering a counterfeit money operation on a mysterious Scottish island.
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A.
Colquhoun’s Island
Colquhoun’s Island is an alternative name for Inchconnachan, a wooded island on Loch Lomond in Scotland known for its natural beauty and population of wild wallabies.
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B.
Ten Pound Island
Ten Pound Island is a small island in Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, historically known for its maritime significance and coastal lighthouse.
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C.
Moon Island
Moon Island is a small, historically significant island in Boston Harbor that has served various municipal and military uses, including as a training site and former sewage treatment facility.
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D.
Island of Columba
The Island of Columba is a small Scottish island historically associated with Saint Columba, known as a site of early Christian monasticism and pilgrimage.
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E.
Ballast Island
Ballast Island is a small privately owned island in Lake Erie, known for its historic cottages and role as part of Ohio’s Lake Erie Islands archipelago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tintin comic album
ⓘ
comic book ⓘ |
| artStyle | ligne claire ⓘ |
| chronologicalOrderInSeries | seventh Tintin adventure ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Hergé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresAntagonist | Dr. Müller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Snowy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomson and Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | Le Petit Vingtième NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| followedBy | King Ottokar’s Sceptre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Broken Ear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure comic
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasAnimalCharacter | gorilla Ranko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasColorEdition |
1943 redrawn version
ⓘ
1966 updated version ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
album
ⓘ
serialized comic ⓘ |
| hasReprint |
black-and-white album edition
ⓘ
color album edition ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime investigation
ⓘ
forgery ⓘ pursuit and escape ⓘ |
| hasTransportationElement |
airplane
ⓘ
boat ⓘ car ⓘ train ⓘ |
| languageOfFirstSerialization | French ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Tintin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of British settings
ⓘ
multiple major redrawn revisions by Hergé ⓘ |
| notableLocation |
Black Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastdown NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiltoch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | L’Île Noire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Tintin canon ⓘ |
| plotElement |
counterfeit money operation
ⓘ
mysterious Scottish island ⓘ |
| publisher | Casterman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revisedFor | British market ⓘ |
| series | The Adventures of Tintin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children and young adults ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Black Island Description of subject: The Black Island is one of the early Tintin comic albums by Hergé, featuring the young reporter uncovering a counterfeit money operation on a mysterious Scottish island.
Referenced by (1)
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