Orca
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Orca is a 1977 horror-thriller film about a vengeful killer whale that targets the fisherman who killed its mate.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Orca canonical | 2 |
| the Orca | 2 |
| Orca: The Killer Whale | 1 |
| orcas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10723083 — 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: Orca Context triple: [Will Sampson, appearedIn, Orca]
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A.
Tokitae (orca)
Tokitae (also known as Lolita) was a captive female orca who lived for decades at the Miami Seaquarium and became a prominent symbol in debates over marine mammal captivity and welfare.
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B.
Gisk’aast (Killer Whale)
Gisk’aast (Killer Whale) is one of the principal matrilineal clans of the Nisga’a people, traditionally associated with the killer whale crest and its related histories, rights, and territories.
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C.
Beluga
The Beluga is a large, bulbous-headed cargo aircraft developed by Airbus, known for transporting oversized aerospace components.
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D.
Bowhead whale
The bowhead whale is a large, long-lived baleen whale of Arctic and sub-Arctic waters, known for its massive bow-shaped skull, thick blubber, and cultural and subsistence importance to Indigenous peoples of the far north.
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E.
Dolphin
Dolphin was the internal codename used by Nintendo during the development of the GameCube console.
- 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: Orca Target entity description: Orca is a 1977 horror-thriller film about a vengeful killer whale that targets the fisherman who killed its mate.
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A.
Tokitae (orca)
Tokitae (also known as Lolita) was a captive female orca who lived for decades at the Miami Seaquarium and became a prominent symbol in debates over marine mammal captivity and welfare.
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B.
Gisk’aast (Killer Whale)
Gisk’aast (Killer Whale) is one of the principal matrilineal clans of the Nisga’a people, traditionally associated with the killer whale crest and its related histories, rights, and territories.
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C.
Beluga
The Beluga is a large, bulbous-headed cargo aircraft developed by Airbus, known for transporting oversized aerospace components.
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D.
Bowhead whale
The bowhead whale is a large, long-lived baleen whale of Arctic and sub-Arctic waters, known for its massive bow-shaped skull, thick blubber, and cultural and subsistence importance to Indigenous peoples of the far north.
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E.
Dolphin
Dolphin was the internal codename used by Nintendo during the development of the GameCube console.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Orca Description of subject: Orca is a 1977 horror-thriller film about a vengeful killer whale that targets the fisherman who killed its mate.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Orca
linked to: Orca