Bear Island (1979 film)
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Bear Island (1979 film) is a 1979 thriller film adaptation of Alistair MacLean’s novel, set on a remote Arctic island where a scientific expedition uncovers deadly secrets and intrigue.
All labels observed (1)
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| Bear Island (1979 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10808549 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bear Island (1979 film) Context triple: [Alistair MacLean, workAdaptedTo, Bear Island (1979 film)]
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Bear Island (among others)
Bear Island is one of the islands located within Great Bear Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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Bear Island
Bear Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its rugged natural shoreline and forested, relatively undeveloped landscape within the Apostle Islands region of northern Wisconsin.
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Bear Island
Bear Island is a sizable, mostly wooded island on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee known for its seasonal cottages and scenic recreational setting.
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Bear Island
Bear Island is a remote, largely uninhabited Norwegian island in the Barents Sea, situated between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago.
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Bear Island
Bear Island is a small, wooded island located within J. Percy Priest Lake near Nashville, Tennessee, popular for boating and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Bear Island (1979 film) Target entity description: Bear Island (1979 film) is a 1979 thriller film adaptation of Alistair MacLean’s novel, set on a remote Arctic island where a scientific expedition uncovers deadly secrets and intrigue.
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A.
Bear Island (among others)
Bear Island is one of the islands located within Great Bear Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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B.
Bear Island
Bear Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its rugged natural shoreline and forested, relatively undeveloped landscape within the Apostle Islands region of northern Wisconsin.
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Bear Island
Bear Island is a sizable, mostly wooded island on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee known for its seasonal cottages and scenic recreational setting.
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D.
Bear Island
Bear Island is a remote, largely uninhabited Norwegian island in the Barents Sea, situated between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago.
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E.
Bear Island
Bear Island is a small, wooded island located within J. Percy Priest Lake near Nashville, Tennessee, popular for boating and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: Bear Island (1979 film) Description of subject: Bear Island (1979 film) is a 1979 thriller film adaptation of Alistair MacLean’s novel, set on a remote Arctic island where a scientific expedition uncovers deadly secrets and intrigue.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.