Maccus
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Maccus is a hammerhead shark–featured, fearsome first mate serving under Davy Jones aboard the ghostly pirate ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maccus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12869302 — 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: Maccus Context triple: [Flying Dutchman (Pirates of the Caribbean), notableCrewMember, Maccus]
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A.
Maccus
Maccus is an Old Norse–derived given name that served as the historical root for the later surname and given name Maxwell.
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B.
Sextus
Sextus is the praenomen (first name) of the Roman elegiac poet Propertius, active during the Augustan age.
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C.
Mamercus
Mamercus is an ancient Roman praenomen (given name) notably used by members of the patrician gens Aemilia.
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D.
Curius
Curius is the Roman family name (nomen) associated with the notable statesman and general Manius Curius Dentatus.
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E.
Lucio
Lucio is a Brazilian central defender renowned for his commanding presence, leadership, and success with both the Brazilian national team and top European clubs such as Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.
- 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: Maccus Target entity description: Maccus is a hammerhead shark–featured, fearsome first mate serving under Davy Jones aboard the ghostly pirate ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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A.
Maccus
Maccus is an Old Norse–derived given name that served as the historical root for the later surname and given name Maxwell.
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B.
Sextus
Sextus is the praenomen (first name) of the Roman elegiac poet Propertius, active during the Augustan age.
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C.
Mamercus
Mamercus is an ancient Roman praenomen (given name) notably used by members of the patrician gens Aemilia.
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D.
Curius
Curius is the Roman family name (nomen) associated with the notable statesman and general Manius Curius Dentatus.
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E.
Lucio
Lucio is a Brazilian central defender renowned for his commanding presence, leadership, and success with both the Brazilian national team and top European clubs such as Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crew member of the Flying Dutchman
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fictional character ⓘ pirate ⓘ |
| affiliation | crew of the Flying Dutchman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Pirates of the Caribbean film series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End NERFINISHED ⓘ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Davy Jones' Locker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the Kraken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | mythical ghost ship crew archetype ⓘ |
| commandedBy | Davy Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Ted Elliott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terry Rossio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Elizabeth Swann
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Sparrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Pirates of the Caribbean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
swashbuckler ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalCharacteristic |
barnacle-encrusted skin
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hammerhead shark-like head ⓘ sea-creature mutations ⓘ shark-like teeth ⓘ |
| hasRank | first mate ⓘ |
| hasWeapon |
cutlass
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pistol ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Davy Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalty |
Davy Jones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flying Dutchman crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| nationality | British (implied, historical pirate context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | pirate first mate ⓘ |
| partOf | Davy Jones' crew ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
fearsome
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dermot Keaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | first mate of the Flying Dutchman ⓘ |
| servesUnder | Davy Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Caribbean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ship | Flying Dutchman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species |
hammerhead shark–human hybrid
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mutated human ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Age of Sail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| universe | Pirates of the Caribbean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Maccus Description of subject: Maccus is a hammerhead shark–featured, fearsome first mate serving under Davy Jones aboard the ghostly pirate ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Flying Dutchman (Pirates of the Caribbean)