The Island
E112563
The Island is a 1979 thriller novel by Peter Benchley that follows a journalist who uncovers a hidden community of modern-day pirates in the Caribbean.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Island canonical | 3 |
| The Island (1980 film) | 1 |
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adventure novel
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novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| author | Peter Benchley ⓘ |
| authorAlsoWrote |
Jaws
ⓘ
The Deep ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
clash of civilizations
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isolation ⓘ modern-day piracy ⓘ survival ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Island
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Island (1980 film)
|
| hasCategory |
American thriller novels
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Novels by Peter Benchley ⓘ Novels set in the Caribbean ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Blair Maynard ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of a secret pirate society surviving into modern times ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A journalist investigates mysterious disappearances in the Caribbean and discovers a hidden community of modern pirates. ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | journalist ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Caribbean Sea
ⓘ
Caribbean islands ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: The Island Description of subject: The Island is a 1979 thriller novel by Peter Benchley that follows a journalist who uncovers a hidden community of modern-day pirates in the Caribbean.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Island (1980 film)