Long John Silver
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Long John Silver is a cunning, one-legged pirate and master manipulator who serves as the charismatic antihero in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201289 — 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: Long John Silver Context triple: [Treasure Island (1934 film), mainCharacter, Long John Silver]
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Captain Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow is the eccentric, cunning pirate captain and central antihero of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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Jim Hawkins
Jim Hawkins is the adventurous young protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel "Treasure Island," whose discovery of a treasure map sets the story’s swashbuckling quest in motion.
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C.
Colonel Jack
"Colonel Jack" is an early 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe that follows the morally complex life and adventures of a London pickpocket who rises through crime, transportation, and eventual reform.
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D.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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E.
Richard Parker
Richard Parker is the Bengal tiger who becomes the central animal companion and symbolic figure in Yann Martel’s novel *Life of Pi*.
- 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: Long John Silver Target entity description: Long John Silver is a cunning, one-legged pirate and master manipulator who serves as the charismatic antihero in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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A.
Captain Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow is the eccentric, cunning pirate captain and central antihero of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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B.
Jim Hawkins
Jim Hawkins is the adventurous young protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel "Treasure Island," whose discovery of a treasure map sets the story’s swashbuckling quest in motion.
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C.
Colonel Jack
"Colonel Jack" is an early 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe that follows the morally complex life and adventures of a London pickpocket who rises through crime, transportation, and eventual reform.
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D.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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E.
Richard Parker
Richard Parker is the Bengal tiger who becomes the central animal companion and symbolic figure in Yann Martel’s novel *Life of Pi*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antihero
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ pirate ⓘ |
| alignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Treasure Island ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hispaniola
ⓘ
Treasure Island (fictional island) ⓘ
surface form:
Treasure Island (island)
|
| basedIn | 18th-century maritime world ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in Treasure Island
ⓘ
Fictional pirates ⓘ Literary villains ⓘ Male literary characters ⓘ |
| commands | mutinous crew on the Hispaniola ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| employer | himself ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Treasure Island ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1883 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Barbecue ⓘ |
| hasBodyPartProsthetic | wooden leg (implied) ⓘ |
| hasPet | parrot ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalCondition | one-legged ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
charismatic
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cunning ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| influenced | later fictional pirates ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | adventure fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | iconic pirate archetype ⓘ |
| loyalty | to himself ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
charismatic leadership of pirates
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complex moral ambiguity ⓘ deception and manipulation ⓘ |
| occupation | pirate ⓘ |
| petName | Captain Flint ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWith Jim Hawkins | mentor-like yet adversarial ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Jim Hawkins ⓘ |
| residence | Bristol ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
antihero
ⓘ
primary antagonist ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | Black ⓘ |
| spouseResidence | Bristol ⓘ |
| uses | crutch ⓘ |
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: Long John Silver Description of subject: Long John Silver is a cunning, one-legged pirate and master manipulator who serves as the charismatic antihero in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Silver
this entity surface form:
Long John Silver as ship’s cook
this entity surface form:
Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1950 film)
this entity surface form:
Long John Silver in Long John Silver (1954 film)
this entity surface form:
John Silver (initially adversarial)
this entity surface form:
John Silver