Mardi
E145045
"Mardi" is an 1849 novel by Herman Melville, known as his first major foray into philosophical and allegorical fiction set in a fantastical South Seas archipelago.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mardi canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268949 — 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: Mardi Context triple: [Herman Melville, notableWork, Mardi]
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MARDI
MARDI is a descent imaging camera on NASA's Curiosity rover that captured high-resolution video of the rover's landing on Mars and helps document the geology of its landing site.
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B.
Perjeta
Perjeta is a monoclonal antibody drug used in combination therapies to treat HER2-positive breast cancer.
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C.
Mon
The Mon are one of the oldest ethnic groups in mainland Southeast Asia, historically influential in the spread of Theravada Buddhism and early state formation in what is now Myanmar and Thailand.
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D.
Wednesday
Wednesday is a professional football club based in Sheffield, England, known as one of the oldest football clubs in the world and a long-time competitor in the English league system.
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MON
MON is the standard abbreviation used for the Montreal Canadiens, the historic National Hockey League team based in Montreal, Quebec.
- 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: Mardi Target entity description: "Mardi" is an 1849 novel by Herman Melville, known as his first major foray into philosophical and allegorical fiction set in a fantastical South Seas archipelago.
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A.
MARDI
MARDI is a descent imaging camera on NASA's Curiosity rover that captured high-resolution video of the rover's landing on Mars and helps document the geology of its landing site.
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B.
Perjeta
Perjeta is a monoclonal antibody drug used in combination therapies to treat HER2-positive breast cancer.
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C.
Mon
The Mon are one of the oldest ethnic groups in mainland Southeast Asia, historically influential in the spread of Theravada Buddhism and early state formation in what is now Myanmar and Thailand.
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D.
Wednesday
Wednesday is a professional football club based in Sheffield, England, known as one of the oldest football clubs in the world and a long-time competitor in the English league system.
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E.
MON
MON is the standard abbreviation used for the Montreal Canadiens, the historic National Hockey League team based in Montreal, Quebec.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| exploresTheme |
identity
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philosophy ⓘ politics ⓘ religion ⓘ truth ⓘ utopianism ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | three volumes ⓘ |
| followsWork | Omoo ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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allegorical fiction ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ sea story ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Mardi: And a Voyage Thither ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Babbalanja
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King Abrazza ⓘ Media ⓘ Taji ⓘ Yillah ⓘ |
| hasForm |
allegory
ⓘ
satire ⓘ travel narrative ⓘ |
| hasImaginaryWorld | yes ⓘ |
| hasMedium | print ⓘ |
| hasSeaVoyage | yes ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
South Seas romance
ⓘ
philosophical romance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Melville’s first major philosophical novel
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early use of symbolic and allegorical method later developed in Moby-Dick ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Mardi: And a Voyage Thither ⓘ |
| precedesWork | Redburn ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1849 ⓘ |
| publisher | Harper & Brothers ⓘ |
| setting |
South Pacific
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surface form:
South Seas
fantastical archipelago ⓘ |
| title | Mardi self-link ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mardi Description of subject: "Mardi" is an 1849 novel by Herman Melville, known as his first major foray into philosophical and allegorical fiction set in a fantastical South Seas archipelago.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.