Billy Budd
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Billy Budd is a posthumously published novella by Herman Melville that tells the tragic story of an innocent sailor caught in a moral and legal conflict aboard a British warship.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Budd canonical | 9 |
| Billy Budd (posthumously published, non-contemporary) | 1 |
| Billy Budd, Foretopman | 1 |
| Billy Budd, Sailor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268955 — 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: Billy Budd Context triple: [Herman Melville, notableWork, Billy Budd]
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A.
White-Jacket
White-Jacket is a semi-autobiographical 1850 novel by Herman Melville that critiques life and discipline aboard a U.S. Navy warship.
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B.
Redburn
Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Herman Melville that follows a young man's coming-of-age voyage as a sailor on a transatlantic ship.
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C.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville that explores themes of slavery, power, and deception through the mysterious encounter between an American captain and a Spanish slave ship.
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E.
The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.
- 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: Billy Budd Target entity description: Billy Budd is a posthumously published novella by Herman Melville that tells the tragic story of an innocent sailor caught in a moral and legal conflict aboard a British warship.
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A.
White-Jacket
White-Jacket is a semi-autobiographical 1850 novel by Herman Melville that critiques life and discipline aboard a U.S. Navy warship.
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B.
Redburn
Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Herman Melville that follows a young man's coming-of-age voyage as a sailor on a transatlantic ship.
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C.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville that explores themes of slavery, power, and deception through the mysterious encounter between an American captain and a Spanish slave ship.
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E.
The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Billy Budd Description of subject: Billy Budd is a posthumously published novella by Herman Melville that tells the tragic story of an innocent sailor caught in a moral and legal conflict aboard a British warship.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Herman Melville
this entity surface form:
Billy Budd (posthumously published, non-contemporary)
this entity surface form:
Billy Budd, Foretopman
this entity surface form:
Billy Budd, Sailor