Jaws (novel)
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Jaws (novel) is a 1974 thriller by Peter Benchley about a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town, which became a bestseller and inspired the famous film adaptation.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jaws (novel) canonical | 15 |
| Jaws | 5 |
| Jaws (1974 novel) | 2 |
| novel "Jaws" | 2 |
| Jaws novel universe | 1 |
| novel "Jaws" (1974) | 1 |
| novel Jaws | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T167445 — 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: Jaws (novel) Context triple: [Jaws, basedOn, Jaws (novel)]
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A.
Jaws
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg about a great white shark that terrorizes a New England beach town.
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B.
The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
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C.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells that explores themes of vivisection, morality, and the boundaries between humans and animals on a remote island ruled by a mad scientist.
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D.
Monsters of the Midway
Monsters of the Midway is the iconic nickname for the Chicago Bears’ historically dominant, hard-hitting defenses.
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E.
Cocoon
Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction comedy-drama film about a group of elderly people who regain youth and vitality after encountering alien life, directed by Ron Howard.
- 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: Jaws (novel) Target entity description: Jaws (novel) is a 1974 thriller by Peter Benchley about a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town, which became a bestseller and inspired the famous film adaptation.
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A.
Jaws
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg about a great white shark that terrorizes a New England beach town.
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B.
The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
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C.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells that explores themes of vivisection, morality, and the boundaries between humans and animals on a remote island ruled by a mad scientist.
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D.
Monsters of the Midway
Monsters of the Midway is the iconic nickname for the Chicago Bears’ historically dominant, hard-hitting defenses.
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E.
Cocoon
Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction comedy-drama film about a group of elderly people who regain youth and vitality after encountering alien life, directed by Ron Howard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Jaws
ⓘ
surface form:
Jaws (film)
|
| author | Peter Benchley ⓘ |
| bestsellerStatus | bestseller ⓘ |
| character |
Ellen Brody
ⓘ
Larry Vaughn ⓘ Martin Brody ⓘ Matt Hooper ⓘ Quint ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Paul Bacon ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
suspense fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Jaws
ⓘ
surface form:
Jaws (film)
|
| hasAudiobook | Jaws (audiobook adaptation) ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-385-08654-7 ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
The Deep
ⓘ
surface form:
The Deep (novel) (thematically related Benchley work)
|
| influenced |
public perception of great white sharks
ⓘ
shark-related popular culture ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | helped popularize the summer blockbuster concept through its film adaptation ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | great white shark ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a great white shark terrorizing a resort town
ⓘ
inspiring the blockbuster film Jaws ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Jaws (novel)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Jaws
|
| pageCount | 311 ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| protagonist | Martin Brody ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setIn |
Amity Island
ⓘ
New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York (state)
fictional seaside resort town ⓘ |
| subject |
sharks
ⓘ
small-town politics ⓘ tourism industry ⓘ |
| theme |
economic interests versus public safety
ⓘ
fear and mass hysteria ⓘ man versus nature ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Jaws (novel) Description of subject: Jaws (novel) is a 1974 thriller by Peter Benchley about a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town, which became a bestseller and inspired the famous film adaptation.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jaws
this entity surface form:
Jaws
this entity surface form:
Jaws
this entity surface form:
novel "Jaws"
this entity surface form:
novel "Jaws"
this entity surface form:
Jaws (1974 novel)
this entity surface form:
Jaws
this entity surface form:
Jaws
this entity surface form:
novel "Jaws" (1974)
this entity surface form:
Jaws (1974 novel)
this entity surface form:
novel Jaws
this entity surface form:
Jaws novel universe
subject surface form:
Peter Benchley