Castaway (book)
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Castaway is a 1983 autobiographical book by British writer Lucy Irvine recounting her year of voluntary isolation on a remote coral island with writer Gerald Kingsland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Castaway | 1 |
| Castaway (book) canonical | 1 |
| Castaway (memoir) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2688246 — 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: Castaway (book) Context triple: [Allan Scott, adaptedWork, Castaway (book)]
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A.
Star Island
Star Island is an exclusive, man-made residential island in Miami Beach, Florida, known for its waterfront luxury mansions and celebrity residents.
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B.
Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 survival drama film starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx executive stranded alone on a deserted island, directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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C.
Ilhas Desertas
Ilhas Desertas is a small, uninhabited Portuguese archipelago near Madeira, known for its rugged landscapes and protected wildlife habitats, including important seabird and monk seal colonies.
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D.
The Island
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.
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E.
Jackson’s Bight
Jackson’s Bight is a popular dive and snorkeling site off Little Cayman, known for its clear waters, vibrant coral reefs, and abundant marine life.
- 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: Castaway (book) Target entity description: Castaway is a 1983 autobiographical book by British writer Lucy Irvine recounting her year of voluntary isolation on a remote coral island with writer Gerald Kingsland.
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A.
Star Island
Star Island is an exclusive, man-made residential island in Miami Beach, Florida, known for its waterfront luxury mansions and celebrity residents.
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B.
Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 survival drama film starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx executive stranded alone on a deserted island, directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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C.
Ilhas Desertas
Ilhas Desertas is a small, uninhabited Portuguese archipelago near Madeira, known for its rugged landscapes and protected wildlife habitats, including important seabird and monk seal colonies.
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D.
The Island
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.
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E.
Jackson’s Bight
Jackson’s Bight is a popular dive and snorkeling site off Little Cayman, known for its clear waters, vibrant coral reefs, and abundant marine life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Castaway (book) Description of subject: Castaway is a 1983 autobiographical book by British writer Lucy Irvine recounting her year of voluntary isolation on a remote coral island with writer Gerald Kingsland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Castaway (memoir)
this entity surface form:
Castaway