The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea
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The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea is an 1840 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, part of his Leatherstocking Tales series, featuring the frontier scout Natty Bumppo in adventures around the Great Lakes region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea canonical | 1 |
| The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea: A Tale of the Frontier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4208936 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea Context triple: [The Pathfinder, hasAlternativeTitle, The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea]
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Letters of a Traveler
"Letters of a Traveler" is a notable literary work by Georgian writer and national figure Akaki Tsereteli, reflecting his observations and experiences through travel.
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Letters of a Traveler
"Letters of a Traveler" is a notable literary work by Georgian writer and national figure Ilia Chavchavadze, reflecting his observations and ideas through travel writings.
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C.
Beyond the Horizon
"Beyond the Horizon" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning early play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that explores family conflict, unfulfilled dreams, and the consequences of choices on a New England farm.
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Beyond the Horizon
"Beyond the Horizon" is a song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album *Modern Times*, noted for its romantic, old-time ballad style and lyrical themes of longing and transcendence.
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E.
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean is the official multi-volume account of Captain James Cook’s final expedition, detailing his explorations in the North Pacific and the circumstances leading to his death in Hawaii.
- 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: The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea Target entity description: The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea is an 1840 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, part of his Leatherstocking Tales series, featuring the frontier scout Natty Bumppo in adventures around the Great Lakes region.
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A.
Letters of a Traveler
"Letters of a Traveler" is a notable literary work by Georgian writer and national figure Akaki Tsereteli, reflecting his observations and experiences through travel.
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B.
Letters of a Traveler
"Letters of a Traveler" is a notable literary work by Georgian writer and national figure Ilia Chavchavadze, reflecting his observations and ideas through travel writings.
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C.
Beyond the Horizon
"Beyond the Horizon" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning early play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that explores family conflict, unfulfilled dreams, and the consequences of choices on a New England farm.
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D.
Beyond the Horizon
"Beyond the Horizon" is a song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album *Modern Times*, noted for its romantic, old-time ballad style and lyrical themes of longing and transcendence.
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E.
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean is the official multi-volume account of Captain James Cook’s final expedition, detailing his explorations in the North Pacific and the circumstances leading to his death in Hawaii.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
ⓘ
literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Pathfinder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea ⓘ
surface form:
The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea: A Tale of the Frontier
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| author | James Fenimore Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Arrowhead
ⓘ
Cap ⓘ Jasper Western ⓘ June ⓘ Mabel Dunham NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Duncan ⓘ Natty Bumppo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergeant Dunham ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter | Natty Bumppo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1840 ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Deerslayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
frontier fiction
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sea story ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
duty and honor
ⓘ
frontier life ⓘ love and renunciation ⓘ wilderness and civilization ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| literarySeriesOrder | third Leatherstocking Tales novel by publication ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Natty Bumppo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | Leatherstocking Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Last of the Mohicans ONNED1 ⓘ |
| protagonistName | Natty Bumppo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | frontier scout ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1840 ⓘ |
| publisher | Carey & Lea ONNED1 ⓘ |
| series | Leatherstocking Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | North American frontier ONNED1 ⓘ |
| setting |
Great Lakes region
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Lake Ontario ⓘ frontier forts ⓘ |
| subject | relations between settlers and Native Americans ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
18th century
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French and Indian War (as part of British America) ⓘ
surface form:
French and Indian War
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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: The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea Description of subject: The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea is an 1840 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, part of his Leatherstocking Tales series, featuring the frontier scout Natty Bumppo in adventures around the Great Lakes region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea: A Tale of the Frontier