Moreau's island
E444499
Moreau's island is the remote, isolated setting in H.G. Wells's novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," where disturbing experiments in vivisection and human-animal hybrids take place.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moreau’s island | 4 |
| Moreau's island canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4471879 — 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: Moreau's island Context triple: [Edward Prendick, settingOfExperience, Moreau's island]
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A.
Île Jésus
Île Jésus is a large island in southwestern Quebec, Canada, that forms most of the territory of the city of Laval just north of Montreal.
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B.
Île Foch
Île Foch is one of the remote subantarctic islands in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, forming part of the Kerguelen archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean.
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C.
Kayts Island
Kayts Island is a small island off the northern coast of Sri Lanka, known as part of the Jaffna Islands archipelago with a predominantly Tamil population and historical significance.
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D.
La Blanche Île
La Blanche Île is one of the small islets in the Les Écréhous reef and island group in the English Channel, associated with Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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E.
Île des Faisans
Île des Faisans is a small, uninhabited river island in the Bidasoa River that serves as a unique Franco-Spanish condominium and historical diplomatic site.
- 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: Moreau's island Target entity description: Moreau's island is the remote, isolated setting in H.G. Wells's novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," where disturbing experiments in vivisection and human-animal hybrids take place.
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A.
Île Jésus
Île Jésus is a large island in southwestern Quebec, Canada, that forms most of the territory of the city of Laval just north of Montreal.
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B.
Île Foch
Île Foch is one of the remote subantarctic islands in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, forming part of the Kerguelen archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean.
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C.
Kayts Island
Kayts Island is a small island off the northern coast of Sri Lanka, known as part of the Jaffna Islands archipelago with a predominantly Tamil population and historical significance.
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D.
La Blanche Île
La Blanche Île is one of the small islets in the Les Écréhous reef and island group in the English Channel, associated with Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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E.
Île des Faisans
Île des Faisans is a small, uninhabited river island in the Bidasoa River that serves as a unique Franco-Spanish condominium and historical diplomatic site.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional island
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literary location ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Island of Doctor Moreau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Doctor Moreau
NERFINISHED
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Edward Prendick NERFINISHED ⓘ M'ling NERFINISHED ⓘ Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
gothic fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| countryOfAuthor | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | H. G. Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
isolated
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remote ⓘ |
| endsWithEvent | destruction and breakdown of Moreau's regime ⓘ |
| featuresStructure |
Moreau's laboratory
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enclosure for Beast Folk ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceDate | 1896 ⓘ |
| governedBy | Doctor Moreau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationSettingIn | film adaptations of The Island of Doctor Moreau ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | the island of Doctor Moreau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical ⓘ |
| hasMoralOrder | The Law of the Beast Folk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTerrain |
beach
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jungle ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
blurred boundary between humans and animals
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cruelty of vivisection ⓘ degeneration and regression ⓘ ethical limits of science ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy |
Beast Folk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Doctor Moreau NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Prendick NERFINISHED ⓘ Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | contemporary debates on vivisection in the 19th century ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalRegion | South Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
closed environment for moral and philosophical exploration
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site of scientific transgression ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | The Island of Doctor Moreau adaptations and retellings ⓘ |
| primaryActivityOnIsland |
creation of human-animal hybrids
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vivisection experiments ⓘ |
| settingOf | The Island of Doctor Moreau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | ocean ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
hubris of scientific experimentation
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isolation of unethical science ⓘ |
| timePeriodInStory | late 19th century ⓘ |
| usedFor | experiments in pain and transformation ⓘ |
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Subject: Moreau's island Description of subject: Moreau's island is the remote, isolated setting in H.G. Wells's novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," where disturbing experiments in vivisection and human-animal hybrids take place.
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