Jaws
E496432
Jaws is a 1974 thriller novel by Peter Benchley, best known for its story of a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town and inspiring the iconic 1975 film adaptation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jaws canonical | 9 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | Steven Spielberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| author | Peter Benchley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Martin Brody
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matt Hooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Quint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtDepicts | shark approaching swimmer ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
suspense fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Jaws (1975 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmFranchiseOrigin | Jaws film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
The Deep
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
commercial interests versus public safety
ⓘ
fear and paranoia ⓘ man versus nature ⓘ the unknown depths of the ocean ⓘ |
| influenced |
popular perception of sharks
ⓘ
summer blockbuster culture (via film adaptation) ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | shark attacks ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | great white shark ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
bestseller
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a great white shark terrorizing a resort town
ⓘ
inspiring the 1975 film Jaws ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 300 ⓘ |
| protagonist | Martin Brody NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | police chief ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting | Amity Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingType | seaside resort town ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
fear of nature
ⓘ
shark attacks ⓘ small-town politics ⓘ tourism economy ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Jaws is a 1974 thriller novel by Peter Benchley, best known for its story of a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town and inspiring the iconic 1975 film adaptation.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Peter Benchley