The Shipping News
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The Shipping News is a 2001 drama film, based on E. Annie Proulx’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, about a troubled man who relocates with his family to a remote Newfoundland fishing village and slowly rebuilds his life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shipping News canonical | 9 |
| The Shipping News (distribution) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5254968 — 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: The Shipping News Context triple: [Alan Heim, edited, The Shipping News]
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A.
The Wake
The Wake is the concluding story arc of Neil Gaiman’s comic series The Sandman, focusing on the aftermath of Dream’s death and the gathering of friends and foes to mourn and reflect on his legacy.
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B.
The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits is a traditional nickname for the U.S. state of Connecticut, reflecting its reputation for conservatism and stable customs.
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C.
The Passenger
"The Passenger" is a 1977 rock song by Iggy Pop, known for its driving rhythm, iconic "la-la-la" chorus, and enduring influence as one of his signature tracks.
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D.
The Passenger
The Passenger is a late-career novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a haunted salvage diver entangled in mystery, guilt, and philosophical inquiry in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide.
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E.
The Lowland
The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
- 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 Shipping News Target entity description: The Shipping News is a 2001 drama film, based on E. Annie Proulx’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, about a troubled man who relocates with his family to a remote Newfoundland fishing village and slowly rebuilds his life.
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A.
The Wake
The Wake is the concluding story arc of Neil Gaiman’s comic series The Sandman, focusing on the aftermath of Dream’s death and the gathering of friends and foes to mourn and reflect on his legacy.
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B.
The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits is a traditional nickname for the U.S. state of Connecticut, reflecting its reputation for conservatism and stable customs.
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C.
The Passenger
"The Passenger" is a 1977 rock song by Iggy Pop, known for its driving rhythm, iconic "la-la-la" chorus, and enduring influence as one of his signature tracks.
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D.
The Passenger
The Passenger is a late-career novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a haunted salvage diver entangled in mystery, guilt, and philosophical inquiry in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide.
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E.
The Lowland
The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | E. Annie Proulx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award |
Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score
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Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score – Christopher Young ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Shipping News (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayedByCateBlanchett | Petal Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayedByJudiDench | Agnis Hamm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayedByJulianneMoore | Wavey Prowse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayedByKevinSpacey | Quoyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Oliver Stapleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Christopher Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Lasse Hallström NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editor | Andrew Mondshein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Newfoundland and Labrador
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romantic drama film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family
ⓘ
grief ⓘ personal redemption ⓘ starting over ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Quoyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A troubled man relocates with his family to a remote Newfoundland fishing village and slowly rebuilds his life. ⓘ |
| producer |
Leslie Holleran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard N. Gladstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Miramax Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | newspaper reporter ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2001-12-18 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 111 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Robert Nelson Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Newfoundland and Labrador
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newfoundland fishing village ⓘ |
| stars |
Cate Blanchett
NERFINISHED
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Judi Dench NERFINISHED ⓘ Julianne Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Spacey NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Postlethwaite NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhys Ifans NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Glenn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Shipping News Description of subject: The Shipping News is a 2001 drama film, based on E. Annie Proulx’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, about a troubled man who relocates with his family to a remote Newfoundland fishing village and slowly rebuilds his life.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Shipping News (distribution)