Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia
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"Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia" is an early plot event in L. Frank Baum’s novel *Ozma of Oz* that sets the stage for Dorothy’s new adventure in a strange land.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7628452 — 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: Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia Context triple: [Ozma of Oz, plotElement, Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia]
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A.
John Hudson set adrift
"John Hudson set adrift" refers to the presumed fate of explorer Henry Hudson’s son John, who was cast away in a small boat during the 1611 mutiny in Hudson Bay and never seen again.
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B.
Marooned
Marooned is a 1969 science fiction drama film about stranded astronauts in space, directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, and David Janssen.
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C.
Ship to Wreck
"Ship to Wreck" is a 2015 indie rock song by Florence and the Machine, known for its nautical metaphors and exploration of self-destructive behavior within relationships.
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D.
The Shipwreck
The Shipwreck is a dramatic 18th-century maritime painting by French artist Joseph Vernet, renowned for its vivid depiction of storm-tossed seas and human struggle against nature.
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E.
shipwreck of the Tsimtsum
The shipwreck of the Tsimtsum is the catastrophic maritime disaster in "Life of Pi" that strands the protagonist at sea and sets the novel’s survival story in motion.
- 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: Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia Target entity description: "Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia" is an early plot event in L. Frank Baum’s novel *Ozma of Oz* that sets the stage for Dorothy’s new adventure in a strange land.
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A.
John Hudson set adrift
"John Hudson set adrift" refers to the presumed fate of explorer Henry Hudson’s son John, who was cast away in a small boat during the 1611 mutiny in Hudson Bay and never seen again.
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B.
Marooned
Marooned is a 1969 science fiction drama film about stranded astronauts in space, directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, and David Janssen.
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C.
Ship to Wreck
"Ship to Wreck" is a 2015 indie rock song by Florence and the Machine, known for its nautical metaphors and exploration of self-destructive behavior within relationships.
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D.
The Shipwreck
The Shipwreck is a dramatic 18th-century maritime painting by French artist Joseph Vernet, renowned for its vivid depiction of storm-tossed seas and human struggle against nature.
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E.
shipwreck of the Tsimtsum
The shipwreck of the Tsimtsum is the catastrophic maritime disaster in "Life of Pi" that strands the protagonist at sea and sets the novel’s survival story in motion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalEvent
ⓘ
literaryPlotPoint ⓘ narrativeIncitingIncident ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Ozma of Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfWork | L. Frank Baum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causesSeparationFrom | Uncle Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeElement | displacementToMagicalWorld ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter |
Dorothy Gale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Uncle Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy ⓘ |
| involves | shipwreck ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leadsTo |
Dorothy arriving in a strange land
ⓘ
beginningOfDorothyNewAdventure ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Land of Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativePosition | earlyEventInStory ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | setsStageForAdventure ⓘ |
| occursDuringJourneyTo | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Oz series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedes |
Dorothy discovering the land of Ev
ⓘ
Dorothy meeting Princess Ozma ⓘ Dorothy meeting Tik-Tok ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 1907 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkFollows | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWorkPrecededBy | The Marvelous Land of Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingType | seaVoyage ⓘ |
| targetAudienceOfWork | children ⓘ |
| workInSeries | thirdOzNovel ⓘ |
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: Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia Description of subject: "Dorothy is shipwrecked on her way to Australia" is an early plot event in L. Frank Baum’s novel *Ozma of Oz* that sets the stage for Dorothy’s new adventure in a strange land.
Referenced by (1)
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