Mary Celeste
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Mary Celeste was an American merchant brigantine found mysteriously abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872, becoming one of history’s most famous maritime mysteries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Celeste canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9258920 — 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: Mary Celeste Context triple: [The Haunting of the Mary Celeste, basedOn, Mary Celeste]
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A.
Arielle Ship
Arielle Ship is an American soccer forward known for her standout collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequent professional play in the National Women's Soccer League.
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B.
HMS Terror
HMS Terror was a British Royal Navy bomb vessel later converted for polar exploration, most famously lost with all hands during Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
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C.
Charles W. Morgan
Charles W. Morgan is a historic 19th-century American whaling ship, renowned as the world’s oldest surviving commercial whaler.
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D.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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E.
SS Great Western
SS Great Western was a pioneering 19th-century steamship that became one of the first successful transatlantic ocean liners, showcasing Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s innovative maritime engineering.
- 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: Mary Celeste Target entity description: Mary Celeste was an American merchant brigantine found mysteriously abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872, becoming one of history’s most famous maritime mysteries.
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A.
Arielle Ship
Arielle Ship is an American soccer forward known for her standout collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequent professional play in the National Women's Soccer League.
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B.
HMS Terror
HMS Terror was a British Royal Navy bomb vessel later converted for polar exploration, most famously lost with all hands during Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
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C.
Charles W. Morgan
Charles W. Morgan is a historic 19th-century American whaling ship, renowned as the world’s oldest surviving commercial whaler.
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D.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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E.
SS Great Western
SS Great Western was a pioneering 19th-century steamship that became one of the first successful transatlantic ocean liners, showcasing Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s innovative maritime engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brigantine
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ghost ship ⓘ merchant ship ⓘ |
| beam | about 25.7 feet ⓘ |
| captain | Benjamin Briggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cargo | denatured alcohol ⓘ |
| cargoQuantity | about 1,701 barrels of alcohol ⓘ |
| conditionWhenFound |
lifeboat missing
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no crew or passengers aboard ⓘ seaworthy ⓘ under partial sail ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | wooden hull ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| crewCountOnFinalVoyage | 7 crew members ⓘ |
| crewStatus | crew and passengers never found ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
inspired fictionalized accounts by Arthur Conan Doyle
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subject of numerous books and articles ⓘ |
| depth | about 16.2 feet ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Dei Gratia ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 4 December 1872 ⓘ |
| discoveryLocation |
Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
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between the Azores and Portugal ⓘ |
| famousFor |
being a classic maritime mystery
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being found abandoned and seaworthy ⓘ |
| fate | deliberately wrecked for insurance fraud ⓘ |
| finalVoyageDepartureDate | 7 November 1872 ⓘ |
| finalVoyageDeparturePort | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flag | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedDestination | Genoa, Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterUse | continued in commercial service after 1872 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1861 ⓘ |
| launchPlace | Spencer’s Island, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalProceeding | salvage hearing in Gibraltar ⓘ |
| length | about 103 feet ⓘ |
| mystery | crew disappearance unexplained ⓘ |
| nameChange | renamed to Mary Celeste in 1869 ⓘ |
| notablePassenger |
Sarah Briggs
NERFINISHED
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Sophia Matilda Briggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalName | Amazon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | James H. Winchester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passengersOnFinalVoyage | 2 passengers ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| registrationPort | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rigging | two-masted brigantine ⓘ |
| salvageOutcome | salvage award granted to Dei Gratia crew ⓘ |
| shipType | merchant brigantine ⓘ |
| tonnage | about 282 gross register tons ⓘ |
| wreckDate | 1885 ⓘ |
| wreckLocation | off the coast of Haiti ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mary Celeste Description of subject: Mary Celeste was an American merchant brigantine found mysteriously abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872, becoming one of history’s most famous maritime mysteries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.