The Lightship
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"The Lightship" is a 1985 drama film, based on a Siegfried Lenz novella, about a morally conflicted captain whose isolated vessel is taken over by criminals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lightship canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9519368 — 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 Lightship Context triple: [Klaus Maria Brandauer, notableWork, The Lightship]
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Seafarers
The Seafarers is a 1953 short documentary film and one of Stanley Kubrick’s early non-fiction works, focusing on the lives and organization of merchant seamen.
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C.
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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D.
Ships in a Calm
Ships in a Calm is a serene 17th-century maritime painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Willem van de Velde the Younger, celebrated for its meticulous detail and atmospheric depiction of ships at rest.
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E.
Lightship Overfalls
Lightship Overfalls is a historic lightship museum moored in Lewes, Delaware, that once served as a floating lighthouse to aid maritime navigation.
- 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 Lightship Target entity description: "The Lightship" is a 1985 drama film, based on a Siegfried Lenz novella, about a morally conflicted captain whose isolated vessel is taken over by criminals.
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Seafarers
The Seafarers is a 1953 short documentary film and one of Stanley Kubrick’s early non-fiction works, focusing on the lives and organization of merchant seamen.
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C.
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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D.
Ships in a Calm
Ships in a Calm is a serene 17th-century maritime painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Willem van de Velde the Younger, celebrated for its meticulous detail and atmospheric depiction of ships at rest.
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E.
Lightship Overfalls
Lightship Overfalls is a historic lightship museum moored in Lewes, Delaware, that once served as a floating lighthouse to aid maritime navigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Lightship (novella) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Siegfried Lenz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Captain Miller
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Caspary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Charly Steinberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Stanley Myers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jerzy Skolimowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Cannon Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Castle Hill Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Robert Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
authority and responsibility
ⓘ
ethics of non-violence ⓘ father–son conflict ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
hostage situation on a ship
ⓘ
moral conflict ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A morally conflicted captain on an isolated lightship has his vessel taken over by criminals. ⓘ |
| producer | Robert H. Solo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | CBS Theatrical Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Ida Fink
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerzy Skolimowski NERFINISHED ⓘ William M. Kelley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | lightship ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialType | novella adaptation ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Arliss Howard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Badja Djola NERFINISHED ⓘ Klaus Maria Brandauer NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Duvall NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Bower NERFINISHED ⓘ William Forsythe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Lightship 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 Lightship Description of subject: "The Lightship" is a 1985 drama film, based on a Siegfried Lenz novella, about a morally conflicted captain whose isolated vessel is taken over by criminals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.