The White Seal
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"The White Seal" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling, part of *The Jungle Book* collection, that follows a rare white-furred seal named Kotick on his quest to find a safe haven free from human hunters for his fellow seals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The White Seal canonical | 2 |
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collection | The Jungle Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Kotick's mother
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Matkah NERFINISHED ⓘ Sea Catch NERFINISHED ⓘ Sea Vitch NERFINISHED ⓘ human seal hunters ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | short story collection ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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animal fiction ⓘ children's literature ⓘ |
| hasAnimalProtagonist | seal ⓘ |
| hasMoral |
humans should protect rather than exploit animals
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leaders may need to leave home to find safety for their people ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
children
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young readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Kotick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | The Jungle Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Kotick, a rare white-furred seal, searches the seas to find a safe place where seals will not be hunted by humans. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Kotick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Bering Sea
NERFINISHED
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seal rookeries ⓘ |
| theme |
animal protection
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courage ⓘ human exploitation of nature ⓘ leadership ⓘ search for a safe haven ⓘ |
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 White Seal Description of subject: "The White Seal" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling, part of *The Jungle Book* collection, that follows a rare white-furred seal named Kotick on his quest to find a safe haven free from human hunters for his fellow seals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Jungle Book