Daland
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Daland is a sea captain and the father of Senta in Richard Wagner’s opera "Der fliegende Holländer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10126478 — 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: Daland Context triple: [Der fliegende Holländer, character, Daland]
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A.
Phlebas the Phoenician
Phlebas the Phoenician is a drowned sailor whose death serves as a symbolic warning about mortality and the futility of worldly concerns in T.S. Eliot’s poem "The Waste Land."
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B.
Euristhmus
Euristhmus is a genus of eeltail catfishes known for their elongated bodies and marine or estuarine habitats in the Indo-Pacific region.
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C.
Hagnon of Thasos
Hagnon of Thasos was a 5th-century BCE Athenian general and statesman known for leading colonization efforts in northern Greece and playing a key role in the early history of Amphipolis.
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D.
Hylas
Hylas is a fictional interlocutor in George Berkeley’s philosophical dialogues who represents the materialist viewpoint in debates about the nature of reality and perception.
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E.
Hylas
Hylas is a figure from Greek mythology known as the beautiful youth and companion of Heracles who was abducted by water nymphs.
- 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: Daland Target entity description: Daland is a sea captain and the father of Senta in Richard Wagner’s opera "Der fliegende Holländer."
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A.
Phlebas the Phoenician
Phlebas the Phoenician is a drowned sailor whose death serves as a symbolic warning about mortality and the futility of worldly concerns in T.S. Eliot’s poem "The Waste Land."
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B.
Euristhmus
Euristhmus is a genus of eeltail catfishes known for their elongated bodies and marine or estuarine habitats in the Indo-Pacific region.
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C.
Hagnon of Thasos
Hagnon of Thasos was a 5th-century BCE Athenian general and statesman known for leading colonization efforts in northern Greece and playing a key role in the early history of Amphipolis.
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D.
Hylas
Hylas is a fictional interlocutor in George Berkeley’s philosophical dialogues who represents the materialist viewpoint in debates about the nature of reality and perception.
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E.
Hylas
Hylas is a figure from Greek mythology known as the beautiful youth and companion of Heracles who was abducted by water nymphs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
father
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ opera character ⓘ sea captain ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Der fliegende Holländer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAct |
Act I
ⓘ
Act II NERFINISHED ⓘ Act III ⓘ |
| artFormOfWork | opera ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Erik
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ Senta NERFINISHED ⓘ Steersman ⓘ the Dutchman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithShip | Daland’s Norwegian ship ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
opportunistic
ⓘ
paternal ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ |
| composerOfWork | Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceOfWork | 1843 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | Romantic opera ⓘ |
| hasLibrettoLanguage | German ⓘ |
| homePort | Norwegian fjord ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | German ⓘ |
| librettistOfWork | Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| makesBargainWith | the Dutchman ⓘ |
| meetsDutchmanDuring | storm at sea ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
desire for wealth
ⓘ
greed ⓘ |
| nationalityInOpera | Norwegian ⓘ |
| occupation | sea captain ⓘ |
| offersDaughterTo | the Dutchman ⓘ |
| originalTitleOfWork | Der fliegende Holländer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOf | Senta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeInDramatisPersonae | Senta’s father ⓘ |
| premiereDateOfWork | 2 January 1843 ⓘ |
| premiereLocationOfWork | Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereTheatreOfWork | Königliches Hoftheater Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | Norwegian coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| singsInLanguage | German ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfWork | mythic 19th century seafaring era ⓘ |
| translatedTitleOfWork | The Flying Dutchman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | bass ⓘ |
| workBasedOn | legend of the Flying Dutchman ⓘ |
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: Daland Description of subject: Daland is a sea captain and the father of Senta in Richard Wagner’s opera "Der fliegende Holländer."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.