Manx Maid
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Manx Maid was a passenger ferry operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, serving routes to and from the Isle of Man.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Manx Maid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10132620 — 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: Manx Maid Context triple: [Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, hasShip, Manx Maid]
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A.
The Manxman
The Manxman is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Hall Caine’s novel about a tragic love triangle on the Isle of Man.
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B.
Lady of the Sea
Lady of the Sea is a reverential epithet for the ancient Northwest Semitic goddess Asherah, associated with the sea, fertility, and motherhood.
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C.
Rusty Trawler
Rusty Trawler is a wealthy, socially prominent yet somewhat ridiculous character in Truman Capote’s novella "Breakfast at Tiffany’s."
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D.
Lady Isle
Lady Isle is a small, uninhabited island in the Firth of Clyde off the west coast of Scotland, known for its birdlife and maritime navigation beacons.
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E.
Maiden Bradley
Maiden Bradley is a small historic village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, known for its rural setting and long association with the Seymour family.
- 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: Manx Maid Target entity description: Manx Maid was a passenger ferry operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, serving routes to and from the Isle of Man.
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A.
The Manxman
The Manxman is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Hall Caine’s novel about a tragic love triangle on the Isle of Man.
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B.
Lady of the Sea
Lady of the Sea is a reverential epithet for the ancient Northwest Semitic goddess Asherah, associated with the sea, fertility, and motherhood.
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C.
Rusty Trawler
Rusty Trawler is a wealthy, socially prominent yet somewhat ridiculous character in Truman Capote’s novella "Breakfast at Tiffany’s."
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D.
Lady Isle
Lady Isle is a small, uninhabited island in the Firth of Clyde off the west coast of Scotland, known for its birdlife and maritime navigation beacons.
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E.
Maiden Bradley
Maiden Bradley is a small historic village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, known for its rural setting and long association with the Seymour family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
passenger ferry
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ship ⓘ |
| beam | about 50 ft ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flag | Red Ensign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDesign | roll-on/roll-off ferry ⓘ |
| hasHullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| hasPropulsion | diesel engine ⓘ |
| homePort | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | about 330 ft ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Isle of Man (Manx) heritage ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company fleet ⓘ |
| operatedOn | Isle of Man routes ⓘ |
| operator | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | over 1,000 passengers ⓘ |
| routeServed |
Isle of Man – Fleetwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Isle of Man – Heysham NERFINISHED ⓘ Isle of Man – Liverpool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedPort |
Douglas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fleetwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Heysham NERFINISHED ⓘ Liverpool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceArea | Irish Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1962 ⓘ |
| serviceType | scheduled ferry service ⓘ |
| serviceWithdrawal | 1984 ⓘ |
| tonnage | about 3,000 gross register tons ⓘ |
| usedFor |
passenger transport
ⓘ
vehicle transport ⓘ |
| vehicleCapacity | roll-on/roll-off vehicles ⓘ |
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: Manx Maid Description of subject: Manx Maid was a passenger ferry operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, serving routes to and from the Isle of Man.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.