The Sea Hawk
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The Sea Hawk is a 1940 swashbuckling adventure film starring Errol Flynn as a dashing privateer in the service of Queen Elizabeth I.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Sea Hawk canonical | 3 |
| The Sea Hawk (1940 film) | 1 |
| The Sea Hawk (screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10739940 — 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 Sea Hawk Context triple: [Errol Flynn, notableWork, The Sea Hawk]
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A.
The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk is a 1924 silent swashbuckler film adaptation of Rafael Sabatini’s novel, known for its seafaring adventure and pirate-themed action.
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B.
The Eagle of the Sea
The Eagle of the Sea is a 1926 American silent adventure film starring Rod La Rocque, known for its seafaring action and romantic drama.
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C.
The Letter of Marque
The Letter of Marque is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian in the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Captain Jack Aubrey’s efforts to restore his honor and fortune while commanding a privateer after being struck off the Royal Navy list.
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D.
The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves is a 1980 British war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, and David Niven, depicting a covert World War II commando raid by aging veterans against German ships in neutral Goa.
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E.
The Crimson Pirate
The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 swashbuckling adventure film starring Burt Lancaster as a flamboyant pirate in a colorful, comedic take on the genre.
- 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 Sea Hawk Target entity description: The Sea Hawk is a 1940 swashbuckling adventure film starring Errol Flynn as a dashing privateer in the service of Queen Elizabeth I.
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A.
The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk is a 1924 silent swashbuckler film adaptation of Rafael Sabatini’s novel, known for its seafaring adventure and pirate-themed action.
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B.
The Eagle of the Sea
The Eagle of the Sea is a 1926 American silent adventure film starring Rod La Rocque, known for its seafaring action and romantic drama.
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C.
The Letter of Marque
The Letter of Marque is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian in the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Captain Jack Aubrey’s efforts to restore his honor and fortune while commanding a privateer after being struck off the Royal Navy list.
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D.
The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves is a 1980 British war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, and David Niven, depicting a covert World War II commando raid by aging veterans against German ships in neutral Goa.
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E.
The Crimson Pirate
The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 swashbuckling adventure film starring Burt Lancaster as a flamboyant pirate in a colorful, comedic take on the genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Sea Hawk (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Rafael Sabatini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Doña Maria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geoffrey Thorpe NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Wolfingham NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Elizabeth I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Sol Polito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Michael Curtiz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Amy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
ⓘ
swashbuckler ⓘ |
| leadActor | Errol Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Erich Wolfgang Korngold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's musical score
ⓘ
elaborate sea battle sequences ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| oscarCategoryNomination |
Best Original Score
ⓘ
Best Sound Recording ⓘ |
| oscarNominated | true ⓘ |
| portrays |
Anglo-Spanish rivalry
ⓘ
privateering ⓘ |
| portraysBy |
Errol Flynn as Geoffrey Thorpe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Hal B. Wallis
ⓘ
Jack L. Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1940-07-01 (approximate mid-1940 release) ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 127 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Howard Koch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seton I. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish Main NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alan Hale Sr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brenda Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Claude Rains NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald Crisp NERFINISHED ⓘ Errol Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ Flora Robson NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Daniell NERFINISHED ⓘ Una O'Connor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Sea Hawk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Sea Hawk Description of subject: The Sea Hawk is a 1940 swashbuckling adventure film starring Errol Flynn as a dashing privateer in the service of Queen Elizabeth I.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Errol Flynn
this entity surface form:
The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
this entity surface form:
The Sea Hawk (screenplay)