moby dick

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• is_a_type_ofSperm Whale

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  Moby Dick is specifically identified as a Sperm Whale of 'uncommon magnitude and malignity'.

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  a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair presumption, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other than Moby Dick.

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• injuredAhab

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  Moby Dick was responsible for dismasting Ahab and causing him to lose his leg, leading to his enduring physical disability.

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  it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now.

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• referenced_byCaptain Ahab

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  “Hast thou seen the White Whale?” demanded Ahab

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  Gabriel solemnly warned the captain against attacking the White Whale

• referenced_byMacey

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  Macey succeeded in persuading five men to man his boat. With them he pushed off; and, after much weary pulling, and many perilous, unsuccessful onsets, he at last succeeded in getting one iron fast

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• same_as01KJNXM593YGTRYXMPBXHM90S3

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  Both entities are labeled 'moby dick'. The source describes a 'legendary white sperm whale' known for its size and features, and its role in injuring Captain Ahab. Candidate 1 describes 'The legendary White Whale' as the 'ultimate, obsessive object of the Pequod's entire whaling voyage'. The properties and relationships are highly consistent, referring to the same iconic whale from Moby Dick.

• referenced_byAhab

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  the very course Ahab is to run for Moby Dick?

• referenced_byMissing Whale-boat (Rachel's)

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• attacksAhab's Boat

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  Moby Dick uses a deliberate stratagem to attack Ahab's boat, shooting its head lengthwise beneath it.

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  Moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat.

• damagesAhab's Boat

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  Moby Dick, in a manner likened to a biting shark, takes the boat's bows into its mouth, causing it to thrill and curl high up.

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  the whale obliquely lying on his back, in the manner of a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his mouth, so that the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into the open air, and one of the teeth caught in a row-lock.

• threatensAhab

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  Moby Dick's jaw comes within six inches of Ahab's head, placing him in immediate peril.

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  The bluish pearl-white of the inside of the jaw was within six inches of Ahab’s head, and reached higher than that.

• destroysAhab's Boat

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  Moby Dick bites Ahab's boat completely in twain, transforming it into two floating wrecks.

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  bit the craft completely in twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two floating wrecks.

• performsPitchpoling

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  Moby Dick exhibits the unique motion of 'pitchpoling,' thrusting its head up and down and revolving its body.

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  Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows

• is_aSperm Whale

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  Moby Dick is an example of a sperm whale, as indicated by the description of its peculiar motion.

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  This motion is peculiar to the sperm whale.

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• reveals_presence_byBreaching

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  Moby Dick makes his presence known through the dramatic act of breaching, rather than calm spoutings.

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  Moby Dick bodily burst into view! For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous phenomenon of breaching.

• is_aSperm Whale

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  Moby Dick is identified as a Sperm Whale, characterized by its powerful breaching behavior.

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  Rising with his utmost velocity from the furthest depths, the Sperm Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element of air

• attacksAhab's boat

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  Moby Dick turns and aggressively attacks Ahab's boat and the other whaleboats with open jaws and a lashing tail.

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• is_fastened_to_byWhaling Lines

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  Whaling lines are attached to Moby Dick, entangling the boats and equipment.

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  the slack of the three lines now fast to him, that they foreshortened, and, of themselves, warped the devoted boats towards the planted irons in him

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• inflicted_wound_uponCaptain Ahab

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  Moby Dick is identified as the source of Captain Ahab's 'tormenting wound', which drives Ahab's relentless pursuit.

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  now, that he found himself hard by the very latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted

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• killsRadney

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  Moby Dick rushed into a maelstrom, seized Radney between its jaws, and plunged underwater, killing him.

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• causes_injury_toCaptain Boomer

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  Moby Dick inflicted a severe injury upon Captain Boomer, leading to the loss of his arm.

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  caught me just here, I say, and bore me down to Hell’s flames, I was thinking; when, when, all of a sudden, thank the good God, the barb ript its way along the flesh—clear along the whole length of my arm

• bitesFast-line

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  Moby Dick furiously bit at the fast-line, attempting to sever it and free itself.

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  goes to snapping furiously at my fast-line!

• destroysMounttop's Boat

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  The whale's tail came down like a 'Lima tower', cutting Mounttop's boat into splinters.

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  down comes the tail like a Lima tower, cutting my boat in two

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• swims_pastPequod

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  Moby Dick, swimming with great velocity, almost passes the Pequod, which had been moving in the opposite direction.

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  Moby Dick was now again steadily swimming forward; and had almost passed the ship

• is_accompanied_bySharks

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  Unpitying sharks swim alongside Ahab's boat, accompanying the White Whale's movements.

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  the unpitying sharks accompanied him

• rolls_againstAhab's Whaleboat

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  Moby Dick spasmodically rolls its flank against the bow of Ahab's boat, causing it to cant over.

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  Moby Dick sideways writhed; spasmodically rolled his nigh flank against the bow

• attacksPequod

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  Moby Dick, seeing the Pequod as the source of its persecutions, bears down upon and smites its advancing prow.

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  he bore down upon its advancing prow, smiting his jaws amid fiery showers of foam

• turns_to_meetPequod

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  Starbuck observes that the whale has turned to directly confront the ship, its 'unappeasable brow' driving towards them.

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  He turns to meet us! Oh, his unappeasable brow drives on towards one

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• smoteMacey

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  Moby Dick rose from the sea and violently struck Macey, sending him flying into the air.

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  the luckless mate, so full of furious life, was smitten bodily into the air

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• is_the_dismemberer_ofAhab

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  Ahab identifies Moby Dick as the one responsible for his dismemberment, specifically the loss of his leg.

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  I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.

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• referenced_byTashtego

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  I saw him almost that same instant, sir, that Captain Ahab did, and I cried out,” said Tashtego

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• potentially_amongSperm Whale

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  The crew considers the possibility that the infamous Moby Dick might be swimming within the vast caravan of Sperm Whales.

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  Moby Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese!

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• referenced_byDaggoo

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  yet is this Moby Dick? thought Daggoo. Again the phantom went down, but on re-appearing once more, with a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod, the negro yelled out—“There! there again! there she breaches! right ahead! The White Whale, the White Whale!”

• referenced_byStarbuck

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  Almost rather had I seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to have seen thee, thou white ghost!”

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• attacksWhale-boats

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  Moby Dick, maddened by fresh irons, churns his tail among the boats, flailing them apart and damaging them.

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  he came churning his tail among the boats; and once more flailed them apart; spilling out the irons and lances from the two mates’ boats, and dashing in one side of the upper part of their bows

• sparesAhab's Boat

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  During his attack, Moby Dick damages other whale-boats but leaves Ahab's boat almost entirely without a scar, an unusual occurrence.

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  leaving Ahab’s almost without a scar.

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• is_involved_withJudgments of God

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  The general interest in Moby Dick was heightened by a circumstance of the Town-Ho’s story which seemed to obscurely involve the whale with 'judgments of God'.

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  obscurely to involve with the whale a certain wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of God which at times are said to overtake some men.

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• referenced_byWhite Whale

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  What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid. Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick

• referenced_byThe Whiteness of the Whale

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  It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.

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