concept

ahabs vengeance

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Properties

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description
Captain Ahab's overpowering and destructive obsession to exact revenge upon Moby Dick for dismasting him and taking his leg, transcending the commercial goals of whaling.
effect
drives the ship's mission
motivation
personal retribution
target
Moby Dick

Relationships

  • referenced_byStarbuck
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    questions
    source
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    source_text
    I came here to hunt whales, not my commander’s vengeance.
  • referenced_byPequod's Harpooneers
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    source
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    source_text
    Aye, aye!” shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer to the excited old man: “A sharp eye for the white whale; a sharp lance for Moby Dick!”
  • referenced_byPequod's Seamen
    context
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    source
    Sourcetext_chunk
    source_text
    Aye, aye!” shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer to the excited old man: “A sharp eye for the white whale; a sharp lance for Moby Dick!”
  • extracted_fromSource
    extracted_at
    2026-03-02T00:02:08.418Z
    source
    Sourcetext_chunk
  • same_as01KJNXKZK1AJP2FGKJ6GGPDZN6
    confidence
    0.9
    detected_at
    2026-03-02T00:04:17.847Z
    detected_by
    kg-dedupe-resolver
    reasoning
    Both 'ahabs vengeance' (source) and 'monomania' (candidate 3) describe the same singular, all-consuming obsession of Captain Ahab for revenge against Moby Dick. The descriptions are highly overlapping, and in the context of the narrative, Ahab's vengeance is the direct manifestation of his monomania. The difference in entity type (concept vs. mental_condition) and label can be attributed to varying extraction contexts for the same real-world phenomenon.