the harpooneer

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• carriesHarpooneer's Large Bag

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  The harpooneer brought a large bag into the room and began to untie its knotted cords.

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  began working away at the knotted cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room.

• holdsNew Zealand Head

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  The stranger entered the room holding a New Zealand head in one hand.

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  Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room

• possessesHarpooneer's Tomahawk

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  The harpooneer pulled a tomahawk from his bag.

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  he commenced fumbling in it, and presently pulled out a sort of tomahawk

• possessesSeal-skin Wallet

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  The harpooneer pulled a seal-skin wallet from his bag.

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  and a seal-skin wallet with the hair on.

• places_onOld Chest

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  The harpooneer placed his tomahawk and seal-skin wallet on the old chest in the room.

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  Placing these on the old chest in the middle of the room

• stores_inHarpooneer's Large Bag

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  After retrieving other items, the harpooneer crammed the New Zealand head back into his bag.

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  he then took the New Zealand head—a ghastly thing enough—and crammed it down into the bag.

• wearsHarpooneer's Beaver Hat

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  The harpooneer removed his new beaver hat.

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  He now took off his hat—a new beaver hat

• is_compared_toWhaleman

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  The narrator deduces the harpooneer's tattooed appearance is similar to a story of a whaleman who was tattooed by cannibals.

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  I remembered a story of a white man—a whaleman too—who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.

• voyaged_inSouth Seas

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  The narrator speculates that the harpooneer's tattoos and complexion are a result of voyages in the South Seas.

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  this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.

• landed_inChristian Country

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  The narrator notes that the 'savage' harpooneer has landed in this Christian country.

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  and so landed in this Christian country.

• wearsHarpooneer's Grego

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  The harpooneer hung his heavy grego on a chair.

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  Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair

• possessesWooden Idol

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  The harpooneer produced a curious, deformed image from his grego pocket.

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  he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back

• places_inFire-place

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  The harpooneer set up his hunch-backed image in the empty fire-place.

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  sets up this little hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the andirons.

• uses_in_ritualShavings

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  The harpooneer took shavings from his pocket and placed them before the idol for the ritual.

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  First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol

• uses_in_ritualShip Biscuit

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  The harpooneer placed a bit of ship biscuit on the shavings as part of his ritual offering.

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  then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.

• uses_to_igniteLamp

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  The harpooneer applied the flame from the lamp to kindle the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.

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  applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.

• offers_toWooden Idol

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  After scorching his fingers, the harpooneer offered the heated biscuit to the little negro idol.

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  he made a polite offer of it to the little negro.

• performsPagan Psalmody

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  The harpooneer made guttural noises, appearing to pray or sing a pagan psalmody during the ritual.

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  seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other

• smokes_fromHarpooneer's Tomahawk

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  The harpooneer puffed great clouds of tobacco smoke from the handle of his tomahawk.

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  holding it to the light, with his mouth at the handle, he puffed out great clouds of tobacco smoke.

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• same_as01KJNXKXNA6Q7NV244AJQKVXKZ

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  2026-03-02T00:10:46.631Z

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  kg-dedupe-resolver

  reasoning

  The candidate entity 'queequeg' (ID: 01KJNXKXNA6Q7NV244AJQKVXKZ) is unequivocally the same real-world person as the source entity 'the harpooneer' (ID: 01KJNXMB4FDHTFDJY8BMTE7D6V). Both are described as a 'savage harpooneer' with 'tattooed' features, originating from an 'island' (South Seas/Rokovoko), possessing a 'tomahawk' and an 'embalmed head' (New Zealand Head), wearing a 'beaver hat', and performing 'pagan rituals' (worships Yojo). The source's description as a 'head-peddler' and 'mysterious and exotic stranger' who 'shares a bed with the narrator' perfectly aligns with Queequeg's character and actions, including being the 'companion of Ishmael'.