whaling
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- _kg_layer
- 0
- associated_activity
- exploration
- description
- The business of hunting whales, often regarded as unpoetical and disreputable by landsmen, but fiercely defended by the narrator as a noble and historically significant profession.
- duration_of_voyage
- three-years'
- economic_impact
- adds to national wealth
- historical_significance
- pioneer in exploration, economic driver
- perception_by_landsmen
- unpoetical and disreputable
- requirements
- extensive housekeeping
- risks
- accidents, destruction of supplies
Relationships
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:07.165Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- contributed_to_discovery_ofNorth-West Passage
- description
- Whalemen, by exploring whale haunts, indirectly contributed to clues for the North-West Passage.
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- laying open the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.”
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:12.136Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- is pioneer inExploring Expeditions
- description
- The whaling industry, particularly whale-ships, acted as pioneers in exploring remote and unknown parts of the earth, preceding formal exploring expeditions.
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth.
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:19.686Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- same_as01KJNXMD0E2BN0HHNPA2WNZBPF
- confidence
- 0.95
- detected_at
- 2026-03-02T00:17:22.178Z
- detected_by
- kg-dedupe-resolver
- reasoning
- Both entities are labeled 'whaling' and describe the same concept: the activity/business of hunting whales. The source is typed 'industry' and the candidate 'activity', which are closely related and represent different facets of the same real-world phenomenon. The descriptions and properties are highly consistent, referring to the same practice of whale hunting.