industry

whaling

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Properties

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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
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    2026-03-02T00:08:07.165Z
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  • contributed_to_discovery_ofNorth-West Passage
    description
    Whalemen, by exploring whale haunts, indirectly contributed to clues for the North-West Passage.
    source
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    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
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  • 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
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    source_text
    the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth.
  • extracted_fromSource
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    2026-03-02T00:08:19.686Z
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  • 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.