Boomerang

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Boomerang has 72 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 19 references, with 10 live disagreements.

72 facts·61 predicates·19 sources·10 in dispute

Mostly:left(2), departs to(2), seems unknown to(2)

Inbound mentions (28)

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`dependsOn`Depends on(2)

Attempted Murderex:attempted-murder
Flesh Cut Injuryex:flesh-cut-injury

`requires`Requires(2)

Attempted Murderex:attempted-murder
Flesh Cut Injuryex:flesh-cut-injury

`asserts`Asserts(1)

Telegraph Newspaperex:telegraph-newspaper

`attemptedToThrow`Attempted to Throw(1)

Canaryex:canary

`attributedTo`Attributed to(1)

Big Sugar Case Rumourex:big-sugar-case-rumour

`causedBy`Caused by(1)

Boomerang Woundex:boomerang-wound

`commanded`Commanded(1)

Captain Skinnerex:captain-skinner

`consideredBlameOn`Considered Blame on(1)

Mr Justice Windeyerex:mr-justice-windeyer

`describes`Describes(1)

Telegraph Newspaperex:telegraph-newspaper

`doNotUse`Do Not Use(1)

Daintree Blacksex:daintree-blacks

`doNotUseBoomerang`Do Not Use Boomerang(1)

Aboriginal People Normanby 1875ex:aboriginal-people-normanby-1875

`escapedBeingHitBy`Escaped Being Hit by(1)

William Gibsonex:william-gibson

`hasPart`Has Part(1)

Behind the Scenes Contentex:behind-the-scenes-content

`hasWeapon`Has Weapon(1)

Attack August 1874ex:attack-august-1874

`involvesVessels`Involves Vessels(1)

Collision Boomerang Duckenfieldex:collision-boomerang-duckenfield

`involvesWeaponUse`Involves Weapon Use(1)

Nmp Event 38065ex:nmp-event-38065

`lacks`Lacks(1)

New Guineaex:new-guinea

`nominationsInclude`Nominations Include(1)

Handicap Hurdle Raceex:handicap-hurdle-race

`ofVessel`Of Vessel(1)

Captain Beerex:captain-beer

`practiced`Practiced(1)

Young Daintree Fellowsex:young-daintree-fellows

`precededByLetterOf`Preceded by Letter of(1)

Nmp Event 35478ex:nmp-event-35478

`reached`Reached(1)

Leveretex:leveret

`receivedGashInArm`Received Gash in Arm(1)

Boomerang Victimex:boomerang-victim

`referredToLetterOf`Referred to Letter of(1)

Squatterex:squatter

`towed`Towed(1)

Leveretex:leveret

`usesWeapon`Uses Weapon(1)

Logan River Aboriginal Peopleex:logan-river-aboriginal-people

Other facts (71)

The long tail: predicates that appear too rarely to warrant their own section. Filter or scroll to find a specific one. Each row links to its source.

71 facts

Predicate	Value	Ref
Left	Newcastle	[1]
Left	Thursday Island	[4]
Departs to	Brisbane	[3]
Departs to	Noumea	[5]
Seems Unknown to	Aboriginal People	[13]
Seems Unknown to	Aboriginal People Normanby 1875	[14]
Rdf:type	Weapon	[18]
Rdf:type	Content Format	[19]
Used in	Attack August 1874	[18]
Used in	Behind the Scenes Content	[19]
Weapon Type	projectile	[18]
Weapon Type	traditional Aboriginal weapon	[18]
Capability	cutting	[18]
Capability	inflicting wound	[18]
Cultural Origin	Aboriginal	[18]
Cultural Origin	Aboriginal Australian	[18]
Injury Capability	cutting flesh	[18]
Injury Capability	wounding	[18]
Capable of	cutting flesh	[18]
Capable of	causing wounds	[18]
Had Propeller Stoppage	sudden stoppage of the propeller	[1]
Ship Type	steamer	[1]
Action Taken	put sail on and squared away for Broken Bay	[1]
Anchored on Date Time	1891-04-17 13:00	[1]
Safely Anchored at	Pittwater	[1]
Incident Date Time	1891-04-17 06:00	[1]
Impossible to	clear the propeller	[1]
Had Incident Near	Long Reef at 6 o'clock	[1]
Result of Incident	vessel disabled	[1]
Left on Date	1891-04-16	[1]
Carried	cargo only for Sydney	[1]
Cause of Incident	rope washed off deck entangled round propeller	[1]
Returned to Moorings	Garden Reach	[1]
Is Hms	Hms	[1]
Performed Manoeuvres	The Bay	[1]
Absent in	New Guinea	[2]
Departs at	8 p.m.	[3]
Departs on	Tuesday	[3]
For	Brisbane	[4]
Causes Trouble for Narrator	true	[6]
Thrown Into Dancers	Crowd	[7]
Causes Trouble for Owner	true	[8]
Used to Catch Fish	true	[8]
Thrown by	Blacks	[9]
Passed Close to	Soldier Head	[9]
Thrown Just As Victim Leaned	null	[10]
Passed Harmlessly Over	Peter Armstrong	[10]
Had Crew Prevented From Landing	null	[11]
Wrote Letter Concerning	Blacks and Native Police North	[12]
Cut Saddle Like Knife	Vincent Dowling	[15]
Went Through Rim of Hat of	William Gibson	[16]
Used As	Murder Weapon	[17]
Used in Event	Attack August 1874	[18]
Caused Injury	flesh cut from arm	[18]
Weapon Name	boomerang	[18]
Material	wood implied	[18]
Accuracy	accurate enough to wound	[18]
Associated With	Aboriginal People	[18]
Injury Mechanism	cutting and flesh removal	[18]
Material Composition	wood	[18]
Material Type	traditional Aboriginal weapon	[18]
Weapon Mechanism	thrown returning weapon	[18]
Technological Context	traditional	[18]
Purpose of	Wounding	[18]
Used for	Wounding	[18]
Intended for	Wounding	[18]
Name Variant	boomerang	[18]
Cultural Artifact	true	[18]
Cultural Context	traditional Aboriginal technology	[18]
Cultural Meaning	traditional weapon	[18]
Described by	Telegraph Newspaper	[18]

Timeline axis is valid_time — when each source says the fact was true in the world, not when Dontopedia learned about it. Retracted rows are kept for provenance; coloured stripes indicate the context kind.

70 undated

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hadPropellerStoppagetrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

sudden stoppage of the propeller

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shipTypetrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

steamer

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actionTakentrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

put sail on and squared away for Broken Bay

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anchoredOnDateTimetrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

1891-04-17 13:00

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safelyAnchoredAttrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

ex:pittwater

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incidentDateTimetrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

1891-04-17 06:00

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impossibleTotrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

clear the propeller

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hadIncidentNeartrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

Long Reef at 6 o'clock

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resultOfIncidenttrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

vessel disabled

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leftOnDatetrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

1891-04-16

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carriedtrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

cargo only for Sydney

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lefttrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

ex:newcastle

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causeOfIncidenttrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

rope washed off deck entangled round propeller

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returnedToMooringstrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

ex:garden-reach

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isHmstrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

ex:hms

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performedManoeuvrestrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

ex:the-bay

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absentIntrove-cooktown/prostitution

ex:new-guinea

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departsAttrove-cooktown/reynolds

8 p.m.

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departsOntrove-cooktown/reynolds

Tuesday

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departsTotrove-cooktown/reynolds

ex:brisbane

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forbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/3561206_Monday-12-June-1893-shipping-arrivals

ex:brisbane

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leftbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/3561206_Monday-12-June-1893-shipping-arrivals

ex:thursday-island

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departsTorosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-reynolds-bros-carriers-teamsters-173745484

ex:noumea

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causesTroubleForNarratorrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archives-2026-05-05-2026-05-06-batch-3256d5172dee

true

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thrownIntoDancersrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archives-2026-05-05-2026-05-06-batch-44a50102b18c

ex:crowd

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causesTroubleForOwnerrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-arch-835f982dd28c

true

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usedToCatchFishrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-arch-835f982dd28c

true

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thrownByrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0306-eid-18095

ex:blacks

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passedCloseTorosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0306-eid-18095

ex:soldier-head

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thrownJustAsVictimLeanedrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0377-eid-18676

null

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passedHarmlesslyOverrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0377-eid-18676

ex:peter-armstrong

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hadCrewPreventedFromLandingrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0917-eid-23056

null

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wroteLetterConcerningrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1136-eid-35478

ex:blacks-and-native-police-north

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seemsUnknownTorosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1438-eid-46151

ex:aboriginal-people

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seemsUnknownTorosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1631-eid-50755

ex:aboriginal-people-normanby-1875

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cutSaddleLikeKniferosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2639-eid-69707

ex:vincent-dowling

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wentThroughRimOfHatOfrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2489-eid-68014

ex:william-gibson

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usedAsblucher-uhr/trove--trove-cooktown-all--noble-tracker--saturday 23 february 1889--84117694--roundabout

ex:murder-weapon

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typefrontier-massacres/10617

ex:Weapon

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labelfrontier-massacres/10617

Boomerang

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usedInEventfrontier-massacres/10617

ex:attack-august-1874

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causedInjuryfrontier-massacres/10617

flesh cut from arm

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weaponNamefrontier-massacres/10617

boomerang

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usedInfrontier-massacres/10617

ex:attack-august-1874

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weaponTypefrontier-massacres/10617

projectile

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weaponTypefrontier-massacres/10617

traditional Aboriginal weapon

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materialfrontier-massacres/10617

wood implied

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capabilityfrontier-massacres/10617

cutting

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capabilityfrontier-massacres/10617

inflicting wound

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accuracyfrontier-massacres/10617

accurate enough to wound

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culturalOriginfrontier-massacres/10617

Aboriginal

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associatedWithfrontier-massacres/10617

ex:aboriginal-people

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injuryMechanismfrontier-massacres/10617

cutting and flesh removal

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materialCompositionfrontier-massacres/10617

wood

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materialTypefrontier-massacres/10617

traditional Aboriginal weapon

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weaponMechanismfrontier-massacres/10617

thrown returning weapon

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injuryCapabilityfrontier-massacres/10617

cutting flesh

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injuryCapabilityfrontier-massacres/10617

wounding

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technologicalContextfrontier-massacres/10617

traditional

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capableOffrontier-massacres/10617

cutting flesh

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capableOffrontier-massacres/10617

causing wounds

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purposeOffrontier-massacres/10617

ex:wounding

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usedForfrontier-massacres/10617

ex:wounding

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intendedForfrontier-massacres/10617

ex:wounding

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nameVariantfrontier-massacres/10617

boomerang

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culturalArtifactfrontier-massacres/10617

true

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culturalOriginfrontier-massacres/10617

Aboriginal Australian

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culturalContextfrontier-massacres/10617

traditional Aboriginal technology

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culturalMeaningfrontier-massacres/10617

traditional weapon

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describedByfrontier-massacres/10617

ex:telegraph-newspaper

2023

2023-05-25

typelme/92e07204-1b5e-49d9-9bdc-7d391e9d9a62

ex:ContentFormat

2023-05-25

usedInlme/92e07204-1b5e-49d9-9bdc-7d391e9d9a62

ex:behind-the-scenes-content

References (19)

19 references

[1]Beche De Mer16 facts
ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
[2]Prostitution1 fact
ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/prostitution
[3]Reynolds3 facts
ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/reynolds
[4]3561206 Monday 12 June 1893 Shipping Arrivals2 facts
ctx:genes/brackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/3561206_Monday-12-June-1893-shipping-arrivals
[5]Trove Reynolds Bros Carriers Teamsters 1737454841 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-reynolds-bros-carriers-teamsters-173745484
[6]Downloaded Archives 2026 05 05 2026 05 06 Batch 3256d5172dee1 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archives-2026-05-05-2026-05-06-batch-3256d5172dee
[7]Downloaded Archives 2026 05 05 2026 05 06 Batch 44a50102b18c1 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archives-2026-05-05-2026-05-06-batch-44a50102b18c
[8]Downloaded Arch 835f982dd28c2 facts
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-arch-835f982dd28c
[9]Row 0306 Eid 180952 facts
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0306-eid-18095
[10]Row 0377 Eid 186762 facts
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0377-eid-18676
[11]Row 0917 Eid 230561 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0917-eid-23056
[12]Row 1136 Eid 354781 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1136-eid-35478
[13]Row 1438 Eid 461511 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1438-eid-46151
[14]Row 1631 Eid 507551 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1631-eid-50755
[15]Row 2639 Eid 697071 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2639-eid-69707
[16]Row 2489 Eid 680141 fact
ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2489-eid-68014
[17]Trove Trove Cooktown All Noble Tracker Saturday 23 February 1889 84117694 Roundabout1 fact
ctx:research/blucher-uhr/trove--trove-cooktown-all--noble-tracker--saturday 23 february 1889--84117694--roundabout
[18]1061732 facts
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Inbound mentions (28)

dependsOnDepends on(2)

requiresRequires(2)

assertsAsserts(1)

attemptedToThrowAttempted to Throw(1)

attributedToAttributed to(1)

causedByCaused by(1)

commandedCommanded(1)

consideredBlameOnConsidered Blame on(1)

describesDescribes(1)

doNotUseDo Not Use(1)

doNotUseBoomerangDo Not Use Boomerang(1)

escapedBeingHitByEscaped Being Hit by(1)

hasPartHas Part(1)

hasWeaponHas Weapon(1)

involvesVesselsInvolves Vessels(1)

involvesWeaponUseInvolves Weapon Use(1)

lacksLacks(1)

nominationsIncludeNominations Include(1)

ofVesselOf Vessel(1)

practicedPracticed(1)

precededByLetterOfPreceded by Letter of(1)

reachedReached(1)

receivedGashInArmReceived Gash in Arm(1)

referredToLetterOfReferred to Letter of(1)

towedTowed(1)

usesWeaponUses Weapon(1)

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`requires`Requires(2)

`asserts`Asserts(1)

`attemptedToThrow`Attempted to Throw(1)

`attributedTo`Attributed to(1)

`causedBy`Caused by(1)

`commanded`Commanded(1)

`consideredBlameOn`Considered Blame on(1)

`describes`Describes(1)

`doNotUse`Do Not Use(1)

`doNotUseBoomerang`Do Not Use Boomerang(1)

`escapedBeingHitBy`Escaped Being Hit by(1)

`hasPart`Has Part(1)

`hasWeapon`Has Weapon(1)

`involvesVessels`Involves Vessels(1)

`involvesWeaponUse`Involves Weapon Use(1)

`lacks`Lacks(1)

`nominationsInclude`Nominations Include(1)

`ofVessel`Of Vessel(1)

`practiced`Practiced(1)

`precededByLetterOf`Preceded by Letter of(1)

`reached`Reached(1)

`receivedGashInArm`Received Gash in Arm(1)

`referredToLetterOf`Referred to Letter of(1)

`towed`Towed(1)

`usesWeapon`Uses Weapon(1)