Max
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Max is the mischievous young boy in a wolf costume who imagines traveling to an island of monsters in the classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507674 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Max Context triple: [Where the Wild Things Are, featuresCharacter, Max]
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Max
Max is a masculine given name commonly used in German- and English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Maximilian or Maxwell.
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Max
Max is a central character in Harold Pinter’s play "The Homecoming," known as the domineering, abrasive patriarch whose volatile behavior drives much of the drama’s tension.
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Max
Max is a subscription-based streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery that offers a wide range of films, series, and original programming.
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Max
Max is the ruthless and enigmatic CIA operative who serves as the primary villain in the 2010 action film "The Losers."
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Max
Max is a film for which acclaimed Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai served as director of photography.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Max Target entity description: Max is the mischievous young boy in a wolf costume who imagines traveling to an island of monsters in the classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are."
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Max
Max is a hyperactive, psychotic "rabbit-thing" and one half of the freelance police duo from the comedic adventure game series Sam & Max.
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Max
Max is a central character in Harold Pinter’s play "The Homecoming," known as the domineering, abrasive patriarch whose volatile behavior drives much of the drama’s tension.
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Max
Max is a television drama series featuring Luke Kleintank in a prominent role.
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Max
Max is the ruthless and enigmatic CIA operative who serves as the primary villain in the 2010 action film "The Losers."
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Max
Max is the central protagonist of the French romantic drama film "L'Appartement," around whom the story’s intricate web of love, obsession, and mistaken identity revolves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children’s book character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Where the Wild Things Are NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation | Where the Wild Things Are (2009 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
children’s picture book
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feature film adaptation ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | his mother ⓘ |
| costumeType | wolf suit ⓘ |
| createdBy | Maurice Sendak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Maurice Sendak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotionalStateAtEnd | comforted ⓘ |
| emotionalStateAtStart | angry ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Where the Wild Things Are NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRelation | mother ⓘ |
| hasImaginaryWorld | land of the Wild Things ⓘ |
| illustratedBy | Maurice Sendak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| interactsWith | monsters ⓘ |
| isSentTo | his bedroom ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginWork | English ⓘ |
| leads | wild rumpus ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | fantasy ⓘ |
| meets | the Wild Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modeOfTravel | imaginary voyage ⓘ |
| name | Max NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeArc | from misbehavior to emotional growth ⓘ |
| nationalityInText | American (implied by setting) ⓘ |
| notableScene | wild rumpus sequence ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
imaginative
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mischievous ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Max Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receives | supper waiting for him at home ⓘ |
| returnsTo | home ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfImagination | island of monsters ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| targetAudienceOfWork | children ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
anger and reconciliation
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childhood imagination ⓘ |
| titleGivenByWildThings | King of all Wild Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| travelsTo | island of the Wild Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visualCharacteristic | wears a crown as king among the Wild Things ⓘ |
| wears | wolf costume ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Max Description of subject: Max is the mischievous young boy in a wolf costume who imagines traveling to an island of monsters in the classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.