Snowman
E110034
Snowman is the post-apocalyptic survivor and narrator of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake," through whose perspective the story’s ruined world and its origins are revealed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Snowman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T928523 — 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: Snowman Context triple: [Oryx and Crake, mainCharacter, Snowman]
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A.
Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow is a prominent Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning back-to-back Dubai World Cups in 2018 and 2019.
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B.
Snowlets
Snowlets are the four snowy owl mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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C.
Edelweiss
"Edelweiss" is a gentle, nostalgic song from the musical *The Sound of Music*, widely recognized as one of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s most beloved compositions.
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D.
Puckman
Puckman is the ice hockey–themed mascot representing Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s athletic teams.
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E.
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform known for its scalable, high-performance analytics and separation of storage and compute.
- 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: Snowman Target entity description: Snowman is the post-apocalyptic survivor and narrator of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake," through whose perspective the story’s ruined world and its origins are revealed.
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A.
Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow is a prominent Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning back-to-back Dubai World Cups in 2018 and 2019.
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B.
Snowlets
Snowlets are the four snowy owl mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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C.
Edelweiss
"Edelweiss" is a gentle, nostalgic song from the musical *The Sound of Music*, widely recognized as one of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s most beloved compositions.
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D.
Puckman
Puckman is the ice hockey–themed mascot representing Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s athletic teams.
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E.
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform known for its scalable, high-performance analytics and separation of storage and compute.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Oryx and Crake ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Crake
ⓘ
Crakers ⓘ Oryx ⓘ |
| childhoodFriend | Crake ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction |
United States and Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
United States or Canada (unspecified North America)
|
| createdBy | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| describedAs | post-apocalyptic survivor ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
ⓘ
post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Oryx ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
narrator
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | alternates between past and present ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFeature | lives among bioengineered humans ⓘ |
| occupationBeforeCollapse | advertising worker ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
MaddAddam
ⓘ
surface form:
MaddAddam trilogy
|
| perspectiveProvides |
explanation of catastrophe origins
ⓘ
view of ruined world ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork |
McClelland and Stewart
ⓘ
Nan A. Talese ⓘ
surface form:
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
|
| realName | Jimmy ⓘ |
| setting | near-future Earth ⓘ |
| survivalContext | global pandemic aftermath ⓘ |
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: Snowman Description of subject: Snowman is the post-apocalyptic survivor and narrator of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake," through whose perspective the story’s ruined world and its origins are revealed.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.