Toby Wick
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Toby Wick is a central, mythic antagonist in Patrick Ness’s novel "And the Ocean Was Our Sky," embodying the feared, almost legendary human hunter pursued by the whale protagonists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Toby Wick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16846384 — 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: Toby Wick Context triple: [And the Ocean Was Our Sky, featuresCharacter, Toby Wick]
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Toby
Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Toby
Toby is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Tobias.
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Toby
Toby is a young, kind-hearted but ultimately traumatized boy who becomes a pivotal figure in the dark revenge tale of the 2007 musical horror film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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Toby
Toby is one of the central sailor protagonists in Herman Melville’s semi-autobiographical novel "Typee," known for his role in the narrative of escape and survival among a Polynesian tribe.
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Toby
Toby is a minor character in the film "Girl, Interrupted," serving as Susanna Kaysen’s ex-boyfriend and a reminder of the outside world beyond the psychiatric hospital.
- 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: Toby Wick Target entity description: Toby Wick is a central, mythic antagonist in Patrick Ness’s novel "And the Ocean Was Our Sky," embodying the feared, almost legendary human hunter pursued by the whale protagonists.
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A.
Toby
Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
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B.
Toby
Toby is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Tobias.
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C.
Toby
Toby is a young, kind-hearted but ultimately traumatized boy who becomes a pivotal figure in the dark revenge tale of the 2007 musical horror film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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D.
Toby
Toby is one of the central sailor protagonists in Herman Melville’s semi-autobiographical novel "Typee," known for his role in the narrative of escape and survival among a Polynesian tribe.
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E.
Toby
Toby is a minor character in the film "Girl, Interrupted," serving as Susanna Kaysen’s ex-boyfriend and a reminder of the outside world beyond the psychiatric hospital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.