Jack the duckling
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Jack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack the duckling canonical | 1 |
| Kack the duckling | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1441392 — 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: Jack the duckling Context triple: [Make Way for Ducklings sculpture, depicts, Jack the duckling]
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A.
Plump Jack
Plump Jack is an opera by American composer Gordon Getty, based on the character Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare’s history plays.
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B.
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a classic children's picture book featuring an anthropomorphic duck's misadventures, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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C.
Little Bird
Little Bird is a British film production company best known for its involvement in successful romantic comedies like "Bridget Jones’s Diary."
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D.
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb was an early experimental American steam locomotive built in 1830 that demonstrated the viability of steam power for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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E.
The Egg
The Egg is an iconic, egg-shaped performing arts venue in Albany, New York, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and role as a cultural center.
- 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: Jack the duckling Target entity description: Jack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
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A.
Plump Jack
Plump Jack is an opera by American composer Gordon Getty, based on the character Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare’s history plays.
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B.
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a classic children's picture book featuring an anthropomorphic duck's misadventures, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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C.
Little Bird
Little Bird is a British film production company best known for its involvement in successful romantic comedies like "Bridget Jones’s Diary."
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D.
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb was an early experimental American steam locomotive built in 1830 that demonstrated the viability of steam power for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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E.
The Egg
The Egg is an iconic, egg-shaped performing arts venue in Albany, New York, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and role as a cultural center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional duck character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ sculpture subject ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Make Way for Ducklings ⓘ |
| associatedWithLandmark |
Make Way for Ducklings sculpture
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Public Garden Make Way for Ducklings statues
|
| basedOnWork | Make Way for Ducklings ⓘ |
| characterIn | children's picture book ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Robert McCloskey ⓘ |
| featuredInSculpture | Make Way for Ducklings sculpture ⓘ |
| fictionalCity | Boston ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Make Way for Ducklings ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | children's literature ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Mr. Mallard
ⓘ
Mrs. Mallard ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of eight named ducklings in Make Way for Ducklings
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being represented as a bronze duckling in a public sculpture ⓘ |
| partOf |
Make Way for Ducklings duck family
ⓘ
surface form:
the duckling family in Make Way for Ducklings
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| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1941 ⓘ |
| sculptureLocation | Boston Public Garden ⓘ |
| sculptureMaterial | bronze ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack
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Kack the duckling ⓘ Lack the duckling ⓘ Mack the duckling ⓘ Nack the duckling ⓘ Ouack the duckling ⓘ Pack the duckling ⓘ Quack the duckling ⓘ |
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: Jack the duckling Description of subject: Jack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kack the duckling