Penny Baxter
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Penny Baxter is a central character in the classic American film "The Yearling," portrayed as the compassionate but practical father in a struggling post-Civil War Florida family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penny Baxter canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326201 — 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: Penny Baxter Context triple: [The Yearling (1946 film), mainCharacter, Penny Baxter]
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A.
Jane Baxter
Jane Baxter was a British actress known for her work in stage and film during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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C.
Frances Penney
Frances Penney was the wife of Canadian physician and humanitarian Norman Bethune, accompanying parts of his medical and political journey in the early 20th century.
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D.
Nell Burton
Nell Burton is the daughter of filmmaker Tim Burton and actress Helena Bonham Carter.
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E.
Nora Batty
Nora Batty is a famously stern, no-nonsense Yorkshire housewife known for her wrinkled stockings and constant scolding in the British sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine."
- 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: Penny Baxter Target entity description: Penny Baxter is a central character in the classic American film "The Yearling," portrayed as the compassionate but practical father in a struggling post-Civil War Florida family.
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A.
Jane Baxter
Jane Baxter was a British actress known for her work in stage and film during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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C.
Frances Penney
Frances Penney was the wife of Canadian physician and humanitarian Norman Bethune, accompanying parts of his medical and political journey in the early 20th century.
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D.
Nell Burton
Nell Burton is the daughter of filmmaker Tim Burton and actress Helena Bonham Carter.
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E.
Nora Batty
Nora Batty is a famously stern, no-nonsense Yorkshire housewife known for her wrinkled stockings and constant scolding in the British sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom | The Yearling (novel) ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Yearling (1946 film)
ⓘ
surface form:
The Yearling
|
| basedOnMedium | novel ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
practical ⓘ |
| child | Jody Baxter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| economicStatus | poor farmer ⓘ |
| familyRole | father ⓘ |
| fictionalEthnicity | white American ⓘ |
| fictionalReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| fictionalWorkGenre |
drama film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Clarence Brown ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralRole | moral guide to Jody Baxter ⓘ |
| narrativeSettingPlace | Florida ⓘ |
| narrativeSettingTime | post–American Civil War era ⓘ |
| novelAuthor | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gregory Peck ⓘ |
| primaryThemeAssociation |
coming-of-age
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ man versus nature ⓘ |
| spouse | Ora Baxter ⓘ |
| studioOfWork | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
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: Penny Baxter Description of subject: Penny Baxter is a central character in the classic American film "The Yearling," portrayed as the compassionate but practical father in a struggling post-Civil War Florida family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Yearling