Ariel
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Ariel is the adventurous, red-haired mermaid princess from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, known for her curiosity about the human world and iconic songs like “Part of Your World.”
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ariel canonical | 27 |
| Ariel (The Little Mermaid) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2643989 — 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: Ariel Context triple: [Disney Princess franchise, notableCharacter, Ariel]
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Ariel
Ariel is a posthumously published poetry collection by Sylvia Plath that is widely regarded as her most powerful and influential work.
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B.
Ariel
Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
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C.
Ariel
Ariel is one of Uranus's major icy moons, known for its relatively bright surface and complex system of canyons and fault valleys.
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D.
Calypso
Calypso is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for detaining the hero Odysseus on her island of Ogygia in Homer's Odyssey.
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E.
Calypso
Calypso is a small Trojan moon of Saturn that shares Tethys’s orbit, residing near one of its stable Lagrange points.
- 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: Ariel Target entity description: Ariel is the adventurous, red-haired mermaid princess from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, known for her curiosity about the human world and iconic songs like “Part of Your World.”
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A.
Ariel
Ariel is a posthumously published poetry collection by Sylvia Plath that is widely regarded as her most powerful and influential work.
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B.
Ariel
Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
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C.
Ariel
Ariel is one of Uranus's major icy moons, known for its relatively bright surface and complex system of canyons and fault valleys.
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D.
Calypso
Calypso is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for detaining the hero Odysseus on her island of Ogygia in Homer's Odyssey.
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E.
Calypso
Calypso is a small Trojan moon of Saturn that shares Tethys’s orbit, residing near one of its stable Lagrange points.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ariel Description of subject: Ariel is the adventurous, red-haired mermaid princess from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, known for her curiosity about the human world and iconic songs like “Part of Your World.”
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
subject surface form:
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
this entity surface form:
Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
subject surface form:
The Little Mermaid (2023 film)