Tattered Tom
E305978
Tattered Tom is a 19th-century juvenile novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor but determined newsboy striving for honesty and self-improvement amid urban hardship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tattered Tom canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2867534 — 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: Tattered Tom Context triple: [Horatio Alger Jr., notableWork, Tattered Tom]
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A.
TOM the Tiger
TOM the Tiger is the live Bengal tiger mascot that represents the University of Memphis Tigers athletic programs.
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B.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
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C.
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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D.
Old Tige
Old Tige was the nickname of William L. Cabell, a Confederate general who later became a prominent postwar civic leader and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
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E.
Plump Jack
Plump Jack is an opera by American composer Gordon Getty, based on the character Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare’s history plays.
- 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: Tattered Tom Target entity description: Tattered Tom is a 19th-century juvenile novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor but determined newsboy striving for honesty and self-improvement amid urban hardship.
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A.
TOM the Tiger
TOM the Tiger is the live Bengal tiger mascot that represents the University of Memphis Tigers athletic programs.
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B.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
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C.
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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D.
Old Tige
Old Tige was the nickname of William L. Cabell, a Confederate general who later became a prominent postwar civic leader and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
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E.
Plump Jack
Plump Jack is an opera by American composer Gordon Getty, based on the character Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare’s history plays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
juvenile novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author | Horatio Alger Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
didactic fiction ⓘ rags-to-riches narrative ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | juvenile readers ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | newsboy ⓘ |
| moralFocus | virtue rewarded ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
character development
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moral education ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Horatio Alger Jr. body of work ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait |
determined
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poor ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| setting | urban environment ⓘ |
| targetAgeGroup |
children
ⓘ
young adults ⓘ |
| theme |
honesty
ⓘ
poverty ⓘ self-improvement ⓘ social mobility ⓘ urban hardship ⓘ |
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: Tattered Tom Description of subject: Tattered Tom is a 19th-century juvenile novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor but determined newsboy striving for honesty and self-improvement amid urban hardship.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.