Travis Coates
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Travis Coates is the young frontier boy in Fred Gipson’s novel "Old Yeller," whose coming-of-age is shaped by his deep bond with a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Travis Coates canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3022910 — 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: Travis Coates Context triple: [Old Yeller, mainCharacter, Travis Coates]
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A.
Travis Banton
Travis Banton was a prominent American Hollywood costume designer best known for his glamorous, influential work at Paramount Pictures during the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
Travis Gibb
Travis Gibb is one of the sons of Barry Gibb, the famed singer-songwriter and member of the Bee Gees.
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C.
Travis Lee
Travis Lee is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played primarily for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Phillies in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Travis Beacham
Travis Beacham is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Brant Daugherty
Brant Daugherty is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "Pretty Little Liars" and films including the "Fifty Shades" franchise.
- 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: Travis Coates Target entity description: Travis Coates is the young frontier boy in Fred Gipson’s novel "Old Yeller," whose coming-of-age is shaped by his deep bond with a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas.
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A.
Travis Banton
Travis Banton was a prominent American Hollywood costume designer best known for his glamorous, influential work at Paramount Pictures during the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
Travis Gibb
Travis Gibb is one of the sons of Barry Gibb, the famed singer-songwriter and member of the Bee Gees.
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C.
Travis Lee
Travis Lee is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played primarily for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Phillies in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Travis Beacham
Travis Beacham is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Brant Daugherty
Brant Daugherty is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "Pretty Little Liars" and films including the "Fifty Shades" franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| age | adolescent ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Old Yeller
ⓘ
Old Yeller (1956 novel) ⓘ |
| associatedWork | Savage Sam ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Fred Gipson ⓘ |
| familyMember |
Arliss Coates
ⓘ
Mr. Coates ⓘ Mrs. Coates ⓘ |
| familyName | Coates ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Travis ⓘ |
| hasPet | Old Yeller ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
Western fiction
ⓘ
children's literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | coming-of-age hero ⓘ |
| occupation | frontier boy ⓘ |
| relationship | owner of Old Yeller ⓘ |
| residence | Texas ⓘ |
| role | narrator ⓘ |
| setting | Texas frontier ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
family
ⓘ
loss ⓘ maturity ⓘ responsibility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | post-Civil War era ⓘ |
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: Travis Coates Description of subject: Travis Coates is the young frontier boy in Fred Gipson’s novel "Old Yeller," whose coming-of-age is shaped by his deep bond with a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Katie Coates