Farmer Boggis
E377437
Farmer Boggis is one of the three cruel, gluttonous farmers who serve as antagonists to the clever title character in Roald Dahl's children's book "Fantastic Mr. Fox."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Farmer Boggis canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3673314 — 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: Farmer Boggis Context triple: [Fantastic Mr. Fox, character, Farmer Boggis]
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A.
Hugh the Drover
Hugh the Drover is an early 20th-century English opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams that blends folk-song elements with a romantic tale set in rural England.
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B.
Fosby
Fosby is a settlement that serves as the main local hub and seat of administration for the surrounding Aremark area in Norway.
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C.
Goosefat Bill
Goosefat Bill is a roguish, sharp-tongued ally of Arthur and skilled fighter in the fantasy action film "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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D.
Frog Millhouse
Frog Millhouse is a supporting character in the 1938 Western film "Under Western Stars," which starred Roy Rogers.
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E.
Bustopher Jones
Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
- 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: Farmer Boggis Target entity description: Farmer Boggis is one of the three cruel, gluttonous farmers who serve as antagonists to the clever title character in Roald Dahl's children's book "Fantastic Mr. Fox."
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A.
Hugh the Drover
Hugh the Drover is an early 20th-century English opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams that blends folk-song elements with a romantic tale set in rural England.
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B.
Fosby
Fosby is a settlement that serves as the main local hub and seat of administration for the surrounding Aremark area in Norway.
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C.
Goosefat Bill
Goosefat Bill is a roguish, sharp-tongued ally of Arthur and skilled fighter in the fantasy action film "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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D.
Frog Millhouse
Frog Millhouse is a supporting character in the 1938 Western film "Under Western Stars," which starred Roy Rogers.
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E.
Bustopher Jones
Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Fantastic Mr. Fox
ⓘ
surface form:
1970 book Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantastic Mr. Fox ⓘ Fantastic Mr. Fox ⓘ
surface form:
children's novel Fantastic Mr. Fox
|
| appearsInAdaptation |
Fantastic Mr. Fox
ⓘ
surface form:
2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox
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| associatedWith | Boggis, Bunce and Bean ⓘ |
| characteristic |
cruel
ⓘ
gluttonous ⓘ greedy ⓘ vindictive ⓘ |
| colleague |
Farmer Bean
ⓘ
Farmer Bunce ⓘ |
| creator | Roald Dahl ⓘ |
| diet | chickens ⓘ |
| enemy | Mr. Fox ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | children's literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Roald Dahl universe ⓘ |
| memberOf | group of three farmers ⓘ |
| motivation |
anger at losing poultry to Mr. Fox
ⓘ
desire for revenge on Mr. Fox ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| owns | chicken farm ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
dirty
ⓘ
obese ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
helps besiege Mr. Fox's hole
ⓘ
hunts Mr. Fox ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | rural England ⓘ |
| specializesIn | raising chickens ⓘ |
| targetOf | Mr. Fox's raids ⓘ |
| workLocation | countryside near Mr. Fox's home ⓘ |
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: Farmer Boggis Description of subject: Farmer Boggis is one of the three cruel, gluttonous farmers who serve as antagonists to the clever title character in Roald Dahl's children's book "Fantastic Mr. Fox."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.