Farmer Bean
E377438
Farmer Bean is one of the cruel, vindictive farmers and main antagonists in Roald Dahl’s story “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” known for his relentless attempts to capture the clever fox.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Farmer Bean canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3673316 — 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 Bean Context triple: [Fantastic Mr. Fox, character, Farmer Bean]
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A.
Sprout and the Bean
"Sprout and the Bean" is a whimsical, harp-driven folk song by Joanna Newsom known for its intricate lyrics and distinctive vocal style.
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B.
The Farm
The Farm is a seminal painting by Spanish artist Joan Miró that marks his transition from detailed realism to a more symbolic, surreal style, depicting his family’s farmhouse in Catalonia.
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C.
The Farm
The Farm is a popular nickname for Stanford University, reflecting its origins on the former Palo Alto Stock Farm owned by the Stanford family.
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D.
Willie the Giant
Willie the Giant is a large, comical giant character from Disney animation, best known for his appearances in classic films like "Mickey and the Beanstalk."
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E.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
- 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 Bean Target entity description: Farmer Bean is one of the cruel, vindictive farmers and main antagonists in Roald Dahl’s story “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” known for his relentless attempts to capture the clever fox.
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A.
Sprout and the Bean
"Sprout and the Bean" is a whimsical, harp-driven folk song by Joanna Newsom known for its intricate lyrics and distinctive vocal style.
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B.
The Farm
The Farm is a seminal painting by Spanish artist Joan Miró that marks his transition from detailed realism to a more symbolic, surreal style, depicting his family’s farmhouse in Catalonia.
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C.
The Farm
The Farm is a popular nickname for Stanford University, reflecting its origins on the former Palo Alto Stock Farm owned by the Stanford family.
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D.
Willie the Giant
Willie the Giant is a large, comical giant character from Disney animation, best known for his appearances in classic films like "Mickey and the Beanstalk."
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E.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| ally |
Farmer Boggis
ⓘ
Farmer Bunce ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Fantastic Mr. Fox ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
Fantastic Mr. Fox
ⓘ
surface form:
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009 film)
|
| associatedWith | Boggis, Bunce and Bean song in some adaptations ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cruel
ⓘ
relentless ⓘ vindictive ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Roald Dahl ⓘ |
| enemy | Mr. Fox ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| genre | children's literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Bean ⓘ |
| isPartOf | trio of farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Roald Dahl universe ⓘ |
| name | Bean ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | obstacle to Mr. Fox and his family ⓘ |
| notableAction |
participates in digging out Mr. Fox's home
ⓘ
tries to capture Mr. Fox ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | cruel farmer in the 2009 film adaptation ⓘ |
| roleInWork | main antagonist ⓘ |
| setting | rural English countryside ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| workType | children's novel character ⓘ |
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 Bean Description of subject: Farmer Bean is one of the cruel, vindictive farmers and main antagonists in Roald Dahl’s story “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” known for his relentless attempts to capture the clever fox.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.