"Clown"
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"Clown" is a wordless children's picture book by Quentin Blake that follows a discarded toy clown who comes to life and searches for a new home.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Clown" canonical | 2 |
| Clown (Channel 4 animated film) | 1 |
| Clown (toy) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3880839 — 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: "Clown" Context triple: [Quentin Blake, notableWork, "Clown"]
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A.
Buttons the Clown
Buttons the Clown is a central character in the 1952 circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth," portrayed as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup and hides a troubled past.
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B.
The Day of the Clown
"The Day of the Clown" is an episode of the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring a sinister clown-linked alien threat and introducing the character Rani Chandra as a new member of Sarah Jane's team.
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C.
Class Clown
Class Clown is a landmark 1972 comedy album by George Carlin that helped define his countercultural, observational style and cemented his status as a leading stand-up comedian.
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D.
Smilin'
"Smilin'" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Gideon, known for its upbeat tone and emotive, melodic pop style.
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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: "Clown" Target entity description: "Clown" is a wordless children's picture book by Quentin Blake that follows a discarded toy clown who comes to life and searches for a new home.
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A.
Buttons the Clown
Buttons the Clown is a central character in the 1952 circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth," portrayed as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup and hides a troubled past.
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B.
The Day of the Clown
"The Day of the Clown" is an episode of the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring a sinister clown-linked alien threat and introducing the character Rani Chandra as a new member of Sarah Jane's team.
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C.
Class Clown
Class Clown is a landmark 1972 comedy album by George Carlin that helped define his countercultural, observational style and cemented his status as a leading stand-up comedian.
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D.
Smilin'
"Smilin'" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Gideon, known for its upbeat tone and emotive, melodic pop style.
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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 (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's picture book
ⓘ
wordless picture book ⓘ |
| adaptationBroadcaster | Channel 4 ⓘ |
| adaptationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| adaptationType | television special ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | animated short film ⓘ |
| author |
Sir Quentin Blake
ⓘ
surface form:
Quentin Blake
|
| awardFor | integrated text and illustration ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator |
Sir Quentin Blake
ⓘ
surface form:
Quentin Blake
|
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
picture book ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
"Clown"
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Clown (Channel 4 animated film)
|
| hasAward | Kurt Maschler Award ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
"Clown"
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Clown (toy)
girl's family ⓘ little girl ⓘ |
| hasNoText | true ⓘ |
| illustrationStyle | expressive line drawings ⓘ |
| illustrator |
Sir Quentin Blake
ⓘ
surface form:
Quentin Blake
|
| intendedUse |
independent picture exploration
ⓘ
shared reading ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | toy clown ⓘ |
| medium | watercolor illustrations ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | wordless ⓘ |
| notableFor | telling its story entirely through pictures without words ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A discarded toy clown comes to life and searches for a new home. ⓘ |
| protagonistType | anthropomorphic toy ⓘ |
| publicationType | hardcover book ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| readingMode | visual narrative ⓘ |
| setting | urban environment ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
discarded toys
ⓘ
family life ⓘ social inequality ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| theme |
belonging
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friendship ⓘ kindness ⓘ poverty ⓘ resilience ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | contemporary era ⓘ |
| toldThrough | sequential illustrations ⓘ |
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: "Clown" Description of subject: "Clown" is a wordless children's picture book by Quentin Blake that follows a discarded toy clown who comes to life and searches for a new home.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Quentin Blake
subject surface form:
Quentin Saxby Blake
subject surface form:
Clown
this entity surface form:
Clown (toy)
subject surface form:
Clown
this entity surface form:
Clown (Channel 4 animated film)