Teddy
E409217
Teddy is a character in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Jo’s Boys," part of the continuation of the March family saga begun in "Little Women."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teddy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4026038 — 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: Teddy Context triple: [Jo's Boys, featuresCharacter, Teddy]
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A.
Teddy
Teddy is Mr. Bean’s beloved brown teddy bear, a silent yet expressive companion that often serves as his confidant and playmate in the comedy series.
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B.
Teddy Bears
Teddy Bears is a popular nickname for Rangers F.C., one of Scotland’s most successful and widely supported football clubs.
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C.
Bobo
Bobo is a major Mande language spoken primarily in parts of West Africa, notably in Burkina Faso and Mali.
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D.
Carlton the Bear
Carlton the Bear is the official mascot of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, depicted as a friendly anthropomorphic polar bear who entertains fans at games and team events.
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E.
Mellie the Bear
Mellie the Bear is the mascot of Pauli Murray College, one of Yale University's residential colleges.
- 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: Teddy Target entity description: Teddy is a character in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Jo’s Boys," part of the continuation of the March family saga begun in "Little Women."
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A.
Teddy
Teddy is Mr. Bean’s beloved brown teddy bear, a silent yet expressive companion that often serves as his confidant and playmate in the comedy series.
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B.
Teddy Bears
Teddy Bears is a popular nickname for Rangers F.C., one of Scotland’s most successful and widely supported football clubs.
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C.
Bobo
Bobo is a major Mande language spoken primarily in parts of West Africa, notably in Burkina Faso and Mali.
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D.
Carlton the Bear
Carlton the Bear is the official mascot of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, depicted as a friendly anthropomorphic polar bear who entertains fans at games and team events.
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E.
Mellie the Bear
Mellie the Bear is the mascot of Pauli Murray College, one of Yale University's residential colleges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Jo's Boys
ⓘ
surface form:
Jo’s Boys
|
| appearsInSeries | Little Women series ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkSeries |
Little Women series
ⓘ
surface form:
Little Women and its sequels
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Louisa May Alcott ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDateOfWork | 1886 ⓘ |
| followsWork |
Little Men
ⓘ
Little Women ⓘ |
| genre |
children’s literature
ⓘ
coming-of-age fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorRole | Louisa May Alcott ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverseRelation |
Jo March
ⓘ
March family ⓘ characters from Little Men ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse | March family universe ⓘ |
| partOf | March family saga ⓘ |
| publicationContext |
Jo's Boys
ⓘ
surface form:
Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out
|
| setInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| setInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| workAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Teddy Description of subject: Teddy is a character in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Jo’s Boys," part of the continuation of the March family saga begun in "Little Women."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Laurie