the hen that lays golden eggs
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The hen that lays golden eggs is a magical bird in the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" that produces valuable golden eggs, symbolizing sudden wealth and greed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the hen that lays golden eggs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4086351 — 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: the hen that lays golden eggs Context triple: [Jack and the Beanstalk, hasCharacter, the hen that lays golden eggs]
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A.
The Egg
The Egg is an iconic, egg-shaped performing arts venue in Albany, New York, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and role as a cultural center.
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B.
The Egg
The Egg is a modern, student-centered dining and learning facility at the Culinary Institute of America’s Hyde Park campus that showcases culinary education in a real-world restaurant environment.
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C.
The Wise Little Hen
The Wise Little Hen is a 1934 Walt Disney animated short film best known for introducing the character Donald Duck.
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D.
Золотой петушок
«Золотой петушок» — это последняя опера Николая Римского-Корсакова, сатирическая музыкальная сказка по одноимённой поэме Пушкина о самодурстве и гибели самодержавного правителя.
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E.
Goose Eggs
"Goose Eggs" is a song by the band Divers, known for its emotionally charged indie rock sound and vivid storytelling.
- 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: the hen that lays golden eggs Target entity description: The hen that lays golden eggs is a magical bird in the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" that produces valuable golden eggs, symbolizing sudden wealth and greed.
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A.
The Egg
The Egg is a modern, student-centered dining and learning facility at the Culinary Institute of America’s Hyde Park campus that showcases culinary education in a real-world restaurant environment.
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B.
The Egg
The Egg is an iconic, egg-shaped performing arts venue in Albany, New York, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and role as a cultural center.
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C.
The Wise Little Hen
The Wise Little Hen is a 1934 Walt Disney animated short film best known for introducing the character Donald Duck.
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D.
Золотой петушок
«Золотой петушок» — это последняя опера Николая Римского-Корсакова, сатирическая музыкальная сказка по одноимённой поэме Пушкина о самодурстве и гибели самодержавного правителя.
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E.
Goose Eggs
"Goose Eggs" is a song by the band Divers, known for its emotionally charged indie rock sound and vivid storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fairy tale character
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fictional character ⓘ magical animal ⓘ mythical bird ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jack and the Beanstalk ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | fairy tale ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition | English folklore ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Jack
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the giant ⓘ |
| associatedWithMoral | greed can lead to loss ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
consequences of greed
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temptation of easy wealth ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory | magic objects and creatures in folklore ⓘ |
| commandPhraseInStory | Lay, golden eggs ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
metaphor for a reliable source of profit
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warning against exploiting a resource to exhaustion ⓘ |
| eggColor | golden ⓘ |
| eggType | magical egg ⓘ |
| hasAbility | lay golden eggs ⓘ |
| hasColor | often depicted as white or brown hen ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | older fable motif of a bird that lays golden eggs ⓘ |
| keptBy | giant in his castle ⓘ |
| laterOwnedBy | Jack ⓘ |
| materialOfEggs | gold ⓘ |
| medium |
children’s literature
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oral tradition ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
object of theft
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source of wealth for Jack ⓘ |
| ownedBy | giant in Jack and the Beanstalk ⓘ |
| produces | golden eggs ⓘ |
| relatedProverb | killing the goose that laid the golden eggs ⓘ |
| species | hen ⓘ |
| stolenBy | Jack ⓘ |
| storyFunction |
motivates Jack’s theft from the giant
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provides ongoing income in some versions ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
good fortune
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greed ⓘ sudden wealth ⓘ unearned riches ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
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families ⓘ |
| usedAs | literary symbol in adaptations ⓘ |
| valueOfEggs | extremely valuable ⓘ |
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: the hen that lays golden eggs Description of subject: The hen that lays golden eggs is a magical bird in the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" that produces valuable golden eggs, symbolizing sudden wealth and greed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.