Corduroy
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Corduroy is a classic 1968 children's picture book by Don Freeman about a teddy bear in a department store searching for his missing button and a home.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corduroy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6230342 — 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: Corduroy Context triple: [Corduroy, title, Corduroy]
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A.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
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B.
Tuck
Tuck is one of the twin pill bug circus performers in Pixar's animated film "A Bug's Life," known for his comedic antics alongside his brother Roll.
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C.
Tuck
Tuck is the nickname of Turkey Stearnes, a Hall of Fame Negro Leagues baseball star known for his powerful hitting and all-around excellence.
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D.
Penrod
Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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E.
The Little American
The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
- 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: Corduroy Target entity description: Corduroy is a classic 1968 children's picture book by Don Freeman about a teddy bear in a department store searching for his missing button and a home.
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A.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
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B.
Tuck
Tuck is one of the twin pill bug circus performers in Pixar's animated film "A Bug's Life," known for his comedic antics alongside his brother Roll.
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C.
Tuck
Tuck is the nickname of Turkey Stearnes, a Hall of Fame Negro Leagues baseball star known for his powerful hitting and all-around excellence.
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D.
Penrod
Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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E.
The Little American
The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's picture book
ⓘ
fictional work ⓘ |
| author | Don Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | Corduroy searches for his missing button and a home ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
children's literature
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picture book ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
animated adaptation
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stage adaptation ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Lisa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lisa's mother ⓘ |
| hasIllustrator | Don Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMoral |
everyone deserves a home and love
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true friendship is not based on perfection ⓘ |
| hasSequel | A Pocket for Corduroy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Corduroy (teddy bear) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a classic American children's picture book ⓘ |
| originalIllustrationsStyle | colored drawings ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A teddy bear in a department store searches for his missing button and finds a home with a girl named Lisa. ⓘ |
| protagonistType | teddy bear ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
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| setting | department store ⓘ |
| settingType | urban department store ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young children ⓘ |
| theme |
acceptance
ⓘ
belonging ⓘ friendship ⓘ 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: Corduroy Description of subject: Corduroy is a classic 1968 children's picture book by Don Freeman about a teddy bear in a department store searching for his missing button and a home.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.