Didactylos
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Didactylos is a cynical, half-blind philosopher and writer of a heretical book in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Didactylos canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796287 — 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: Didactylos Context triple: [Small Gods, featuresCharacter, Didactylos]
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A.
Dactylopsila
Dactylopsila is a genus of striped possums, small nocturnal marsupials native to New Guinea and nearby regions, known for their elongated fourth finger used to extract insects from wood.
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B.
Agelastes
Agelastes is a small genus of African guineafowl known for its relatively plain, dark plumage and forest-dwelling habits.
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C.
Phylacus
Phylacus is a figure from Greek mythology known as a leader of the Magnetes, a Thessalian people mentioned in epic tradition.
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D.
Moropus
Moropus is an extinct genus of horse-like, clawed herbivorous mammals that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch.
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E.
Pterelaus
Pterelaus is a mythological king in Greek legend, known for his golden, immortality-granting hair and his conflict with Amphitryon over the kingdom of the Taphians.
- 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: Didactylos Target entity description: Didactylos is a cynical, half-blind philosopher and writer of a heretical book in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
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A.
Dactylopsila
Dactylopsila is a genus of striped possums, small nocturnal marsupials native to New Guinea and nearby regions, known for their elongated fourth finger used to extract insects from wood.
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B.
Agelastes
Agelastes is a small genus of African guineafowl known for its relatively plain, dark plumage and forest-dwelling habits.
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C.
Phylacus
Phylacus is a figure from Greek mythology known as a leader of the Magnetes, a Thessalian people mentioned in epic tradition.
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D.
Moropus
Moropus is an extinct genus of horse-like, clawed herbivorous mammals that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch.
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E.
Pterelaus
Pterelaus is a mythological king in Greek legend, known for his golden, immortality-granting hair and his conflict with Amphitryon over the kingdom of the Taphians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Discworld character
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fictional character ⓘ philosopher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alignment | sympathetic heretic ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Small Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Discworld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Terry Pratchett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brutha
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Urn ⓘ |
| basedInUniverse | Omnian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
half-blind ⓘ |
| creator | Terry Pratchett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation | uncle of Urn ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Small Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy literature character ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conflict between reason and faith
ⓘ
religious skepticism ⓘ |
| humorStyle | dry wit ⓘ |
| influences | Brutha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Discworld series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| livesIn | Citadel of Om NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
heretic philosopher
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mentor figure ⓘ |
| nationality | Omnian ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Turtle Moves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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writer ⓘ |
| opposes | Omnian church orthodoxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalView |
skeptical of gods
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supports heliocentric cosmology ⓘ |
| physicalCondition | partially blind ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
chain-smoker
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old man ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Omnian religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Omnia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Discworld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| student | Brutha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses | donkey-drawn mobile home ⓘ |
| writes | heretical book ⓘ |
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: Didactylos Description of subject: Didactylos is a cynical, half-blind philosopher and writer of a heretical book in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel "Small Gods."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.