Tadfield
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Tadfield is a seemingly ordinary English village that serves as the central, idyllic backdrop for the apocalyptic events in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel "Good Omens."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tadfield canonical | 2 |
| Tadfield, Oxfordshire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796333 — 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: Tadfield Context triple: [Good Omens, setting, Tadfield]
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A.
Tatsfield
Tatsfield is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, situated near the border with Greater London and Kent.
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B.
Waldringfield
Waldringfield is a small riverside village in eastern England known for its scenic setting on the River Deben and sailing activities.
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C.
Therfield
Therfield is a small rural village in Hertfordshire, England, known for its surrounding chalk downland and proximity to the prehistoric Therfield Heath.
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D.
Tadcaster
Tadcaster is a historic market town in North Yorkshire, England, known for its brewing industry and location between York and Leeds.
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E.
Totton
Totton is a town in Hampshire, England, situated near the River Test on the outskirts of the New Forest and close to the city of Southampton.
- 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: Tadfield Target entity description: Tadfield is a seemingly ordinary English village that serves as the central, idyllic backdrop for the apocalyptic events in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel "Good Omens."
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A.
Tatsfield
Tatsfield is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, situated near the border with Greater London and Kent.
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B.
Waldringfield
Waldringfield is a small riverside village in eastern England known for its scenic setting on the River Deben and sailing activities.
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C.
Therfield
Therfield is a small rural village in Hertfordshire, England, known for its surrounding chalk downland and proximity to the prehistoric Therfield Heath.
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D.
Tadcaster
Tadcaster is a historic market town in North Yorkshire, England, known for its brewing industry and location between York and Leeds.
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E.
Totton
Totton is a town in Hampshire, England, situated near the River Test on the outskirts of the New Forest and close to the city of Southampton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional village ⓘ setting in a novel ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Good Omens (2019 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Good Omens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy |
Neil Gaiman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terry Pratchett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Antichrist
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Armageddon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Tadfield Air Base
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tadfield Manor NERFINISHED ⓘ Tadfield village green ⓘ country lanes ⓘ local school ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| describedAs | seemingly ordinary English village ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Good Omens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext |
fantasy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
idyllic
ⓘ
peaceful ⓘ rural ⓘ |
| hasClimate | unusually pleasant weather ⓘ |
| hasPhenomenon | subtly altered reality around Adam Young ⓘ |
| hasResident | Adam Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResidentGroup | the Them ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Oxfordshire ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
backdrop for apocalyptic events
ⓘ
primary setting of Good Omens ⓘ |
| plotSignificance | center of approaching Armageddon ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | quintessential English countryside village ⓘ |
| publicationContext | Good Omens (1990 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workTypeContext | comic fantasy novel ⓘ |
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: Tadfield Description of subject: Tadfield is a seemingly ordinary English village that serves as the central, idyllic backdrop for the apocalyptic events in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel "Good Omens."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tadfield, Oxfordshire