Nobody Owens
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Nobody Owens is the orphaned boy raised by ghosts and other supernatural beings in Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel "The Graveyard Book."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nobody Owens canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6944521 — 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: Nobody Owens Context triple: [The Graveyard Book, mainCharacter, Nobody Owens]
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A.
Owen Shaw
Owen Shaw is a skilled and ruthless British mercenary and criminal mastermind who serves as a primary antagonist in the Fast & Furious film franchise.
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B.
Owen
Owen is a common Welsh-origin surname borne by many people, including the renowned World War I poet Wilfred Owen.
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C.
Owen
Owen is a settlement located near Teck Castle in Germany.
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D.
Owen Nolan
Owen Nolan is a retired Canadian right winger known for his power-forward style, five NHL All-Star selections, and long tenure as captain of the San Jose Sharks.
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E.
Owen Moran
Owen Moran was a prominent early 20th-century English featherweight boxer known for his toughness and for facing many of the era’s top fighters.
- 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: Nobody Owens Target entity description: Nobody Owens is the orphaned boy raised by ghosts and other supernatural beings in Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel "The Graveyard Book."
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A.
Owen Shaw
Owen Shaw is a skilled and ruthless British mercenary and criminal mastermind who serves as a primary antagonist in the Fast & Furious film franchise.
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B.
Owen
Owen is a common Welsh-origin surname borne by many people, including the renowned World War I poet Wilfred Owen.
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C.
Owen
Owen is a settlement located near Teck Castle in Germany.
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D.
Owen Nolan
Owen Nolan is a retired Canadian right winger known for his power-forward style, five NHL All-Star selections, and long tenure as captain of the San Jose Sharks.
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E.
Owen Moran
Owen Moran was a prominent early 20th-century English featherweight boxer known for his toughness and for facing many of the era’s top fighters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adoptiveFamily |
Mr. Owens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mrs. Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adoptiveParentsType | ghosts ⓘ |
| ageAtStartOfStory | toddler ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Graveyard Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | fantasy novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith | The Honour Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mowgli-type feral child archetype ⓘ |
| canSee |
supernatural beings
ⓘ
the dead ⓘ |
| centralCharacterOf | The Graveyard Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Neil Gaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationFrom |
Miss Lupescu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Silas NERFINISHED ⓘ ghosts ⓘ |
| familyNameOrigin | Owens family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Graveyard Book universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYearOfWork | 2008 ⓘ |
| friend |
Liza Hempstock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scarlett Amber Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Nobody Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Nobody NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| growsUpIn | graveyard community ⓘ |
| guardian | Silas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
Dreamwalking
ⓘ
Fade NERFINISHED ⓘ Haunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredByWork | The Jungle Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInLife | British ⓘ |
| raisedBy |
ghosts
ⓘ
supernatural beings ⓘ |
| raisedIn | graveyard ⓘ |
| residence | graveyard ⓘ |
| status | orphan ⓘ |
| surname | Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survived | attempted murder of his family ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
coming of age
ⓘ
identity ⓘ life and death ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | the man Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nobody Owens Description of subject: Nobody Owens is the orphaned boy raised by ghosts and other supernatural beings in Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel "The Graveyard Book."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.