Hector Zeroni
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Hector Zeroni, nicknamed "Zero," is a quiet, illiterate but highly intelligent boy and fellow camper at Camp Green Lake who becomes Stanley Yelnats’ closest friend in Louis Sachar’s novel "Holes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hector Zeroni canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7357148 — 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: Hector Zeroni Context triple: [Holes, character, Hector Zeroni]
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A.
Steve Corica
Steve Corica is a former Australian attacking midfielder best known for his long and influential playing and coaching career with A-League club Sydney FC.
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B.
Max Da Costa
Max Da Costa is the protagonist of the sci-fi film "Elysium," a former car thief who undertakes a dangerous mission to reach a luxurious space habitat and challenge its oppressive class system.
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C.
Eduardo Abaroa
Eduardo Abaroa was a 19th-century Bolivian hero and civilian defender celebrated for his role in the War of the Pacific.
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D.
Alex Marquez
Alex Marquez is a film editor known for his work on projects such as the 2016 biographical thriller "Snowden."
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E.
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi is an Italian luxury footwear brand renowned for its high-end, handcrafted women’s shoes and elegant design.
- 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: Hector Zeroni Target entity description: Hector Zeroni, nicknamed "Zero," is a quiet, illiterate but highly intelligent boy and fellow camper at Camp Green Lake who becomes Stanley Yelnats’ closest friend in Louis Sachar’s novel "Holes."
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A.
Steve Corica
Steve Corica is a former Australian attacking midfielder best known for his long and influential playing and coaching career with A-League club Sydney FC.
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B.
Max Da Costa
Max Da Costa is the protagonist of the sci-fi film "Elysium," a former car thief who undertakes a dangerous mission to reach a luxurious space habitat and challenge its oppressive class system.
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C.
Eduardo Abaroa
Eduardo Abaroa was a 19th-century Bolivian hero and civilian defender celebrated for his role in the War of the Pacific.
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D.
Alex Marquez
Alex Marquez is a film editor known for his work on projects such as the 2016 biographical thriller "Snowden."
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E.
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi is an Italian luxury footwear brand renowned for its high-end, handcrafted women’s shoes and elegant design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| ability |
excellent digger
ⓘ
fast digger ⓘ strong mental math skills ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| ancestralConnection | descendant of Madame Zeroni ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Holes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Louis Sachar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithObject | suitcase with name "Stanley Yelnats" ⓘ |
| backstory | ran away from his mother ⓘ |
| bestFriend | Stanley Yelnats IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeTo | Stanley Yelnats IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Mr. Pendanski
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mr. Sir NERFINISHED ⓘ Warden Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Louis Sachar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationStatus | illiterate at beginning of story ⓘ |
| familyName | Zeroni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | novel "Holes" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Hector Zeroni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| group | D tent boys ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the quietest camper
ⓘ
digging the fastest holes ⓘ |
| learnsSkill |
reading
ⓘ
writing ⓘ |
| legalStatus | juvenile detainee at Camp Green Lake ⓘ |
| medium | children's novel ⓘ |
| nickname | Zero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | camper at Camp Green Lake ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
intelligent
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ quiet ⓘ |
| plotRole |
Stanley Yelnats’ closest friend
ⓘ
deuteragonist of "Holes" ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Madame Zeroni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Camp Green Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | homeless before Camp Green Lake ⓘ |
| storyArc |
helps uncover the buried treasure
ⓘ
is found and helped by Stanley in the desert ⓘ returns to Camp Green Lake with Stanley ⓘ runs away from Camp Green Lake ⓘ |
| teacher | Stanley Yelnats IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeConnection |
family curses and destiny
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friendship ⓘ illiteracy and education ⓘ |
| trait |
initially rarely speaks
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trusts Stanley ⓘ |
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: Hector Zeroni Description of subject: Hector Zeroni, nicknamed "Zero," is a quiet, illiterate but highly intelligent boy and fellow camper at Camp Green Lake who becomes Stanley Yelnats’ closest friend in Louis Sachar’s novel "Holes."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.