Cogsworth
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Cogsworth is the pompous yet endearing enchanted mantel clock who serves as the Beast’s strict but loyal majordomo in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cogsworth canonical | 9 |
| Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7494562 — 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: Cogsworth Context triple: [Beauty and the Beast (2017 film), character, Cogsworth]
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A.
Hoggle
Hoggle is a gruff yet ultimately loyal dwarf-like creature from the fantasy film "Labyrinth," who helps guide the protagonist through the maze.
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B.
Gaston
Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin commonly used in Francophone countries and beyond.
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C.
Douzy
Douzy is a small commune in the Ardennes department of northern France, known for its rural character and cross-border ties, including a town twinning with Kaiserslautern in Germany.
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D.
Hunchback
Hunchback is the English nickname for the Italian World War II Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero bomber, known for its distinctive humped fuselage profile.
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E.
Guy le Gros
Guy le Gros is another name for Pope Clement IV, the 13th-century head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States.
- 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: Cogsworth Target entity description: Cogsworth is the pompous yet endearing enchanted mantel clock who serves as the Beast’s strict but loyal majordomo in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
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A.
Hoggle
Hoggle is a gruff yet ultimately loyal dwarf-like creature from the fantasy film "Labyrinth," who helps guide the protagonist through the maze.
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B.
Gaston
Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin commonly used in Francophone countries and beyond.
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C.
Douzy
Douzy is a small commune in the Ardennes department of northern France, known for its rural character and cross-border ties, including a town twinning with Kaiserslautern in Germany.
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D.
Hunchback
Hunchback is the English nickname for the Italian World War II Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero bomber, known for its distinctive humped fuselage profile.
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E.
Guy le Gros
Guy le Gros is another name for Pope Clement IV, the 13th-century head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Disney character
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animated character ⓘ clock ⓘ enchanted object ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
NERFINISHED
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Beauty and the Beast (2017 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas NERFINISHED ⓘ Belle's Magical World NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Mouse NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom Hearts series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | the clock character in Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's fairy tale Beauty and the Beast (loosely) ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Disney
NERFINISHED
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Walt Disney Animation Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | the Beast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Gaston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Beauty and the Beast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchiseOwner | The Walt Disney Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf |
Belle
NERFINISHED
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Lumière NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Potts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Cogsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| medium |
animated film
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live-action film ⓘ |
| nationality | French (implied setting) ⓘ |
| notableQuote | If it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it! ⓘ |
| occupation |
majordomo
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steward ⓘ |
| originalForm | human ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
cautious
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loyal ⓘ pompous ⓘ strict ⓘ uptight ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ian McKellen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesIn | Beast's Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
advisor to the Beast
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comic relief ⓘ |
| servesAs | majordomo of the Beast ⓘ |
| species | enchanted clock ⓘ |
| transformedBy | the Enchantress's curse ⓘ |
| voiceActor |
Corey Burton
NERFINISHED
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David Ogden Stiers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cogsworth Description of subject: Cogsworth is the pompous yet endearing enchanted mantel clock who serves as the Beast’s strict but loyal majordomo in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast