Mr. Scratch
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Mr. Scratch is the cunning, devilish antagonist who bargains for souls in Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Scratch canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7558034 — 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: Mr. Scratch Context triple: [The Devil and Daniel Webster, characterIn, Mr. Scratch]
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A.
Buckwild
Buckwild is an American hip-hop producer and member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), known for his influential work with artists like The Notorious B.I.G., O.C., and Big L.
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B.
Tik-Tok
Tik-Tok is a mechanical man from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, often considered one of the earliest robots in modern fantasy literature.
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C.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
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D.
Gnasty Gnorc
Gnasty Gnorc is the main antagonist and final boss of the original Spyro the Dragon game, known as a powerful gnorc warlord who turns dragons into crystal.
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E.
Plump Jack
Plump Jack is an opera by American composer Gordon Getty, based on the character Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare’s history plays.
- 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: Mr. Scratch Target entity description: Mr. Scratch is the cunning, devilish antagonist who bargains for souls in Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
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A.
Buckwild
Buckwild is an American hip-hop producer and member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), known for his influential work with artists like The Notorious B.I.G., O.C., and Big L.
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B.
Tik-Tok
Tik-Tok is a mechanical man from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, often considered one of the earliest robots in modern fantasy literature.
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C.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
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D.
Gnasty Gnorc
Gnasty Gnorc is the main antagonist and final boss of the original Spyro the Dragon game, known as a powerful gnorc warlord who turns dragons into crystal.
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E.
Plump Jack
Plump Jack is an opera by American composer Gordon Getty, based on the character Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare’s history plays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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devil ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| alignment | evil ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Scratch
NERFINISHED
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the stranger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Devil and Daniel Webster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | literature ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
American patriotism versus evil
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Faustian bargain ⓘ legalism and justice ⓘ |
| basedOn | the Devil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterType |
soul-bargainer
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tempter ⓘ |
| conflictType | supernatural legal dispute ⓘ |
| createdBy | Stephen Vincent Benét NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | The Saturday Evening Post NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | soul trader ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
charming
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cunning ⓘ devious ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| influencedBy | traditional folklore figure Old Scratch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| makesDealWith | Jabez Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
legalistic manipulation of contracts
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making Faustian bargains ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Daniel Webster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation | to obtain human souls ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist in The Devil and Daniel Webster ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | supernatural being ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
binding contracts
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temptation ⓘ |
| workGenre |
American folklore-inspired fiction
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fantasy ⓘ short story ⓘ |
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: Mr. Scratch Description of subject: Mr. Scratch is the cunning, devilish antagonist who bargains for souls in Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.