Tiger (West Side Story)
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Tiger is a minor member of the Jets gang in the musical and film "West Side Story."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gee-Tar (West Side Story) | 1 |
| Tiger (West Side Story) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9068854 — 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: Tiger (West Side Story) Context triple: [Jets (West Side Story), member, Tiger (West Side Story)]
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A.
Sharks (West Side Story)
The Sharks are a Puerto Rican street gang in the musical "West Side Story," serving as the rival group to the white American Jets and embodying themes of racism, immigration, and cultural conflict.
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B.
A-Rab (West Side Story)
A-Rab is one of the younger, more impulsive members of the Jets gang in *West Side Story*, often providing comic relief while embodying the tensions and loyalties of the group.
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C.
Diesel (West Side Story)
Diesel is a supporting character in the musical "West Side Story," portrayed as one of the Jets gang members and a close associate of their leader, Riff.
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D.
Riff (West Side Story)
Riff is the charismatic and hot-headed founder and leader of the Jets gang in the musical and film "West Side Story."
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E.
Snowboy (West Side Story)
Snowboy is a minor member of the Jets gang in *West Side Story*, often portrayed as a comic, wisecracking character within the group.
- 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: Tiger (West Side Story) Target entity description: Tiger is a minor member of the Jets gang in the musical and film "West Side Story."
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A.
Sharks (West Side Story)
The Sharks are a Puerto Rican street gang in the musical "West Side Story," serving as the rival group to the white American Jets and embodying themes of racism, immigration, and cultural conflict.
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B.
A-Rab (West Side Story)
A-Rab is one of the younger, more impulsive members of the Jets gang in *West Side Story*, often providing comic relief while embodying the tensions and loyalties of the group.
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C.
Diesel (West Side Story)
Diesel is a supporting character in the musical "West Side Story," portrayed as one of the Jets gang members and a close associate of their leader, Riff.
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D.
Riff (West Side Story)
Riff is the charismatic and hot-headed founder and leader of the Jets gang in the musical and film "West Side Story."
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E.
Snowboy (West Side Story)
Snowboy is a minor member of the Jets gang in *West Side Story*, often portrayed as a comic, wisecracking character within the group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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member of the Jets ⓘ |
| affiliation | Jets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
West Side Story (1961 film)
NERFINISHED
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West Side Story (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | West Side Story (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictSide | rival of the Sharks ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre | musical theatre character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse | West Side Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInStory | minor character ⓘ |
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: Tiger (West Side Story) Description of subject: Tiger is a minor member of the Jets gang in the musical and film "West Side Story."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.