Toomai of the Elephants
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"Toomai of the Elephants" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling about a young mahout boy whose bravery and secret witnessing of wild elephants dancing earns him a legendary place among elephant handlers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toomai of the Elephants canonical | 2 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | proving Toomai's courage and worth as a mahout ⓘ |
| collection | The Jungle Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresAnimal |
tamed elephants
ⓘ
wild elephants ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Kala Nag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | elephant ⓘ |
| featuresMotif |
initiation into a profession
ⓘ
secret knowledge of animals ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1894 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Jungle Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
children's literature ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
ⓘ
radio adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| hasIllustrationsInSomeEditions | true ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Toomai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | children ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | classic of children's literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Little Toomai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | mahout boy ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
bravery
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coming of age ⓘ human–animal bond ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Jungle Book stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement |
Toomai gains legendary status among elephant handlers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toomai secretly witnesses wild elephants dancing ⓘ |
| publicationType | fiction ⓘ |
| recognitionWithinStory | Toomai is honored by experienced elephant handlers ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Jungle Book
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Second Jungle Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | jungle ⓘ |
| settingRegion | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
elephant handling
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mahouts ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | British colonial India 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: Toomai of the Elephants Description of subject: "Toomai of the Elephants" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling about a young mahout boy whose bravery and secret witnessing of wild elephants dancing earns him a legendary place among elephant handlers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Jungle Book