Little Jack Horner
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Little Jack Horner is a traditional English nursery rhyme character best known for pulling a plum out of a Christmas pie with his thumb.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| "Little Jack Horner" nursery rhyme | 1 |
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
child character
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fictional character ⓘ nursery rhyme character ⓘ |
| activity |
eating pie
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sitting in a corner ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Little Jack Horner
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
"Little Jack Horner" nursery rhyme
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| associatedWith |
Christmas pie
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plum ⓘ thumb ⓘ |
| audience | children ⓘ |
| bodyPartUsed | thumb ⓘ |
| collectedIn | Mother Goose collections ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | proverbial expression for smug self-satisfaction ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | English folklore ⓘ |
| diminutiveForm | Little Jack Horner self-link ⓘ |
| exclamation | "What a good boy am I!" ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | legendary ⓘ |
| food |
Christmas pie
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plum ⓘ |
| genre | nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| hasName | Jack Horner ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| line |
"And said, 'What a good boy am I!'"
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"Eating a Christmas pie" ⓘ "He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum" ⓘ "Little Jack Horner sat in a corner" ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse ⓘ |
| medium | oral tradition ⓘ |
| notableFor | pulling a plum out of a Christmas pie with his thumb ⓘ |
| period | early modern England ⓘ |
| rhymeType | traditional nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| theme |
child behavior
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self-satisfaction ⓘ |
| usedAs |
children's song
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teaching rhyme ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
"Little Jack Horner" nursery rhyme