Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger
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Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger is a minor hobbit character in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, known as a friend of Frodo Baggins who helps cover his departure from the Shire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11048903 — 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: Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger Context triple: [Crickhollow, visitedBy, Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger]
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Bobby Franks
Bobby Franks was a 14-year-old Chicago boy whose 1924 kidnapping and murder by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb became one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history.
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B.
Bernie Federko
Bernie Federko is a Hall of Fame Canadian center best known as a longtime offensive star and playmaker for the St. Louis Blues in the NHL.
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C.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Billy L. Sullivan
Billy L. Sullivan is an American actor best known for his role on the sitcom "The Golden Palace."
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E.
Elam Ferguson
Elam Ferguson is a formerly enslaved man who becomes a central figure in the post–Civil War frontier drama of the TV series "Hell on Wheels," navigating racial tensions, violence, and his search for identity and justice.
- 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: Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger Target entity description: Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger is a minor hobbit character in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, known as a friend of Frodo Baggins who helps cover his departure from the Shire.
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A.
Bobby Franks
Bobby Franks was a 14-year-old Chicago boy whose 1924 kidnapping and murder by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb became one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history.
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B.
Bernie Federko
Bernie Federko is a Hall of Fame Canadian center best known as a longtime offensive star and playmaker for the St. Louis Blues in the NHL.
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C.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Billy L. Sullivan
Billy L. Sullivan is an American actor best known for his role on the sitcom "The Golden Palace."
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E.
Elam Ferguson
Elam Ferguson is a formerly enslaved man who becomes a central figure in the post–Civil War frontier drama of the TV series "Hell on Wheels," navigating racial tensions, violence, and his search for identity and justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in The Lord of the Rings
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Fictional hobbit ⓘ Resident of the Shire ⓘ |
| action |
Poses as Frodo Baggins at Crickhollow
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Stays behind in the Shire when Frodo leaves ⓘ |
| ageGroup | Adult during the War of the Ring ⓘ |
| alias | Fatty Bolger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Fellowship of the Ring
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Lord of the Rings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedLocation | Eastfarthing of the Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToFamily | Bolger family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Ruffians of Sharkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Shire-hobbit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| event | Flees from the Black Riders at Crickhollow ⓘ |
| familyName | Bolger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Odovacar Bolger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf |
Frodo Baggins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Meriadoc Brandybuck NERFINISHED ⓘ Peregrin Took NERFINISHED ⓘ Samwise Gamgee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Fredegar Bolger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | Male ⓘ |
| homeArea | Buckland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeRegion | The Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| imprisonedAt | Lockholes in Michel Delving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Westron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterRole | Member of the Shire resistance against Sharkey ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maternalFamily | Took family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Rosamunda Took NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | Helps explain Frodo's secret departure ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
Considered fat by other hobbits
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Courageous despite fearfulness ⓘ Fond of food ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Black Riders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| race | Hobbit ⓘ |
| relative |
Bilbo Baggins
NERFINISHED
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Frodo Baggins NERFINISHED ⓘ Meriadoc Brandybuck NERFINISHED ⓘ Peregrin Took NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasedAfter | Scouring of the Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesAt | Crickhollow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | Helps cover Frodo Baggins's departure from the Shire ⓘ |
| species | Hobbit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Late Third Age 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: Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger Description of subject: Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger is a minor hobbit character in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, known as a friend of Frodo Baggins who helps cover his departure from the Shire.
Referenced by (3)
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