Le Petit Poucet
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Le Petit Poucet is a classic French fairy tale, often known in English as "Hop-o'-My-Thumb," about a clever youngest son who outwits an ogre to save himself and his brothers.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Petit Poucet canonical | 4 |
| LePetitPoucet_(character) | 2 |
| BrothersOfLePetitPoucet | 1 |
| LePetitPoucet_(film_2001) | 1 |
| LePetitPoucet_(film_2011) | 1 |
| LittlePoucet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12772012 — 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: Le Petit Poucet Context triple: [Histoires ou contes du temps passé, containsWork, Le Petit Poucet]
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A.
Histoire d’un casse-noisette
Histoire d’un casse-noisette is the original French title of Alexandre Dumas’s literary adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fairy tale that later inspired Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet The Nutcracker.
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B.
Petite Poucette
Petite Poucette is a philosophical essay by Michel Serres that reflects on how digital technologies and new forms of communication are transforming education, culture, and the way younger generations think and live.
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C.
Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant
Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant is the iconic Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Paris, serving as the park’s central fairytale landmark and visual centerpiece.
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D.
La Fée aux Choux
La Fée aux Choux is an early French silent short film, often cited as one of the first narrative films and a pioneering work in cinema history.
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E.
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin is a classic fairy-tale villain known for his magical ability to spin straw into gold and his habit of striking dangerous bargains that hinge on discovering his secret name.
- 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: Le Petit Poucet Target entity description: Le Petit Poucet is a classic French fairy tale, often known in English as "Hop-o'-My-Thumb," about a clever youngest son who outwits an ogre to save himself and his brothers.
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A.
Histoire d’un casse-noisette
Histoire d’un casse-noisette is the original French title of Alexandre Dumas’s literary adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fairy tale that later inspired Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet The Nutcracker.
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B.
Petite Poucette
Petite Poucette is a philosophical essay by Michel Serres that reflects on how digital technologies and new forms of communication are transforming education, culture, and the way younger generations think and live.
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C.
Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant
Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant is the iconic Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Paris, serving as the park’s central fairytale landmark and visual centerpiece.
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D.
La Fée aux Choux
La Fée aux Choux is an early French silent short film, often cited as one of the first narrative films and a pioneering work in cinema history.
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E.
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin is a classic fairy-tale villain known for his magical ability to spin straw into gold and his habit of striking dangerous bargains that hinge on discovering his secret name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FrenchFairyTale
ⓘ
fairyTale ⓘ folkTale ⓘ literaryWork ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
ⓘ
LittlePoucet ⓘ
linked to:
Le Petit Poucet
LittleThumb ⓘ
linked to:
Teeny-Tiny
|
| author |
Charles Perrault
ⓘ
linked to:
Perrault
|
| centralTheme |
abandonmentOfChildren
ⓘ
cleverness ⓘ poverty ⓘ survival ⓘ trickery ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
BrothersOfLePetitPoucet
ⓘ
linked to:
Le Petit Poucet
LePetitPoucet_(character) ⓘ
linked to:
Le Petit Poucet
Ogre'sWife_(LePetitPoucet) ⓘ
linked to:
Ogre_(LePetitPoucet)
Ogre_(LePetitPoucet) ⓘ ParentsOfLePetitPoucet ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1697 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
HistoiresOuContesDuTempsPassé
ⓘ
linked to:
Histoires ou contes du temps passé
|
| genre |
children'sLiterature
ⓘ
fairyTale ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Hop-o'-My-Thumb_(variousStageAdaptations)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
LePetitPoucet_(film_2001) ⓘ
linked to:
Le Petit Poucet
LePetitPoucet_(film_2011) ⓘ
linked to:
Le Petit Poucet
|
| includedInCollectionBy |
CharlesPerrault
ⓘ
linked to:
Perrault
|
| influencedWork | laterRetellingsOfHop-o'-My-Thumb ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | children ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 17thCenturyLiterature ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | FrenchFolklore ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
LePetitPoucet_(character)
ⓘ
linked to:
Le Petit Poucet
|
| moral |
resourcefulnessCanChangeFate
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witAndIntelligenceCanOvercomePhysicalWeakness ⓘ |
| motif |
abandonedChildrenInTheForest
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breadcrumbsOrPebblesTrail ⓘ ogre ⓘ sevenLeagueBoots ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | thirdPerson ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Apoorwoodcutter'syoungestsonuseshiswitsandpebblestomarkatrail,thwartsanogre,andrescueshisbrothers. ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait |
intelligent
ⓘ
resourceful ⓘ smallStature ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
HanselAndGretel
ⓘ
linked to:
Hansel & Gretel
|
| setting | ruralFrance ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | unspecifiedPast ⓘ |
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: Le Petit Poucet Description of subject: Le Petit Poucet is a classic French fairy tale, often known in English as "Hop-o'-My-Thumb," about a clever youngest son who outwits an ogre to save himself and his brothers.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Le Petit Poucet
linked to: Le Petit Poucet
linked to: Le Petit Poucet
linked to: Le Petit Poucet
linked to: Le Petit Poucet
linked to: Le Petit Poucet