The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
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The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story is a famous Uncle Remus folktale in which the clever trickster Br'er Rabbit becomes stuck to a tar figure, leading to a series of humorous and cunning escapades.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story canonical | 2 |
| Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15193670 — 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: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story Context triple: [Br'er Rabbit, notableStory, The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story]
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A.
The King of the Golden River
The King of the Golden River is a Victorian fairy tale by John Ruskin that blends moral allegory with fantasy in the story of three brothers and a magical river in a mountainous land.
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B.
Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores moral and psychological themes through allegorical and Gothic narratives.
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C.
The Tiger in the Well
The Tiger in the Well is a historical mystery novel by Philip Pullman featuring young detective Sally Lockhart as she confronts a sinister conspiracy in Victorian London.
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D.
In the Land of the Head Hunters
In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent feature film by photographer Edward S. Curtis that dramatizes the life and culture of the Kwakwaka'wakw people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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E.
La tía Tula
La tía Tula is a novel by Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno that explores themes of motherhood, morality, and repression through the life of a domineering, self-sacrificing aunt.
- 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: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story Target entity description: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story is a famous Uncle Remus folktale in which the clever trickster Br'er Rabbit becomes stuck to a tar figure, leading to a series of humorous and cunning escapades.
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A.
The King of the Golden River
The King of the Golden River is a Victorian fairy tale by John Ruskin that blends moral allegory with fantasy in the story of three brothers and a magical river in a mountainous land.
-
B.
Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores moral and psychological themes through allegorical and Gothic narratives.
-
C.
The Tiger in the Well
The Tiger in the Well is a historical mystery novel by Philip Pullman featuring young detective Sally Lockhart as she confronts a sinister conspiracy in Victorian London.
-
D.
In the Land of the Head Hunters
In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent feature film by photographer Edward S. Curtis that dramatizes the life and culture of the Kwakwaka'wakw people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
-
E.
La tía Tula
La tía Tula is a novel by Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno that explores themes of motherhood, morality, and repression through the life of a domineering, self-sacrificing aunt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story