Toby
E114760
Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toby canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T968762 — 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: Toby Context triple: [MaddAddam, mainCharacter, Toby]
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A.
Tobias
Tobias was a Native American man from the 17th-century Wampanoag community, known primarily through his familial connection to the Sakonnet leader Awashonks.
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B.
Trevor
Trevor is a masculine given name of English origin commonly used in the UK and other English-speaking countries.
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C.
Tuffy
Tuffy is the live Tamaskan dog who serves as the official canine mascot for North Carolina State University’s athletic teams.
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D.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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E.
Timothy
Timothy is a prominent early Christian companion and protégé of the Apostle Paul, known from the New Testament for his missionary work and pastoral leadership.
- 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: Toby Target entity description: Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
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A.
Tobias
Tobias was a Native American man from the 17th-century Wampanoag community, known primarily through his familial connection to the Sakonnet leader Awashonks.
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B.
Trevor
Trevor is a masculine given name of English origin commonly used in the UK and other English-speaking countries.
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C.
Tuffy
Tuffy is the live Tamaskan dog who serves as the official canine mascot for North Carolina State University’s athletic teams.
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D.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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E.
Timothy
Timothy is a prominent early Christian companion and protégé of the Apostle Paul, known from the New Testament for his missionary work and pastoral leadership.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
MaddAddam trilogy
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linked to:
MaddAddam
|
| appearsInWork |
MaddAddam
ⓘ
Oryx and Crake ⓘ The Year of the Flood ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
ecology
ⓘ
ethics ⓘ memory and storytelling ⓘ religion and spirituality ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction |
Canada (implied setting)
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linked to:
Canada
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| createdBy | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith |
Amanda
ⓘ
Crakers ⓘ Jimmy (Snowman) ⓘ Ren ⓘ Zeb ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
foraging
ⓘ
healing ⓘ storytelling ⓘ survival skills ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
morally complex
ⓘ
pragmatic ⓘ resilient ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse |
MaddAddam universe
ⓘ
linked to:
MaddAddam
|
| memberOf | God’s Gardeners ⓘ |
| moralPerspective | situational ethics ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central protagonist
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point-of-view character ⓘ |
| occupation |
bee-keeper
ⓘ
healer ⓘ spa worker ⓘ |
| roleInGroup |
Adams and Eves leader
ⓘ
Gardener ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | mediator between humans and Crakers ⓘ |
| setting |
near-future North America
ⓘ
post-apocalyptic world ⓘ |
| survivesEvent |
Waterless Flood
ⓘ
global pandemic ⓘ |
| tellsStoriesTo | Crakers ⓘ |
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: Toby Description of subject: Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.