Dede Tate
E136936
Dede Tate is a central character in the film "Little Man Tate," portrayed as the caring but overwhelmed single mother of a child prodigy.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1180905 — 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: Dede Tate Context triple: [Little Man Tate, hasMainCharacter, Dede Tate]
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A.
Hielan’ Laddie
Hielan’ Laddie is a traditional Scottish pipe tune widely known as a military march, particularly associated with Highland regiments.
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Malvina Reynolds
Malvina Reynolds was an American folk singer-songwriter and political activist best known for her socially conscious songs like "Little Boxes" that became emblematic of the 1960s folk music revival.
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C.
Leslie
Leslie is a small town in Fife, Scotland, situated near Glenrothes and known historically for its textile and papermaking industries.
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D.
Leslie
Leslie is a Toronto subway station on Line 4 Sheppard in the city's transit system.
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E.
Leslie
Leslie is the given name of Leslie R. Groves Jr., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
- 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: Dede Tate Target entity description: Dede Tate is a central character in the film "Little Man Tate," portrayed as the caring but overwhelmed single mother of a child prodigy.
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A.
Hielan’ Laddie
Hielan’ Laddie is a traditional Scottish pipe tune widely known as a military march, particularly associated with Highland regiments.
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B.
Malvina Reynolds
Malvina Reynolds was an American folk singer-songwriter and political activist best known for her socially conscious songs like "Little Boxes" that became emblematic of the 1960s folk music revival.
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C.
Leslie
Leslie is the given name of Leslie R. Groves Jr., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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D.
Leslie
Leslie is a small town in Fife, Scotland, situated near Glenrothes and known historically for its textile and papermaking industries.
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E.
Leslie
Leslie is a Toronto subway station on Line 4 Sheppard in the city's transit system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Little Man Tate ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
class differences
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parenting a gifted child ⓘ single motherhood ⓘ |
| caresFor | Fred Tate ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
caring
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overwhelmed ⓘ protective ⓘ working-class ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Scott Frank ⓘ |
| familyName | Tate ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Little Man Tate (1991 film)
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linked to:
Little Man Tate
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName |
Dede
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linked to:
Dede Tate
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| hasChild | Fred Tate ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | single ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation | waitress ⓘ |
| parentOf | Fred Tate ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jodie Foster ⓘ |
| setting |
Cincinnati, Ohio
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linked to:
Cincinnati
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| strugglesWith |
financial difficulties
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raising a child prodigy ⓘ |
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: Dede Tate Description of subject: Dede Tate is a central character in the film "Little Man Tate," portrayed as the caring but overwhelmed single mother of a child prodigy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.