Ness
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Ness is a young boy with psychic powers and a baseball bat who serves as the protagonist of the cult-classic role-playing game EarthBound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ness canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20350231 — 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: Ness Context triple: [EarthBound, mainCharacter, Ness]
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A.
Ness
Ness is a small village in the civil parish of Neston on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Ness
Ness is a surname most famously associated with Eliot Ness, the American Prohibition agent who led the "Untouchables" in combating organized crime in Chicago.
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C.
Ness
Ness is a remote crofting and fishing community at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.
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D.
Olimar
Olimar is the diminutive spacefaring captain from the Pikmin video game series who commands and relies on Pikmin to survive and complete his missions.
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E.
Nin
Nin is a historic coastal town in Croatia known for its ancient salt pans, sandy beaches, and archaeological heritage dating back to Roman and early Croatian times.
- 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: Ness Target entity description: Ness is a young boy with psychic powers and a baseball bat who serves as the protagonist of the cult-classic role-playing game EarthBound.
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A.
Ness
Ness is a remote crofting and fishing community at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.
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B.
Ness
Ness is a small village in the civil parish of Neston on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England.
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C.
Ness
Ness is a surname most famously associated with Eliot Ness, the American Prohibition agent who led the "Untouchables" in combating organized crime in Chicago.
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D.
Olimar
Olimar is the diminutive spacefaring captain from the Pikmin video game series who commands and relies on Pikmin to survive and complete his missions.
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E.
Nin
Nin is a historic coastal town in Croatia known for its ancient salt pans, sandy beaches, and archaeological heritage dating back to Roman and early Croatian times.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.