Marcus Yallow
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Marcus Yallow is the teenage hacker protagonist of Cory Doctorow's novel "Little Brother," known for leading a tech-savvy resistance against government surveillance and authoritarianism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcus Yallow canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1389977 — 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: Marcus Yallow Context triple: [Little Brother, mainCharacter, Marcus Yallow]
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A.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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B.
Royce Waltman
Royce Waltman was an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Indiana State Sycamores program and leading them to multiple postseason appearances.
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C.
Nicholas Gage
Nicholas Gage is a Greek-American author and former investigative journalist best known for his memoir "Eleni," which recounts his mother's execution during the Greek Civil War.
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D.
Alex Vause
Alex Vause is a central character in the television series "Orange Is the New Black," known as a sharp-witted, morally ambiguous drug smuggler and the on-and-off love interest of Piper Chapman.
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E.
Dorian Sagan
Dorian Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, complexity, and the philosophy of science, often co-authored with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
- 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: Marcus Yallow Target entity description: Marcus Yallow is the teenage hacker protagonist of Cory Doctorow's novel "Little Brother," known for leading a tech-savvy resistance against government surveillance and authoritarianism.
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A.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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B.
Royce Waltman
Royce Waltman was an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Indiana State Sycamores program and leading them to multiple postseason appearances.
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C.
Nicholas Gage
Nicholas Gage is a Greek-American author and former investigative journalist best known for his memoir "Eleni," which recounts his mother's execution during the Greek Civil War.
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D.
Alex Vause
Alex Vause is a central character in the television series "Orange Is the New Black," known as a sharp-witted, morally ambiguous drug smuggler and the on-and-off love interest of Piper Chapman.
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E.
Dorian Sagan
Dorian Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, complexity, and the philosophy of science, often co-authored with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| age | teenager ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Little Brother ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Xnet ⓘ |
| basedOn | themes of civil liberties and digital rights ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Cory Doctorow ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst |
authoritarianism
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mass surveillance ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
novel Little Brother (2008)
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linked to:
Little Brother
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Darryl Glover
ⓘ
Jolu ⓘ Vanessa Pak ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
computer security
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cryptography ⓘ gaming ⓘ social engineering ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (in-name reference to Winston Smith)
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linked to:
George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hacking
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leading resistance against government surveillance ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork | Tor Books ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco ⓘ |
| themeOfStory |
civil liberties
ⓘ
government overreach ⓘ privacy ⓘ |
| usesAlias |
M1k3y
ⓘ
w1n5t0n ⓘ |
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: Marcus Yallow Description of subject: Marcus Yallow is the teenage hacker protagonist of Cory Doctorow's novel "Little Brother," known for leading a tech-savvy resistance against government surveillance and authoritarianism.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.