w1n5t0n
E159908
w1n5t0n is the online handle of Marcus Yallow, the teenage hacker and civil liberties activist who narrates Cory Doctorow’s novel "Little Brother."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| w1n5t0n canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1389978 — 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: w1n5t0n Context triple: [Little Brother, protagonistAlias, w1n5t0n]
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A.
WN
WN is the IATA airline designator used to identify Southwest Airlines in flight schedules, ticketing, and aviation operations.
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B.
WU
WU is a leading European university in Vienna specializing in economics, business, and social sciences.
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C.
TON
TON is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing the Kingdom of Tonga.
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D.
W
W is one of the iconic white capital letters that make up the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles.
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E.
W
The W is a local New York City Subway service that runs on the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and Queens, typically operating on weekdays.
- 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: w1n5t0n Target entity description: w1n5t0n is the online handle of Marcus Yallow, the teenage hacker and civil liberties activist who narrates Cory Doctorow’s novel "Little Brother."
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A.
WN
WN is the IATA airline designator used to identify Southwest Airlines in flight schedules, ticketing, and aviation operations.
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B.
WU
WU is a leading European university in Vienna specializing in economics, business, and social sciences.
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C.
TON
TON is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing the Kingdom of Tonga.
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D.
W
W is one of the iconic white capital letters that make up the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Los Angeles.
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E.
W
The W is a local New York City Subway service that runs on the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan and Queens, typically operating on weekdays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
online handle ⓘ |
| ageInWork | teenager in Little Brother ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Little Brother ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
Little Brother series
ⓘ
linked to:
Little Brother
|
| basedIn | San Francisco ⓘ |
| characterInGenre | techno-thriller ⓘ |
| creator | Cory Doctorow ⓘ |
| familyName | Yallow ⓘ |
| genre | young adult fiction character ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcus ⓘ |
| hasInterest |
civil liberties
ⓘ
privacy rights ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
computer security
ⓘ
cryptography ⓘ social engineering ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | civil liberties activism ⓘ |
| occupation |
hacker
ⓘ
student ⓘ |
| opposes |
Department of Homeland Security overreach
ⓘ
mass surveillance ⓘ |
| realName | Marcus Yallow ⓘ |
| role | narrator of the novel Little Brother ⓘ |
| usedTechnology | Xbox-based console for hacking and communication ⓘ |
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: w1n5t0n Description of subject: w1n5t0n is the online handle of Marcus Yallow, the teenage hacker and civil liberties activist who narrates Cory Doctorow’s novel "Little Brother."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.