Quack the duckling
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Quack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quack the duckling canonical | 3 |
| Quack | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1441399 — 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: Quack the duckling Context triple: [Make Way for Ducklings sculpture, depicts, Quack the duckling]
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A.
Ouack the duckling
Ouack the duckling is one of the fictional duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings."
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B.
Mack the duckling
Mack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling figures in the famous "Make Way for Ducklings" public sculpture in Boston, inspired by the classic children's book of the same name.
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C.
Nack the duckling
Nack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling figures in Nancy Schön’s famous "Make Way for Ducklings" sculpture in Boston’s Public Garden, inspired by Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book.
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D.
Jack the duckling
Jack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
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E.
Ducks
Ducks is the nickname for the University of Oregon’s athletic teams, most prominently its college football program.
- 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: Quack the duckling Target entity description: Quack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
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A.
Ouack the duckling
Ouack the duckling is one of the fictional duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings."
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B.
Mack the duckling
Mack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling figures in the famous "Make Way for Ducklings" public sculpture in Boston, inspired by the classic children's book of the same name.
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C.
Nack the duckling
Nack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling figures in Nancy Schön’s famous "Make Way for Ducklings" sculpture in Boston’s Public Garden, inspired by Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book.
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D.
Jack the duckling
Jack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
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E.
Ducks
Ducks is the nickname for the University of Oregon’s athletic teams, most prominently its college football program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional duck character
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literary character ⓘ sculpture subject ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Make Way for Ducklings ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Make Way for Ducklings ⓘ |
| childOf |
Mr. Mallard
ⓘ
Mrs. Mallard ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Robert McCloskey ⓘ |
| depictedIn | bronze duckling sculpture in Boston Public Garden ⓘ |
| genre | children’s literature character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston Public Garden
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Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| mediumOfSculpture | bronze ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the named ducklings in Make Way for Ducklings
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being represented as a bronze duckling in Boston Public Garden ⓘ |
| partOf |
Make Way for Ducklings sculpture
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the duckling family in Make Way for Ducklings ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1941 ⓘ |
| settingOfSourceWork |
Boston
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Boston Public Garden ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Jack the duckling
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Kack the duckling ⓘ Lack the duckling ⓘ Mack the duckling ⓘ Nack the duckling ⓘ Ouack the duckling ⓘ Pack the duckling ⓘ |
| species | duck ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Quack the duckling Description of subject: Quack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Quack the duckling
subject linked to:
classic children’s book Make Way for Ducklings
linked to: Quack the duckling