Mr. Wednesday
E351734
Mr. Wednesday is a mysterious, charismatic con man who is actually the Norse god Odin in disguise in Neil Gaiman’s novel and its television adaptation American Gods.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Wednesday canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3353731 — 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: Mr. Wednesday Context triple: [Ian McShane, characterPortrayed, Mr. Wednesday]
-
A.
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is a prose work by Walt Whitman that blends memoir, nature writing, and reflections on the American Civil War and 19th-century life.
-
B.
The Given Day
The Given Day is a historical novel by Dennis Lehane set in post-World War I Boston, intertwining the lives of a working-class Irish-American family and an African-American ballplayer against a backdrop of social unrest and political upheaval.
-
C.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
-
D.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
-
E.
The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
- 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: Mr. Wednesday Target entity description: Mr. Wednesday is a mysterious, charismatic con man who is actually the Norse god Odin in disguise in Neil Gaiman’s novel and its television adaptation American Gods.
-
A.
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is a prose work by Walt Whitman that blends memoir, nature writing, and reflections on the American Civil War and 19th-century life.
-
B.
The Given Day
The Given Day is a historical novel by Dennis Lehane set in post-World War I Boston, intertwining the lives of a working-class Irish-American family and an African-American ballplayer against a backdrop of social unrest and political upheaval.
-
C.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
-
D.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
-
E.
The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
American Gods
ⓘ
American Gods (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
American Gods
|
| associatedWith | old gods ⓘ |
| basedOn | Odin ⓘ |
| characterIn |
novel American Gods
ⓘ
television series American Gods ⓘ
linked to:
American Gods
|
| createdBy | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| enemyOf | new gods ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
novel American Gods (2001)
ⓘ
linked to:
American Gods
|
| firstAppearanceInTelevision |
American Gods season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
American Gods
|
| hasAlias |
All-Father
ⓘ
linked to:
Odin
Odin ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | Shadow Moon ⓘ |
| hasDeityType | Norse god ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalOrigin | Norse mythology ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | con man ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
mysterious ⓘ |
| hasPower |
god of death
ⓘ
god of war ⓘ god of wisdom ⓘ |
| hasSpecies | deity ⓘ |
| hasSymbol |
gallows
ⓘ
ravens ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Mr. ⓘ |
| isDisguiseOf | Odin ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading a war against the new gods ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ian McShane ⓘ |
| recruits | Shadow Moon ⓘ |
| setInUniverse |
American Gods universe
ⓘ
linked to:
American Gods
|
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Mr. Wednesday Description of subject: Mr. Wednesday is a mysterious, charismatic con man who is actually the Norse god Odin in disguise in Neil Gaiman’s novel and its television adaptation American Gods.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.