The Water Babies
E358982
The Water Babies is a 1978 British live-action/animated musical fantasy film adaptation of Charles Kingsley’s novel, in which Billie Whitelaw plays a prominent role.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Water Babies canonical | 2 |
| The Water Babies (1978 film) | 1 |
| The Water-Babies | 1 |
| The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3446899 — 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: The Water Babies Context triple: [Billie Whitelaw, notableWork, The Water Babies]
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A.
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a classic children's picture book featuring an anthropomorphic duck's misadventures, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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B.
Under the Willows
Under the Willows is a poem by James Russell Lowell that reflects on nature, memory, and the passage of time beneath willow trees.
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C.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a classic 1908 children’s novel by Kenneth Grahame that follows the adventures and friendships of anthropomorphic animals along an English riverbank.
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D.
Peter and Wendy
"Peter and Wendy" is J. M. Barrie’s 1911 novel that tells the classic story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, his adventures in Neverland, and his relationship with Wendy Darling and her brothers.
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E.
Elephant’s Child
Elephant’s Child is the curious young elephant protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Story who famously gets his long trunk after an encounter with a crocodile.
- 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: The Water Babies Target entity description: The Water Babies is a 1978 British live-action/animated musical fantasy film adaptation of Charles Kingsley’s novel, in which Billie Whitelaw plays a prominent role.
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A.
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a classic children's picture book featuring an anthropomorphic duck's misadventures, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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B.
Under the Willows
Under the Willows is a poem by James Russell Lowell that reflects on nature, memory, and the passage of time beneath willow trees.
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C.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a classic 1908 children’s novel by Kenneth Grahame that follows the adventures and friendships of anthropomorphic animals along an English riverbank.
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D.
Peter and Wendy
"Peter and Wendy" is J. M. Barrie’s 1911 novel that tells the classic story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, his adventures in Neverland, and his relationship with Wendy Darling and her brothers.
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E.
Elephant’s Child
Elephant’s Child is the curious young elephant protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Story who famously gets his long trunk after an encounter with a crocodile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: The Water Babies Description of subject: The Water Babies is a 1978 British live-action/animated musical fantasy film adaptation of Charles Kingsley’s novel, in which Billie Whitelaw plays a prominent role.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Water Babies
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The Water Babies
linked to: The Water Babies