Peter the goatherd
E413081
Peter the goatherd is a young Swiss boy who tends goats in the Alps and serves as Heidi’s close friend and companion in Johanna Spyri’s classic novel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter the goatherd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4091089 — 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: Peter the goatherd Context triple: [Heidi, character, Peter the goatherd]
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A.
Gompei the Goat
Gompei the Goat is the long-standing and iconic goat mascot of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, symbolizing the school’s engineering spirit and traditions.
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B.
Hugh the Drover
Hugh the Drover is an early 20th-century English opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams that blends folk-song elements with a romantic tale set in rural England.
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C.
Gerasim
Gerasim is the compassionate peasant servant in Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," known for his honesty, simplicity, and humane care for the dying protagonist.
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D.
Bill the Goat
Bill the Goat is the long-standing and beloved live mascot of the United States Naval Academy’s athletic teams.
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E.
Lämmerhirt
Lämmerhirt is a German surname most notably borne by Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
- 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: Peter the goatherd Target entity description: Peter the goatherd is a young Swiss boy who tends goats in the Alps and serves as Heidi’s close friend and companion in Johanna Spyri’s classic novel.
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A.
Gompei the Goat
Gompei the Goat is the long-standing and iconic goat mascot of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, symbolizing the school’s engineering spirit and traditions.
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B.
Hugh the Drover
Hugh the Drover is an early 20th-century English opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams that blends folk-song elements with a romantic tale set in rural England.
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C.
Gerasim
Gerasim is the compassionate peasant servant in Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," known for his honesty, simplicity, and humane care for the dying protagonist.
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D.
Bill the Goat
Bill the Goat is the long-standing and beloved live mascot of the United States Naval Academy’s athletic teams.
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E.
Lämmerhirt
Lämmerhirt is a German surname most notably borne by Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ goatherd ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | child ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Heidi
ⓘ
Heidi (1881 novel) ⓘ
linked to:
Heidi
|
| associatedWith |
Alm-Uncle
ⓘ
Klara Sesemann ⓘ |
| basedIn | rural Switzerland ⓘ |
| closeCompanionOf | Heidi ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| createdBy | Johanna Spyri ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | Swiss children's classic ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Heidi ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Peter ⓘ |
| hasRelationship | friend of Heidi ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | children's literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | Swiss ⓘ |
| occupation | goatherd ⓘ |
| residence |
Dörfli
ⓘ
Swiss Alps ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character in Heidi ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Alps ⓘ |
| tends | goats ⓘ |
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: Peter the goatherd Description of subject: Peter the goatherd is a young Swiss boy who tends goats in the Alps and serves as Heidi’s close friend and companion in Johanna Spyri’s classic novel.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.