Tiny Soderball
E437380
Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tiny Soderball canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423412 — 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: Tiny Soderball Context triple: [My Ántonia, character, Tiny Soderball]
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A.
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb was an early experimental American steam locomotive built in 1830 that demonstrated the viability of steam power for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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B.
Tiny Ross
Tiny Ross was a British actor and dwarf performer best known for his role as one of the time-traveling dwarfs in Terry Gilliam’s fantasy film "Time Bandits."
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C.
The Little People
"The Little People" is a 1962 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone in which an arrogant astronaut declares himself a god over a civilization of tiny aliens, only to face a twist of cosmic irony.
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D.
Little Giant
"Little Giant" was the famous nickname of Stephen A. Douglas, a prominent 19th-century American politician known for his influential role in pre–Civil War debates and legislation.
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E.
The Little Giant
"The Little Giant" is a 1926 silent comedy film starring Colleen Moore, known for its lighthearted story and showcasing the flapper-era charm that made her a major star of the time.
- 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: Tiny Soderball Target entity description: Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
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A.
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb was an early experimental American steam locomotive built in 1830 that demonstrated the viability of steam power for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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B.
Tiny Ross
Tiny Ross was a British actor and dwarf performer best known for his role as one of the time-traveling dwarfs in Terry Gilliam’s fantasy film "Time Bandits."
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C.
The Little People
"The Little People" is a 1962 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone in which an arrogant astronaut declares himself a god over a civilization of tiny aliens, only to face a twist of cosmic irony.
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D.
Little Giant
"Little Giant" was the famous nickname of Stephen A. Douglas, a prominent 19th-century American politician known for his influential role in pre–Civil War debates and legislation.
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E.
The Little Giant
"The Little Giant" is a 1926 silent comedy film starring Colleen Moore, known for its lighthearted story and showcasing the flapper-era charm that made her a major star of the time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | My Ántonia ⓘ |
| appearsInLiteraryUniverse | My Ántonia universe ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
economic ambition
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frontier life ⓘ immigration ⓘ social mobility ⓘ women’s work ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
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practical ⓘ |
| creator | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeArc | rises from hired help to financial success ⓘ |
| nationality | immigrant ⓘ |
| occupation |
domestic servant
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hired girl ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor character ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
American West
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linked to:
Old West
Western frontier era ⓘ |
| socialStatusAtIntroduction | hired help ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| workGenre |
novel
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pioneer fiction ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1918 ⓘ |
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: Tiny Soderball Description of subject: Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.