Penrod
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Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penrod canonical | 2 |
| Penrod stories | 2 |
| Penrod (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4880206 — 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: Penrod Context triple: [Booth Tarkington, notableWork, Penrod]
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A.
Railroad Boy
"Railroad Boy" is a traditional folk ballad interpreted and popularized by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
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B.
The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
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C.
The Little American
The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
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D.
The Cub
The Cub is a costumed tiger cub character that serves as one of Clemson University’s athletic mascots, often appearing alongside The Tiger at sporting events and campus activities.
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E.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
- 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: Penrod Target entity description: Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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A.
Railroad Boy
"Railroad Boy" is a traditional folk ballad interpreted and popularized by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
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B.
The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
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C.
The Little American
The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
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D.
The Cub
The Cub is a costumed tiger cub character that serves as one of Clemson University’s athletic mascots, often appearing alongside The Tiger at sporting events and campus activities.
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E.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American children's literature work
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children's novel ⓘ humorous novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Booth Tarkington ⓘ |
| considered | classic of American children's literature ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts | Midwestern small-town life ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | book ⓘ |
| follows | mischievous adventures of a young boy ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
coming-of-age fiction ⓘ humor ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
Penrod Jashber
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linked to:
Penrod Schofield
Penrod and Sam ⓘ
linked to:
Penrod and Sam (1937 film)
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Penrod Schofield ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| protagonistAge | 11 years old ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1914 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Doubleday, Page & Company
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linked to:
Doubleday
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| settingLocation | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
young adults ⓘ |
| themes |
childhood
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growing up ⓘ middle-class American life ⓘ mischief ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Penrod Description of subject: Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Penrod
linked to: Penrod
linked to: Penrod