ruby slippers
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The ruby slippers are the sparkling, magical shoes worn by Dorothy in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz," symbolizing her journey and the power to return home.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ruby slippers canonical | 3 |
| Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379846 — 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: ruby slippers Context triple: [The Wizard of Oz, hasIconicProp, ruby slippers]
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A.
Pale Hose
Pale Hose is a traditional nickname for the Chicago White Sox Major League Baseball team.
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B.
Garter
The Garter is a prestigious emblem associated with the Order of the Garter, one of the highest orders of chivalry in the United Kingdom, traditionally worn by royal knights and ladies.
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C.
Shompen
The Shompen are an isolated indigenous people of Great Nicobar Island, known for their semi-nomadic forest-based lifestyle and limited contact with the outside world.
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D.
Horseshoe
Horseshoe is a well-known casino and racetrack brand in the United States, recognized for its gambling, entertainment, and hospitality offerings.
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E.
Foot Guards
The Foot Guards are elite infantry regiments of the British Army renowned for their ceremonial duties guarding the monarch and royal residences, as well as their role as front-line soldiers.
- 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: ruby slippers Target entity description: The ruby slippers are the sparkling, magical shoes worn by Dorothy in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz," symbolizing her journey and the power to return home.
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A.
Pale Hose
Pale Hose is a traditional nickname for the Chicago White Sox Major League Baseball team.
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B.
Garter
The Garter is a prestigious emblem associated with the Order of the Garter, one of the highest orders of chivalry in the United Kingdom, traditionally worn by royal knights and ladies.
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C.
Shompen
The Shompen are an isolated indigenous people of Great Nicobar Island, known for their semi-nomadic forest-based lifestyle and limited contact with the outside world.
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D.
Horseshoe
Horseshoe is a well-known casino and racetrack brand in the United States, recognized for its gambling, entertainment, and hospitality offerings.
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E.
Foot Guards
The Foot Guards are elite infantry regiments of the British Army renowned for their ceremonial duties guarding the monarch and royal residences, as well as their role as front-line soldiers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional object
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film prop ⓘ footwear ⓘ magical object ⓘ |
| activationMethod | clicking heels together three times ⓘ |
| associatedWithFranchise |
The Wizard of Oz franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wizard of Oz
|
| associatedWithPhrase | There’s no place like home ⓘ |
| auctionRecord | among the most valuable film props ever sold ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | L. Frank Baum ⓘ |
| basedOn | silver shoes ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900 novel)
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linked to:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
|
| color | red ⓘ |
| colorChangedFor |
Technicolor cinematography
ⓘ
linked to:
Technicolor
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor |
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film production)
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linked to:
The Wizard of Oz
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| culturalStatus |
iconic symbol of American pop culture
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iconic symbol of classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| designedBy | Gilbert Adrian ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History ⓘ
linked to:
National Museum of American History
|
| featuredInGenre | fantasy film ⓘ |
| featuredInMedium | motion picture ⓘ |
| filmStudio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInWork |
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wizard of Oz
|
| functionInStory | enable travel to and from the Land of Oz ⓘ |
| influenced | later depictions of magical shoes in popular culture ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| material |
felt
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leather ⓘ sequins ⓘ |
| notableTheft | 2005 theft from Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota ⓘ |
| numberOfPairsMade | multiple pairs ⓘ |
| originalColorInNovel | silver ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Smithsonian Institution (one pair)
ⓘ
linked to:
Smithsonian Institution
|
| portrayedByActor | Judy Garland ⓘ |
| recoveredIn | 2018 (pair stolen from Judy Garland Museum) ⓘ |
| setInFictionalWorld | Land of Oz ⓘ |
| spokenIncantation | There’s no place like home ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
collecting and memorabilia culture
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museum exhibitions ⓘ theft and recovery cases ⓘ |
| symbolism |
American dream of home
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power to return home ⓘ self-reliance ⓘ |
| usedFor |
close-up shots
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dance sequences ⓘ walking scenes ⓘ |
| wornByCharacter |
Dorothy Gale
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linked to:
Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz
|
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: ruby slippers Description of subject: The ruby slippers are the sparkling, magical shoes worn by Dorothy in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz," symbolizing her journey and the power to return home.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.