Totó
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Totó is a young boy who serves as one of the central child protagonists in Gabriel García Márquez’s short story "Light Is Like Water."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Totó canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5044733 — 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: Totó Context triple: [Light Is Like Water, mainCharacters, Totó]
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A.
Totó
Totó is a neighborhood located in the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
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B.
Pepa
Pepa is a traditional Assamese wind instrument, typically made from buffalo horn, used in folk and Bihu music.
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C.
Pepa
Pepa is the stage name of Sandra Denton, a rapper best known as one-third of the pioneering hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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D.
Alfrédo
Alfrédo is a given name, likely a variant or cognate of "Alfred" or "Alfredo," used as a personal male first name in various languages.
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E.
Ernesto
Ernesto is a masculine given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries.
- 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: Totó Target entity description: Totó is a young boy who serves as one of the central child protagonists in Gabriel García Márquez’s short story "Light Is Like Water."
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A.
Totó
Totó is a neighborhood located in the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
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B.
Pepa
Pepa is a traditional Assamese wind instrument, typically made from buffalo horn, used in folk and Bihu music.
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C.
Pepa
Pepa is the stage name of Sandra Denton, a rapper best known as one-third of the pioneering hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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D.
Alfrédo
Alfrédo is a given name, likely a variant or cognate of "Alfred" or "Alfredo," used as a personal male first name in various languages.
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E.
Ernesto
Ernesto is a masculine given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| activity | sails in light as if it were water ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Doce cuentos peregrinos
ⓘ
Light Is Like Water ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Colombian ⓘ |
| causeOfDeathInStory | drowns in light ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Colombia ⓘ |
| creator | Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ |
| deathInStory | yes ⓘ |
| educationContext | school-age child ⓘ |
| familyName | not specified in the story ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Light Is Like Water ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCollection | Doce cuentos peregrinos ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| includedInGenre | Latin American literature ⓘ |
| languageOfFictionalWork | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyleContext | magic realist short fiction ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central child protagonist
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protagonist ⓘ |
| objectOfUse |
broken lamp
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nautical equipment ⓘ rowboat ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | Cartagena, Colombia ⓘ |
| plotEvent |
asks parents for a rowboat in Madrid
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breaks apartment lamps to let light flow ⓘ navigates through apartment in light ⓘ |
| relationshipToParents | son ⓘ |
| residence | Madrid ⓘ |
| settingOfMainActions | family apartment in Madrid ⓘ |
| sibling | Joel ⓘ |
| symbolicRole |
embodiment of childhood desire for adventure
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explorer of the boundary between reality and imagination ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
childhood imagination
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fantasy and reality ⓘ magic realism ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1992 ⓘ |
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: Totó Description of subject: Totó is a young boy who serves as one of the central child protagonists in Gabriel García Márquez’s short story "Light Is Like Water."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.