Cottontail
E510285
Cottontail is one of Peter Rabbit’s younger sisters in Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s stories, known for her timid and well-behaved nature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cottontail canonical | 10 |
| Cottontail Rabbit | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5312019 — 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: Cottontail Context triple: [The Tale of Peter Rabbit, character, Cottontail]
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A.
Lepus
Lepus is a small southern constellation located just below Orion, traditionally representing a hare.
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B.
Lepus
Lepus is a genus of fast-running mammals commonly known as hares and jackrabbits, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
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C.
black-tailed jackrabbit
The black-tailed jackrabbit is a large North American hare known for its long ears, powerful hind legs, and adaptation to arid and semi-arid habitats.
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D.
Rabbit
Rabbit is a famous stainless-steel sculpture by Jeff Koons, celebrated as an iconic work of contemporary pop and conceptual art.
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E.
Rabbit
Rabbit is a fussy, practical, and often bossy animal character from A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, known for trying to keep order in the Hundred Acre Wood.
- 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: Cottontail Target entity description: Cottontail is one of Peter Rabbit’s younger sisters in Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s stories, known for her timid and well-behaved nature.
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A.
Lepus
Lepus is a small southern constellation located just below Orion, traditionally representing a hare.
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B.
Lepus
Lepus is a genus of fast-running mammals commonly known as hares and jackrabbits, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
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C.
black-tailed jackrabbit
The black-tailed jackrabbit is a large North American hare known for its long ears, powerful hind legs, and adaptation to arid and semi-arid habitats.
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D.
Rabbit
Rabbit is a famous stainless-steel sculpture by Jeff Koons, celebrated as an iconic work of contemporary pop and conceptual art.
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E.
Rabbit
Rabbit is a fussy, practical, and often bossy animal character from A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, known for trying to keep order in the Hundred Acre Wood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children’s literature character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ rabbit ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
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The Tale of Mr. Tod ⓘ The Tale of Peter Rabbit ⓘ The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Tale of Peter Rabbit ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
timid
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well-behaved ⓘ |
| childOf | Mrs. Rabbit ⓘ |
| creator | Beatrix Potter ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Benjamin Bunny ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | children’s literature ⓘ |
| nationality | British (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit stories
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linked to:
Beatrix Potter's little books
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| publisherOfWork |
Frederick Warne & Co. (for original books)
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linked to:
Frederick Warne & Co.
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| setting | English countryside ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Flopsy
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Mopsy ⓘ Peter Rabbit ⓘ |
| species | rabbit ⓘ |
| universe | Peter Rabbit series ⓘ |
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: Cottontail Description of subject: Cottontail is one of Peter Rabbit’s younger sisters in Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s stories, known for her timid and well-behaved nature.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cottontail
linked to: Cottontail
linked to: Cottontail