the tailor of Gloucester
E510288
The tailor of Gloucester is the humble, hardworking protagonist of Beatrix Potter’s children’s story, whose skill and kindness are rewarded by helpful mice who finish an important sewing commission for him.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| the tailor of Gloucester canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5312059 — 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: the tailor of Gloucester Context triple: [The Tailor of Gloucester, mainCharacter, the tailor of Gloucester]
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A.
Squire Gresham
Squire Gresham is a country landowner character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Doctor Thorne," known for his declining estate and social ambitions.
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B.
William Cornysh
William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
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C.
Mr. Furnival
Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
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D.
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is a famously comic, roguish knight from Shakespeare’s history plays, known for his wit, cowardice, and love of drink and mischief.
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E.
Stow Bardolph
Stow Bardolph is a rural village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, known for its historic church, country estate, and traditional English countryside setting.
- 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: the tailor of Gloucester Target entity description: The tailor of Gloucester is the humble, hardworking protagonist of Beatrix Potter’s children’s story, whose skill and kindness are rewarded by helpful mice who finish an important sewing commission for him.
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A.
Squire Gresham
Squire Gresham is a country landowner character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Doctor Thorne," known for his declining estate and social ambitions.
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B.
William Cornysh
William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
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C.
Mr. Furnival
Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
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D.
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is a famously comic, roguish knight from Shakespeare’s history plays, known for his wit, cowardice, and love of drink and mischief.
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E.
Stow Bardolph
Stow Bardolph is a rural village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, known for its historic church, country estate, and traditional English countryside setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Tailor of Gloucester (book)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Tailor of Gloucester
|
| basedOn | a real Gloucester tailor (tradition) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
hardworking
ⓘ
humble ⓘ kind ⓘ skilled ⓘ |
| creator | Beatrix Potter ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Tailor of Gloucester (1903 book)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Tailor of Gloucester
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAnimalHelper | mice ⓘ |
| knownFor | making a waistcoat for the Mayor of Gloucester ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | children’s literature ⓘ |
| moralRole | example of generosity being rewarded ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | tailor ⓘ |
| plotInvolvement |
falls ill before finishing the Mayor’s wedding waistcoat
ⓘ
has his work completed by grateful mice ⓘ |
| relationship | kind to mice ⓘ |
| residence |
Gloucester, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Gloucester
|
| settingOfLife | 18th-century Gloucester ⓘ |
| skill |
embroidery
ⓘ
sewing ⓘ tailoring ⓘ |
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: the tailor of Gloucester Description of subject: The tailor of Gloucester is the humble, hardworking protagonist of Beatrix Potter’s children’s story, whose skill and kindness are rewarded by helpful mice who finish an important sewing commission for him.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.