the Corporal
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The Corporal is the central figure in the fable "A Fable," likely serving as a moral or symbolic character whose actions drive the story’s lesson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| the Corporal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5532346 — 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 Corporal Context triple: [A Fable, hasMainCharacter, the Corporal]
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A.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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B.
The Colonel
The Colonel is the traditional mascot figure representing Eastern Kentucky University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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C.
The Corps
The Corps is the student military-style leadership organization at Texas A&M University known for its traditions, discipline, and role in campus life.
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D.
The Soldier
The Soldier is a famous World War I sonnet by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealistically reflects on patriotism, sacrifice, and the notion of an English soldier’s death abroad.
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E.
Two Soldiers
"Two Soldiers" is a traditional American folk ballad about brothers going off to war, notably popularized by Bob Dylan’s recording on his 1993 album *World Gone Wrong*.
- 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 Corporal Target entity description: The Corporal is the central figure in the fable "A Fable," likely serving as a moral or symbolic character whose actions drive the story’s lesson.
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A.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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B.
The Colonel
The Colonel is the traditional mascot figure representing Eastern Kentucky University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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C.
The Corps
The Corps is the student military-style leadership organization at Texas A&M University known for its traditions, discipline, and role in campus life.
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D.
The Soldier
The Soldier is a famous World War I sonnet by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealistically reflects on patriotism, sacrifice, and the notion of an English soldier’s death abroad.
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E.
Two Soldiers
"Two Soldiers" is a traditional American folk ballad about brothers going off to war, notably popularized by Bob Dylan’s recording on his 1993 album *World Gone Wrong*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
"A Fable"
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linked to:
A Fable
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| associatedWith |
moral themes
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symbolism ⓘ |
| characterType | military rank ⓘ |
| drives |
plot
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story’s lesson ⓘ |
| gender | male (implied by title) ⓘ |
| hasRole |
moral agent
ⓘ
symbolic character ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
central figure
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protagonist ⓘ |
| roleIn | fable ⓘ |
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 Corporal Description of subject: The Corporal is the central figure in the fable "A Fable," likely serving as a moral or symbolic character whose actions drive the story’s lesson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.