Boy on Defence
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"Boy on Defence" is a classic Canadian young adult sports novel by Scott Young that follows a teenage hockey player facing personal and athletic challenges.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boy on Defence canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5816173 — 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: Boy on Defence Context triple: [Scott Young, notableWork, Boy on Defence]
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A.
Offside
Offside is a 2006 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Jafar Panahi that follows a group of young women who disguise themselves as men to sneak into a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Tehran, highlighting gender discrimination in Iran.
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B.
This Boy
"This Boy" is a memoir by British politician Alan Johnson that recounts his impoverished childhood in post-war London.
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C.
The Corner Kick
The Corner Kick is a method of restarting play in association football, awarded to the attacking team when the ball crosses the goal line last touched by a defender without resulting in a goal.
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D.
Guardians of the Game
Guardians of the Game is the guiding motto of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, emphasizing coaches’ responsibility to uphold the integrity, values, and positive impact of basketball.
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E.
Going to the Match
"Going to the Match" is a famous painting by English artist L. S. Lowry depicting crowds of football supporters heading toward a stadium in his distinctive industrial, matchstick-figure style.
- 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: Boy on Defence Target entity description: "Boy on Defence" is a classic Canadian young adult sports novel by Scott Young that follows a teenage hockey player facing personal and athletic challenges.
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A.
Offside
Offside is a 2006 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Jafar Panahi that follows a group of young women who disguise themselves as men to sneak into a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Tehran, highlighting gender discrimination in Iran.
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B.
This Boy
"This Boy" is a memoir by British politician Alan Johnson that recounts his impoverished childhood in post-war London.
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C.
The Corner Kick
The Corner Kick is a method of restarting play in association football, awarded to the attacking team when the ball crosses the goal line last touched by a defender without resulting in a goal.
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D.
Guardians of the Game
Guardians of the Game is the guiding motto of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, emphasizing coaches’ responsibility to uphold the integrity, values, and positive impact of basketball.
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E.
Going to the Match
"Going to the Match" is a famous painting by English artist L. S. Lowry depicting crowds of football supporters heading toward a stadium in his distinctive industrial, matchstick-figure style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ice hockey novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Scott Young ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| follows | teenage hockey player ⓘ |
| genre |
hockey fiction
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sports fiction ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| hasMedium | print ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
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identity ⓘ perseverance ⓘ personal growth ⓘ pressure in competitive sports ⓘ sportsmanship ⓘ teamwork ⓘ |
| literarySetting | Canada ⓘ |
| mainSportDepicted | ice hockey ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
athletic challenges
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personal challenges ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of youth ice hockey in Canada ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Canadian young adult literature ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
teenagers
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young adults ⓘ |
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: Boy on Defence Description of subject: "Boy on Defence" is a classic Canadian young adult sports novel by Scott Young that follows a teenage hockey player facing personal and athletic challenges.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.