Jolu
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Jolu is a character in Cory Doctorow's novel "Little Brother," known as one of Marcus Yallow's close friends and fellow teenage hackers resisting government surveillance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jolu canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6910110 — 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: Jolu Context triple: [Marcus Yallow, hasFriend, Jolu]
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A.
Mandinka
Mandinka is a major Mande language spoken primarily in The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and neighboring West African countries by the Mandinka people.
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B.
Ngola
Ngola is an alternative name for the Angolar people, a community of African descent primarily associated with São Tomé and Príncipe.
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C.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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D.
Jirapa
Jirapa is a town in Ghana that serves as a local administrative and commercial center in the country’s Upper West Region.
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E.
Odogbolu
Odogbolu is a town and local government area in Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria, historically under the traditional authority of the Awujale of Ijebu.
- 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: Jolu Target entity description: Jolu is a character in Cory Doctorow's novel "Little Brother," known as one of Marcus Yallow's close friends and fellow teenage hackers resisting government surveillance.
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A.
Mandinka
Mandinka is a major Mande language spoken primarily in The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and neighboring West African countries by the Mandinka people.
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B.
Ngola
Ngola is an alternative name for the Angolar people, a community of African descent primarily associated with São Tomé and Príncipe.
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C.
Njuká
Njuká is an alternative name for the Ndyuka language, a creole spoken primarily by the Ndyuka Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.
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D.
Jirapa
Jirapa is a town in Ghana that serves as a local administrative and commercial center in the country’s Upper West Region.
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E.
Odogbolu
Odogbolu is a town and local government area in Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria, historically under the traditional authority of the Awujale of Ijebu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Little Brother ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
science fiction
ⓘ
young adult fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Cory Doctorow ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Xnet
ⓘ
resistance to government surveillance ⓘ teenage hackers ⓘ |
| closeFriendOf |
Darryl Glover
ⓘ
Marcus Yallow ⓘ Vanessa Pak ⓘ |
| createdBy | Cory Doctorow ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Latino ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Little Brother ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goesToSchoolWith | Marcus Yallow ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Marcus Yallow ⓘ |
| hasRole | supporting character in Little Brother ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
computer hacking
ⓘ
cryptography ⓘ programming ⓘ |
| inUniverseAge | teenager ⓘ |
| language | English (dialogue) ⓘ |
| livesIn | San Francisco ⓘ |
| memberOf | Marcus Yallow's friend group ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| opposes |
Department of Homeland Security surveillance
ⓘ
suspension of civil liberties ⓘ |
| participatesIn | resistance against DHS surveillance in San Francisco ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | civil liberties activist ⓘ |
| setIn | post-terrorist-attack San Francisco ⓘ |
| supports |
freedom of expression
ⓘ
privacy rights ⓘ |
| usesTechnology | Xnet ⓘ |
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: Jolu Description of subject: Jolu is a character in Cory Doctorow's novel "Little Brother," known as one of Marcus Yallow's close friends and fellow teenage hackers resisting government surveillance.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.