Maggie (Tam's horse)
E651816
Maggie is the loyal and long-suffering mare who carries Tam through his drunken, supernatural adventure in Robert Burns’s narrative poem "Tam o’ Shanter."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maggie (Tam's horse) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7245960 — 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: Maggie (Tam's horse) Context triple: [Tam o' Shanter, featuresCharacter, Maggie (Tam's horse)]
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A.
Maggie
Maggie is a common diminutive form of the given name Margaret, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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B.
Maggie
Maggie is a character portrayed by Australian actress Robin McLeavy, best known from the horror film "The Loved Ones."
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C.
Maggie
Maggie is a central character in the 1992 British ensemble comedy-drama film "Peter’s Friends," which follows a group of Cambridge university friends reuniting after a decade.
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D.
Maggie
Maggie is a 1928 comic novel by W. Somerset Maugham that explores themes of love, social class, and personal compromise.
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E.
Marly Horses
Marly Horses is a famous pair of dynamic marble sculptures depicting rearing horses and their handlers, created in the 18th century by French sculptor Guillaume Coustou the Elder.
- 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: Maggie (Tam's horse) Target entity description: Maggie is the loyal and long-suffering mare who carries Tam through his drunken, supernatural adventure in Robert Burns’s narrative poem "Tam o’ Shanter."
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A.
Maggie
Maggie is a common diminutive form of the given name Margaret, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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B.
Maggie
Maggie is a character portrayed by Australian actress Robin McLeavy, best known from the horror film "The Loved Ones."
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C.
Maggie
Maggie is a central character in the 1992 British ensemble comedy-drama film "Peter’s Friends," which follows a group of Cambridge university friends reuniting after a decade.
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D.
Maggie
Maggie is a 1928 comic novel by W. Somerset Maugham that explores themes of love, social class, and personal compromise.
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E.
Marly Horses
Marly Horses is a famous pair of dynamic marble sculptures depicting rearing horses and their handlers, created in the 18th century by French sculptor Guillaume Coustou the Elder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional horse
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ mare ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Tam o’ Shanter
ⓘ
linked to:
Tam o' Shanter
|
| associatedPlace |
Alloway Kirk
ⓘ
linked to:
Alloway Auld Kirk
Ayrshire ⓘ |
| bodyPartInjury | tail torn off ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
brave
ⓘ
long-suffering ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | iconic animal figure in Scottish literature ⓘ |
| depictedAs | small but sturdy farm horse ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1791 ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Scots ⓘ |
| literaryWorkType | narrative poem ⓘ |
| moralIllustration | shows that loyalty can save a reckless master ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
comic foil to Tam’s drunkenness
ⓘ
symbol of steadfast loyalty ⓘ |
| nationalityOfWorkContext | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
carries Tam during his drunken ride
ⓘ
flees from witches and warlocks at Alloway Kirk ⓘ loses her tail while escaping supernatural pursuers ⓘ |
| owner |
Tam o’ Shanter
ⓘ
linked to:
Tam o' Shanter
|
| relationship | companion of Tam o’ Shanter ⓘ |
| role | Tam o’ Shanter’s horse ⓘ |
| settingOfAppearance | rural Scotland ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| species | horse ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
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: Maggie (Tam's horse) Description of subject: Maggie is the loyal and long-suffering mare who carries Tam through his drunken, supernatural adventure in Robert Burns’s narrative poem "Tam o’ Shanter."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.