the cotter
E651821
The cotter is the humble Scottish peasant father who serves as the pious, hardworking central figure in Robert Burns’s poem "The Cotter’s Saturday Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| the cotter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7246148 — 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 cotter Context triple: [The Cotter's Saturday Night, hasCharacter, the cotter]
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A.
The Wedge
The Wedge is a famous surf spot in Newport Beach, California, known for its powerful, shore-breaking waves that attract experienced bodyboarders and surfers.
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B.
The Coathanger
The Coathanger is the iconic steel arch bridge spanning Sydney Harbour, renowned as a symbol of Sydney and Australia.
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C.
Corkscrew
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure known for its signature double-inversion corkscrew elements.
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D.
The Contractor
The Contractor is an action-thriller film starring Ben Foster as a discharged Special Forces sergeant who joins a private military operation that quickly goes wrong.
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E.
The Cord
The Cord is the student-run newspaper serving the Wilfrid Laurier University community with campus news, commentary, and features.
- 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 cotter Target entity description: The cotter is the humble Scottish peasant father who serves as the pious, hardworking central figure in Robert Burns’s poem "The Cotter’s Saturday Night."
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A.
The Wedge
The Wedge is a famous surf spot in Newport Beach, California, known for its powerful, shore-breaking waves that attract experienced bodyboarders and surfers.
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B.
The Coathanger
The Coathanger is the iconic steel arch bridge spanning Sydney Harbour, renowned as a symbol of Sydney and Australia.
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C.
Corkscrew
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure known for its signature double-inversion corkscrew elements.
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D.
The Contractor
The Contractor is an action-thriller film starring Ben Foster as a discharged Special Forces sergeant who joins a private military operation that quickly goes wrong.
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E.
The Cord
The Cord is the student-run newspaper serving the Wilfrid Laurier University community with campus news, commentary, and features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish peasant
ⓘ
father ⓘ fictional person ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
ⓘ
linked to:
The Cotter's Saturday Night
|
| associatedWith |
Presbyterian family worship
ⓘ
domestic piety ⓘ rural Scottish life ⓘ |
| caresFor | his family ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
hardworking
ⓘ
humble ⓘ pious ⓘ |
| createdBy | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| culturalRole | idealized Scottish peasant father figure ⓘ |
| describedIn | narrative poem ⓘ |
| familyRole | father ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| homeSetting | modest rural cottage ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Scots ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Scottish Enlightenment context ⓘ |
| moralFunctionInWork | exemplar of Christian family life ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| performs | family worship ⓘ |
| religion | Christian ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central figure ⓘ |
| socialClass | peasant ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
domestic piety
ⓘ
moral integrity ⓘ religious devotion ⓘ rural virtue ⓘ the ideal Christian household head ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | 18th-century Scotland ⓘ |
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 cotter Description of subject: The cotter is the humble Scottish peasant father who serves as the pious, hardworking central figure in Robert Burns’s poem "The Cotter’s Saturday Night."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.