his auld mare Maggie
E651839
His auld mare Maggie is the old, faithful workhorse affectionately addressed by the speaker in Robert Burns’s poem “The Auld Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| his auld mare Maggie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7247066 — 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: his auld mare Maggie Context triple: [The Auld Farmer's New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie, addressee, his auld mare Maggie]
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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.
The Maggie
The Maggie is a 1954 British comedy film about a wily Scottish boat captain, produced by Ealing Studios and noted for its gentle humor and character-driven storytelling.
- 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: his auld mare Maggie Target entity description: His auld mare Maggie is the old, faithful workhorse affectionately addressed by the speaker in Robert Burns’s poem “The Auld Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie.”
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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.
The Maggie
The Maggie is a 1954 British comedy film about a wily Scottish boat captain, produced by Ealing Studios and noted for its gentle humor and character-driven storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional horse
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literary character ⓘ |
| addressedAs |
Maggie
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auld mare ⓘ |
| addressedBy | the speaker of the poem ⓘ |
| ageDescriptor | old ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Auld Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland (literary setting) ⓘ |
| describedAs |
auld
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faithful ⓘ old, faithful workhorse ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional character created by Robert Burns ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 18th century Scottish literature ⓘ |
| medium | poetry ⓘ |
| name | Maggie ⓘ |
| relationshipToSpeaker |
farm horse
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long-time companion in farm work ⓘ |
| role | workhorse ⓘ |
| sex | mare ⓘ |
| species | horse ⓘ |
| themeInWork |
gratitude to animals
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loyalty and companionship ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| toneOfAddress | affectionate ⓘ |
| work | The Auld Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| workLanguage |
English (Scots-inflected)
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Scots ⓘ |
| workType | poem ⓘ |
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: his auld mare Maggie Description of subject: His auld mare Maggie is the old, faithful workhorse affectionately addressed by the speaker in Robert Burns’s poem “The Auld Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie.”
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Auld Farmer's New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie
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addressee
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his auld mare Maggie
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