Joe Coppock
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Joe Coppock is the young, solitary boy protagonist of Alan Garner’s novel "Treacle Walker," whose encounters with the mysterious Treacle Walker blur the boundaries between reality, myth, and time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe Coppock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8130349 — 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: Joe Coppock Context triple: [Treacle Walker, mainCharacter, Joe Coppock]
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A.
Kevin Copeland
Kevin Copeland is one of the undercover FBI agent brothers in the comedy film "White Chicks," known for disguising themselves as wealthy white socialites.
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B.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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C.
Gil Westrum
Gil Westrum is a central character in the 1962 Western film "Ride the High Country," portrayed as an aging former lawman whose moral ambiguity contrasts with his partner’s steadfast integrity.
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D.
Ted Daughety
Ted Daughety is an American physician and pulmonologist best known as the husband of Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.
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E.
Greg Cipes
Greg Cipes is an American voice actor and musician best known for voicing energetic, comedic characters in animated series such as Beast Boy in Teen Titans and Michelangelo in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- 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: Joe Coppock Target entity description: Joe Coppock is the young, solitary boy protagonist of Alan Garner’s novel "Treacle Walker," whose encounters with the mysterious Treacle Walker blur the boundaries between reality, myth, and time.
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A.
Kevin Copeland
Kevin Copeland is one of the undercover FBI agent brothers in the comedy film "White Chicks," known for disguising themselves as wealthy white socialites.
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B.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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C.
Gil Westrum
Gil Westrum is a central character in the 1962 Western film "Ride the High Country," portrayed as an aging former lawman whose moral ambiguity contrasts with his partner’s steadfast integrity.
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D.
Ted Daughety
Ted Daughety is an American physician and pulmonologist best known as the husband of Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.
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E.
Greg Cipes
Greg Cipes is an American voice actor and musician best known for voicing energetic, comedic characters in animated series such as Beast Boy in Teen Titans and Michelangelo in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel protagonist ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Treacle Walker ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Treacle Walker
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folklore ⓘ myth ⓘ time ⓘ vision ⓘ |
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| creator | Alan Garner ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Treacle Walker ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | rural England ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| meets | Treacle Walker ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | focalizer of the story ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
curious
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introspective ⓘ solitary ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
blurred boundaries between reality and myth
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blurred boundaries between reality and time ⓘ coming of age ⓘ isolation ⓘ perception and reality ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Alan Garner ⓘ |
| workGenre |
fantasy novel
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mythic fiction ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 2021 ⓘ |
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: Joe Coppock Description of subject: Joe Coppock is the young, solitary boy protagonist of Alan Garner’s novel "Treacle Walker," whose encounters with the mysterious Treacle Walker blur the boundaries between reality, myth, and time.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.