Jedediah Cleishbotham
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Jedediah Cleishbotham is a fictional schoolmaster and parish clerk created by Sir Walter Scott to serve as the supposed editor and narrator of the novel "Old Mortality."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jedediah Cleishbotham canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8767308 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jedediah Cleishbotham Context triple: [Old Mortality, narrativeFrameAuthor, Jedediah Cleishbotham]
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A.
Jedediah
Jedediah is a miniature cowboy figure who comes to life and provides comic relief and adventurous chaos in the "Night at the Museum" film series.
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B.
Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Purdy is an American legal scholar and writer known for his work on democracy, environmental politics, and political economy.
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C.
Jedediah Leland
Jedediah Leland is a key supporting character in the film "Citizen Kane," serving as Charles Foster Kane’s longtime friend and moral conscience who ultimately critiques Kane’s corruption and lost ideals.
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D.
Jabez Stone
Jabez Stone is the New Hampshire farmer in Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" who famously sells his soul to the Devil and later fights to win it back.
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E.
Jebediah
Jebediah is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, often associated with rustic or old-fashioned American usage and commonly shortened to "Jeb."
- 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: Jedediah Cleishbotham Target entity description: Jedediah Cleishbotham is a fictional schoolmaster and parish clerk created by Sir Walter Scott to serve as the supposed editor and narrator of the novel "Old Mortality."
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A.
Jedediah
Jedediah is a miniature cowboy figure who comes to life and provides comic relief and adventurous chaos in the "Night at the Museum" film series.
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B.
Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Purdy is an American legal scholar and writer known for his work on democracy, environmental politics, and political economy.
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C.
Jedediah Leland
Jedediah Leland is a key supporting character in the film "Citizen Kane," serving as Charles Foster Kane’s longtime friend and moral conscience who ultimately critiques Kane’s corruption and lost ideals.
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D.
Jabez Stone
Jabez Stone is the New Hampshire farmer in Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" who famously sells his soul to the Devil and later fights to win it back.
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E.
Jebediah
Jebediah is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, often associated with rustic or old-fashioned American usage and commonly shortened to "Jeb."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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frame narrator ⓘ literary character ⓘ pseudonymous editor ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Old Mortality ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Tales of My Landlord ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Sir Walter Scott ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Scotland (fictional setting)
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linked to:
Scotland
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| createdBy | Sir Walter Scott ⓘ |
| creator |
Walter Scott
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linked to:
Sir Walter Scott
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| describedAs | schoolmaster and parish clerk of Gandercleugh (in Scott’s fiction) ⓘ |
| editorialPersonaOf | Sir Walter Scott ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Old Mortality (1816)
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linked to:
Old Mortality
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
frame the narrative of Old Mortality
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mediate between author and reader ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
supposed editor
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supposed narrator ⓘ |
| occupation |
parish clerk
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schoolmaster ⓘ |
| settingRole | connected to a Scottish parish ⓘ |
| usedAs | narrative device ⓘ |
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: Jedediah Cleishbotham Description of subject: Jedediah Cleishbotham is a fictional schoolmaster and parish clerk created by Sir Walter Scott to serve as the supposed editor and narrator of the novel "Old Mortality."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.