Jedediah
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jedediah canonical | 10 |
| Jedidiah | 4 |
| Jebediah Nightlinger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T550904 — 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: Jedediah Context triple: [Night at the Museum, character, Jedediah]
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A.
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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B.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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C.
Obadiah Scott
Obadiah Scott was the brother of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and a member of the Scott family from rural Alabama.
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D.
Jesse Fell
Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
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E.
Jared
Jared is the given name of Jared Diamond, an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
- 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 Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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C.
Obadiah Scott
Obadiah Scott was the brother of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and a member of the Scott family from rural Alabama.
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D.
Jesse Fell
Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
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E.
Jared
Jared is the given name of Jared Diamond, an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ toy cowboy ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Night at the Museum
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ⓘ Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ⓘ |
| associatedWithObject | miniature Old West diorama ⓘ |
| basedOn | American Old West cowboy stereotype ⓘ |
| comesToLifeAt | night ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Robert Ben Garant
ⓘ
Thomas Lennon ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Kahmunrah
ⓘ
Lancelot (Night at the Museum film series) ⓘ |
| filmSeriesStudio | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Night at the Museum (2006 film)
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linked to:
Night at the Museum
|
| franchise | Night at the Museum film series ⓘ |
| franchiseGenre | fantasy comedy ⓘ |
| friendOf |
Larry Daley
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Octavius ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreRole | comic sidekick ⓘ |
| hasAbility | movement at night due to magical tablet ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bravery despite small size
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humorous dialogue ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | museum exhibit (fictional) ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | gets trapped in an hourglass in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ⓘ |
| occupation | cowboy ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
hot-headed
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impulsive ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Owen Wilson ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
comic relief
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supporting character ⓘ |
| setting |
American Museum of Natural History (fictionalized)
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linked to:
American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution (fictionalized) ⓘ
linked to:
Smithsonian Institution
|
| size | miniature ⓘ |
| species | toy ⓘ |
| teamUpWith |
Larry Daley to save the museum exhibits
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Octavius to face larger threats ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ahkmenrah in Night at the Museum
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