Tom Walker
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Tom Walker is the greedy, miserly protagonist of Washington Irving’s short story who makes a fateful bargain with the Devil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Walker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T581332 — 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: Tom Walker Context triple: [The Devil and Tom Walker, mainCharacter, Tom Walker]
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A.
Sheck Wes
Sheck Wes is an American rapper and songwriter best known for his breakout hit single "Mo Bamba" and his association with Kanye West’s GOOD Music label.
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B.
Swae Lee
Swae Lee is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter best known as one half of the hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd and for his melodic, genre-blending solo work and hit collaborations.
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C.
Jon Bellion
Jon Bellion is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and producer known for his genre-blending pop and hip-hop sound and for writing and producing hits for both himself and other major artists.
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D.
Post Malone
Post Malone is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter known for blending hip hop, pop, and rock influences in chart-topping hits like "Rockstar" and "Circles."
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E.
Benny Beaver
Benny Beaver is the costumed beaver mascot representing Oregon State University at its athletic events and school functions.
- 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: Tom Walker Target entity description: Tom Walker is the greedy, miserly protagonist of Washington Irving’s short story who makes a fateful bargain with the Devil.
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A.
Sheck Wes
Sheck Wes is an American rapper and songwriter best known for his breakout hit single "Mo Bamba" and his association with Kanye West’s GOOD Music label.
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B.
Swae Lee
Swae Lee is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter best known as one half of the hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd and for his melodic, genre-blending solo work and hit collaborations.
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C.
Jon Bellion
Jon Bellion is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and producer known for his genre-blending pop and hip-hop sound and for writing and producing hits for both himself and other major artists.
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D.
Post Malone
Post Malone is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter known for blending hip hop, pop, and rock influences in chart-topping hits like "Rockstar" and "Circles."
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E.
Benny Beaver
Benny Beaver is the costumed beaver mascot representing Oregon State University at its athletic events and school functions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Old Scratch’s client ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Devil and Tom Walker ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Faustian bargain
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consequences of greed ⓘ greed ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
| characterInGenre | short story ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
avaricious
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cowardly ⓘ greedy ⓘ hypocritical ⓘ miserly ⓘ |
| createdBy | Washington Irving ⓘ |
| diesBy | being carried off by the Devil ⓘ |
| fictionalOccupation | usurer ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1824 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInWork | Tales of a Traveller ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Tom Walker’s wife ⓘ |
| livesNear | a swamp ⓘ |
| makesPactWith | the Devil ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| pretendsToBe | pious Christian ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Devil and Tom Walker ⓘ |
| religiousHypocrisy | yes ⓘ |
| settingOfLife | New England ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
moral decay in pursuit of wealth
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the dangers of greed ⓘ |
| ultimatelyPunishedBy | the Devil ⓘ |
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: Tom Walker Description of subject: Tom Walker is the greedy, miserly protagonist of Washington Irving’s short story who makes a fateful bargain with the Devil.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.