Ned
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Ned is the reflective former spy whose training-school recollections frame and narrate John le Carré’s novel *The Secret Pilgrim*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ned canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10397166 — 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: Ned Context triple: [The Secret Pilgrim, mainCharacter, Ned]
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A.
Ned
Ned is a common English diminutive form of the given name Edward.
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B.
Ned
Ned is the pie-making protagonist of the whimsical TV series "Pushing Daisies," gifted with the power to temporarily bring the dead back to life with a single touch.
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C.
Ned
Ned is a central character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible cost.
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D.
Ned Trent
Ned Trent is the protagonist of the thriller novel "The Specialist," known for his role as a skilled and determined operative navigating high-stakes danger.
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E.
Ned Pines
Ned Pines was an American pulp magazine and comic book publisher best known for founding Standard/Better/Nedor Publications, which produced numerous popular science fiction and adventure titles in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Ned Target entity description: Ned is the reflective former spy whose training-school recollections frame and narrate John le Carré’s novel *The Secret Pilgrim*.
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A.
Ned
Ned is a common English diminutive form of the given name Edward.
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B.
Ned
Ned is the pie-making protagonist of the whimsical TV series "Pushing Daisies," gifted with the power to temporarily bring the dead back to life with a single touch.
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C.
Ned
Ned is a central character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible cost.
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D.
Ned Trent
Ned Trent is the protagonist of the thriller novel "The Specialist," known for his role as a skilled and determined operative navigating high-stakes danger.
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E.
Ned Pines
Ned Pines was an American pulp magazine and comic book publisher best known for founding Standard/Better/Nedor Publications, which produced numerous popular science fiction and adventure titles in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Secret Pilgrim ⓘ |
| createdBy | John le Carré ⓘ |
| describedAs | reflective ⓘ |
| hasPastRole | former spy ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | frame narrator ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
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spy ⓘ |
| recollects |
episodes from his career in British intelligence
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training-school experiences ⓘ |
| roleInWork | narrator of The Secret Pilgrim ⓘ |
| worksFor | British intelligence service (fictionalized) ⓘ |
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: Ned Description of subject: Ned is the reflective former spy whose training-school recollections frame and narrate John le Carré’s novel *The Secret Pilgrim*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.