Jack and the Beanstalk

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English fairy tale children's story fairy tale folk tale

Jack and the Beanstalk is a classic English fairy tale about a poor boy who climbs a magical beanstalk to a giant’s castle in the sky, encountering danger and treasure.

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All labels observed (13)

Label	Occurrences
Jack and the Beanstalk canonical	14
Jack and the Beanstalk (1902 film)	2
The Bean-Stalk	2
"Jack and the Beanstalk"	1
Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk)	1
Jack and the Beanstalk (1917 film)	1
Jack and the Beanstalk (2009 film)	1
Jack and the Beanstalk (children's book retellings)	1
Jack and the Beanstalk (film)	1
Jack and the Beanstalk (pantomime)	1
Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale	1
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	1
The Beanstalk	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T733665 — 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: Jack and the Beanstalk
Context triple: [Jack, featuredInWork, Jack and the Beanstalk]

A. The Brave Little Tailor
The Brave Little Tailor is a classic fairy tale, popularized by the Brothers Grimm and later adapted by Disney, about a clever tailor who uses his wits and exaggerated boasts to overcome seemingly impossible challenges.
B. The Reluctant Dragon
The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 Disney film that blends live-action and animation to tell the humorous story of a gentle, poetry-loving dragon who prefers friendship over fighting.
C. Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a classic animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that follows the adventures of a boy who never grows up and his friends in the magical world of Neverland.
D. Life in the Undergrowth
Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the hidden world and remarkable behaviors of invertebrates, presented and narrated by David Attenborough.
E. The Magic Faraway Tree
The Magic Faraway Tree is a classic children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton about a group of children who discover an enchanted tree whose top leads to a series of magical, ever-changing lands.
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: Jack and the Beanstalk
Target entity description: Jack and the Beanstalk is a classic English fairy tale about a poor boy who climbs a magical beanstalk to a giant’s castle in the sky, encountering danger and treasure.

A. The Brave Little Tailor
The Brave Little Tailor is a classic fairy tale, popularized by the Brothers Grimm and later adapted by Disney, about a clever tailor who uses his wits and exaggerated boasts to overcome seemingly impossible challenges.
B. The Reluctant Dragon
The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 Disney film that blends live-action and animation to tell the humorous story of a gentle, poetry-loving dragon who prefers friendship over fighting.
C. Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a classic animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that follows the adventures of a boy who never grows up and his friends in the magical world of Neverland.
D. Life in the Undergrowth
Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the hidden world and remarkable behaviors of invertebrates, presented and narrated by David Attenborough.
E. The Magic Faraway Tree
The Magic Faraway Tree is a classic children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton about a group of children who discover an enchanted tree whose top leads to a series of magical, ever-changing lands.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English fairy tale ⓘ children's story ⓘ fairy tale ⓘ folk tale ⓘ
centralConflict	Jack versus the giant ⓘ
collectedIn	English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	England ⓘ
fictionalUniverse	traditional European fairy-tale world ⓘ
firstMajorCollector	Joseph Jacobs ⓘ
genre	adventure fiction ⓘ fantasy ⓘ
hasAdaptation	Jack and the Beanstalk (children's book retellings) ⓘ linked to: Jack and the Beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk (film) ⓘ linked to: Jack and the Beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk (pantomime) ⓘ linked to: Jack and the Beanstalk
hasCharacter	Jack ⓘ Jack's mother ⓘ the cow ⓘ the giant ⓘ the giant's wife ⓘ the hen that lays golden eggs ⓘ the magical harp ⓘ
hasVariant	Jack the Giant Killer ⓘ
keyEvent	Jack climbs the beanstalk to the giant's castle ⓘ Jack cuts down the beanstalk ⓘ Jack steals treasures from the giant ⓘ Jack trades the family cow for magic beans ⓘ the beanstalk grows overnight into the sky ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
motif	beheading or felling of the beanstalk ⓘ climbing to the sky ⓘ magic beans ⓘ ogre or giant ⓘ treasure theft ⓘ
narrativeFocus	Jack ⓘ
notableQuote	Fee-fi-fo-fum ⓘ
openingSituation	Jack and his mother are poor ⓘ
plotElement	beanstalk ⓘ giant's castle in the sky ⓘ golden eggs ⓘ magic beans ⓘ talking harp ⓘ
resolution	Jack and his mother become rich ⓘ the giant falls and dies ⓘ
theme	bravery ⓘ consequences of greed ⓘ poverty and wealth ⓘ risk and reward ⓘ social class mobility ⓘ

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Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jack → featuredInWork → Jack and the Beanstalk ⓘ

Into the Woods (2014 film) → featuresCharacter → Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk) ⓘ

subject linked to: Into the Woods