Little Jack Horner
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Little Jack Horner is a traditional English nursery rhyme character best known for pulling a plum out of a Christmas pie with his thumb.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Jack Horner canonical | 3 |
| "Little Jack Horner" nursery rhyme | 1 |
| Big Jack Horner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T733667 — 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: Little Jack Horner Context triple: [Jack, featuredInWork, Little Jack Horner]
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A.
Mary Goose
Mary Goose is a historical figure buried in Boston’s Granary Burying Ground, sometimes associated in legend with the origins of the “Mother Goose” nursery rhymes.
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B.
Goosefat Bill
Goosefat Bill is a roguish, sharp-tongued ally of Arthur and skilled fighter in the fantasy action film "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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C.
Harold
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
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D.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
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E.
Charlie the cook
Charlie the cook is a supporting character in the 1933 adventure film "Son of Kong," serving as the ship’s cook and providing comic relief during the expedition.
- 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: Little Jack Horner Target entity description: Little Jack Horner is a traditional English nursery rhyme character best known for pulling a plum out of a Christmas pie with his thumb.
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A.
Mary Goose
Mary Goose is a historical figure buried in Boston’s Granary Burying Ground, sometimes associated in legend with the origins of the “Mother Goose” nursery rhymes.
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B.
Goosefat Bill
Goosefat Bill is a roguish, sharp-tongued ally of Arthur and skilled fighter in the fantasy action film "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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C.
Harold
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
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D.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
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E.
Charlie the cook
Charlie the cook is a supporting character in the 1933 adventure film "Son of Kong," serving as the ship’s cook and providing comic relief during the expedition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ nursery rhyme character ⓘ |
| activity |
eating pie
ⓘ
sitting in a corner ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
"Little Jack Horner" nursery rhyme
ⓘ
linked to:
Little Jack Horner
|
| associatedWith |
Christmas pie
ⓘ
plum ⓘ thumb ⓘ |
| audience | children ⓘ |
| bodyPartUsed | thumb ⓘ |
| collectedIn | Mother Goose collections ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | proverbial expression for smug self-satisfaction ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | English folklore ⓘ |
| diminutiveForm | Little Jack Horner ⓘ |
| exclamation | "What a good boy am I!" ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | legendary ⓘ |
| food |
Christmas pie
ⓘ
plum ⓘ |
| genre | nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| hasName | Jack Horner ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| line |
"And said, 'What a good boy am I!'"
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"Eating a Christmas pie" ⓘ "He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum" ⓘ "Little Jack Horner sat in a corner" ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse ⓘ |
| medium | oral tradition ⓘ |
| notableFor | pulling a plum out of a Christmas pie with his thumb ⓘ |
| period | early modern England ⓘ |
| rhymeType | traditional nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| theme |
child behavior
ⓘ
self-satisfaction ⓘ |
| usedAs |
children's song
ⓘ
teaching rhyme ⓘ |
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: Little Jack Horner Description of subject: Little Jack Horner is a traditional English nursery rhyme character best known for pulling a plum out of a Christmas pie with his thumb.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Little Jack Horner
linked to: Little Jack Horner