Nag
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Nag is a deadly male cobra and primary antagonist in Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” plotting with his mate Nagaina to kill the human family and their mongoose protector.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nag canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11824612 — 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: Nag Context triple: [Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, enemyOf, Nag]
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A.
Nagapasha
Nagapasha is a mythical serpent-noose weapon from Hindu epics, famed for binding its targets with powerful, inescapable snake bonds.
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B.
Oghi
Oghi is a town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, known as a local administrative and commercial center within the Hazara region.
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C.
Mazani
Mazani is an alternative name for the Mazanderani language, an Iranian language spoken primarily along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in northern Iran.
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D.
Jahai
The Jahai are an indigenous Orang Asli group of the Malay Peninsula, traditionally semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the forests around areas such as Royal Belum State Park in northern Peninsular Malaysia.
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E.
Iznogoud
Iznogoud is a French comic book series featuring a scheming grand vizier whose obsessive goal is to overthrow the caliph and become ruler in his place.
- 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: Nag Target entity description: Nag is a deadly male cobra and primary antagonist in Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” plotting with his mate Nagaina to kill the human family and their mongoose protector.
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A.
Nagapasha
Nagapasha is a mythical serpent-noose weapon from Hindu epics, famed for binding its targets with powerful, inescapable snake bonds.
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B.
Oghi
Oghi is a town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, known as a local administrative and commercial center within the Hazara region.
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C.
Mazani
Mazani is an alternative name for the Mazanderani language, an Iranian language spoken primarily along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in northern Iran.
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D.
Jahai
The Jahai are an indigenous Orang Asli group of the Malay Peninsula, traditionally semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the forests around areas such as Royal Belum State Park in northern Peninsular Malaysia.
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E.
Iznogoud
Iznogoud is a French comic book series featuring a scheming grand vizier whose obsessive goal is to overthrow the caliph and become ruler in his place.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
cobra ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| alignment | evil ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British (via creator Rudyard Kipling) ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Jungle Book ⓘ |
| characterType | anthropomorphized animal ⓘ |
| communication | speaks in human language in the story ⓘ |
| creator | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ⓘ |
| deathManner | bitten to death by mongoose ⓘ |
| enemy |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (character)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Teddy ⓘ Teddy’s parents ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Jungle Book universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Jungle Book franchise
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| firstPublication | 1894 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Jungle Book ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal |
kill Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
ⓘ
kill the human family ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | classic children’s villain ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| motivation |
protect cobra eggs
ⓘ
regain control of the garden ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | villain ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian (fictional animal setting) ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
deadly and cunning
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protective of his mate and eggs ⓘ vicious toward humans ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Darzee
ⓘ
Darzee’s wife ⓘ |
| partnerInCrime | Nagaina ⓘ |
| plotAction |
conspires with Nagaina to take over the garden
ⓘ
plans to wait in the bathroom to kill the human father ⓘ |
| role | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| setting | bungalow garden in India ⓘ |
| species | cobra ⓘ |
| speciesRole | snake antagonist ⓘ |
| spouse | Nagaina ⓘ |
| taxon | Naja naja ⓘ |
| workCollection |
The Jungle Book (short story collection)
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linked to:
The Jungle Book
|
| workGenre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
children’s literature ⓘ |
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: Nag Description of subject: Nag is a deadly male cobra and primary antagonist in Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” plotting with his mate Nagaina to kill the human family and their mongoose protector.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.