Floss
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Floss is the fictional river that flows through the town of St. Ogg's in George Eliot's novel "The Mill on the Floss."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Floss canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12884708 — 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: Floss Context triple: [St. Ogg's, hasFictionalRiver, Floss]
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A.
Toothflossing Stringmints
Toothflossing Stringmints are a magical confectionery from the Harry Potter universe that both freshen the mouth and function like dental floss, sold at the Honeydukes sweet shop in Hogsmeade.
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B.
Finger
Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
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C.
Fingers
"Fingers" is a 1978 American crime drama film about a troubled debt collector and aspiring pianist, directed by James Toback and starring Harvey Keitel.
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D.
Flakes
Flakes is an indie comedy film centered on a quirky New Orleans cereal bar and its eccentric owner and staff.
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E.
Felt
Felt is a surname most famously associated with Mark Felt, the former FBI official revealed to be the Watergate scandal informant "Deep Throat."
- 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: Floss Target entity description: Floss is the fictional river that flows through the town of St. Ogg's in George Eliot's novel "The Mill on the Floss."
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A.
Toothflossing Stringmints
Toothflossing Stringmints are a magical confectionery from the Harry Potter universe that both freshen the mouth and function like dental floss, sold at the Honeydukes sweet shop in Hogsmeade.
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B.
Finger
Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
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C.
Fingers
"Fingers" is a 1978 American crime drama film about a troubled debt collector and aspiring pianist, directed by James Toback and starring Harvey Keitel.
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D.
Flakes
Flakes is an indie comedy film centered on a quirky New Orleans cereal bar and its eccentric owner and staff.
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E.
Felt
Felt is a surname most famously associated with Mark Felt, the former FBI official revealed to be the Watergate scandal informant "Deep Throat."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Floss Description of subject: Floss is the fictional river that flows through the town of St. Ogg's in George Eliot's novel "The Mill on the Floss."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.