Sly Fox
E1019717
Sly Fox is a comedic stage play by Larry Gelbart, adapted from Ben Jonson’s "Volpone," that satirizes greed and deception.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sly Fox canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13083692 — 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: Sly Fox Context triple: [Larry Gelbart, notableWork, Sly Fox]
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A.
Marin the Fox
Marin the Fox is a legendary Hearthstone minion known for summoning a treasure-filled chest for opponents that players can break open for powerful rewards.
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B.
Gray Fox
Gray Fox is a clandestine U.S. Army intelligence unit, formally known as the Intelligence Support Activity, that conducts highly classified signals and human intelligence operations in support of special operations forces.
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C.
Howler the Coyote
Howler the Coyote is the energetic and fan-friendly official mascot of the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes, known for entertaining crowds at games and community events.
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D.
Clyde the Cougar
Clyde the Cougar is the costumed feline mascot representing the College of Charleston’s athletic teams and school spirit.
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E.
Virginia Fox
Virginia Fox was an American silent film actress who appeared in numerous comedies in the 1910s and 1920s and later became known for her long marriage to film producer Darryl F. Zanuck.
- 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: Sly Fox Target entity description: Sly Fox is a comedic stage play by Larry Gelbart, adapted from Ben Jonson’s "Volpone," that satirizes greed and deception.
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A.
Marin the Fox
Marin the Fox is a legendary Hearthstone minion known for summoning a treasure-filled chest for opponents that players can break open for powerful rewards.
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B.
Gray Fox
Gray Fox is a clandestine U.S. Army intelligence unit, formally known as the Intelligence Support Activity, that conducts highly classified signals and human intelligence operations in support of special operations forces.
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C.
Howler the Coyote
Howler the Coyote is the energetic and fan-friendly official mascot of the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes, known for entertaining crowds at games and community events.
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D.
Clyde the Cougar
Clyde the Cougar is the costumed feline mascot representing the College of Charleston’s athletic teams and school spirit.
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E.
Virginia Fox
Virginia Fox was an American silent film actress who appeared in numerous comedies in the 1910s and 1920s and later became known for her long marriage to film producer Darryl F. Zanuck.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy play
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stage play ⓘ theatrical adaptation ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Volpone ⓘ |
| adapterOf | Volpone ⓘ |
| author | Larry Gelbart ⓘ |
| basedOn | Volpone ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Ben Jonson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasPlaywright | Larry Gelbart ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
avarice
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fraud ⓘ human greed ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
deception
ⓘ
greed ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | play ⓘ |
| originalAuthorOfSourceWork | Ben Jonson ⓘ |
| parodies | corruption ⓘ |
| satirizes |
deception
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greed ⓘ |
| workType | dramatic work ⓘ |
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: Sly Fox Description of subject: Sly Fox is a comedic stage play by Larry Gelbart, adapted from Ben Jonson’s "Volpone," that satirizes greed and deception.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.