The Boggart
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The Boggart is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Cooper about a mischievous Scottish spirit that accidentally becomes part of a modern Canadian family's life.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Boggart canonical | 2 |
| The Boggart and the Monster | 2 |
| The Boggart Fights Back | 1 |
| the Boggart | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13324350 — 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: The Boggart Context triple: [Susan Cooper, notableWork, The Boggart]
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A.
The Goblin
The Goblin is a supervillain persona in Marvel Comics most closely associated with Spider-Man’s arch-enemy, the Green Goblin.
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B.
The Witches
The Witches is a darkly comic children's fantasy novel by Roald Dahl about a young boy who discovers a secret society of child-hating witches plotting to eliminate all children.
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C.
The Magic Hedge
The Magic Hedge is a renowned birdwatching hotspot and migratory bird sanctuary located along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Chicago’s Montrose Point.
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D.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a darkly comic, alphabet-based picture book by Edward Gorey that depicts the morbidly humorous deaths of 26 children, each corresponding to a letter.
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E.
Aghwee the Sky Monster
Aghwee the Sky Monster is a surreal, symbolic short story by Kenzaburō Ōe that explores guilt, madness, and the blurred boundary between reality and hallucination.
- 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: The Boggart Target entity description: The Boggart is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Cooper about a mischievous Scottish spirit that accidentally becomes part of a modern Canadian family's life.
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A.
The Goblin
The Goblin is a supervillain persona in Marvel Comics most closely associated with Spider-Man’s arch-enemy, the Green Goblin.
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B.
The Witches
The Witches is a darkly comic children's fantasy novel by Roald Dahl about a young boy who discovers a secret society of child-hating witches plotting to eliminate all children.
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C.
The Magic Hedge
The Magic Hedge is a renowned birdwatching hotspot and migratory bird sanctuary located along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Chicago’s Montrose Point.
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D.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a darkly comic, alphabet-based picture book by Edward Gorey that depicts the morbidly humorous deaths of 26 children, each corresponding to a letter.
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E.
Aghwee the Sky Monster
Aghwee the Sky Monster is a surreal, symbolic short story by Kenzaburō Ōe that explores guilt, madness, and the blurred boundary between reality and hallucination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's fantasy novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Susan Cooper ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Boggart
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Emily Volnik ⓘ Jessup Volnik ⓘ Mr. Volnik ⓘ Mrs. Volnik ⓘ Tom MacDevon ⓘ |
| featuresSupernaturalBeing | Scottish spirit ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fantasy fiction ⓘ |
| hasFormat | print book ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
The Boggart and the Monster
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linked to:
The Boggart
|
| intendedMarket | middle-grade readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySeries |
Boggart series
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linked to:
The Boggart series
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| mainTheme |
clash between modern life and ancient magic
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cultural differences ⓘ family relationships ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableElement |
comic supernatural mischief
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use of Scottish folklore ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A mischievous Scottish boggart is accidentally transported to Canada and disrupts the life of the Volnik family. ⓘ |
| publisher | Margaret K. McElderry Books ⓘ |
| setting |
Canada
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Scotland ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
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: The Boggart Description of subject: The Boggart is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Cooper about a mischievous Scottish spirit that accidentally becomes part of a modern Canadian family's life.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Boggart
linked to: The Boggart
linked to: The Boggart
linked to: The Boggart