Ira
E1045627
Ira is one of the mischievous Wild Things, a monster character from Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book "Where the Wild Things Are."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ira canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507678 — 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: Ira Context triple: [Where the Wild Things Are, featuresCharacter, Ira]
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A.
Ira
Ira is a supporting character in the 1984 adventure-romance film "Romancing the Stone," involved in the story’s treasure-hunting and kidnapping plot.
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B.
Ira
Ira is a given name most famously associated with American lyricist Ira Gershwin, who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin on numerous classic songs and musicals.
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C.
Ira
Ira is a small rural town located in Rutland County in the state of Vermont, United States.
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D.
Iras
Iras is a loyal attendant and companion to Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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E.
Ira Newborn
Ira Newborn is an American composer and musician best known for his film scores and theme music for popular comedies of the 1980s and 1990s.
- 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: Ira Target entity description: Ira is one of the mischievous Wild Things, a monster character from Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book "Where the Wild Things Are."
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A.
Ira
Ira is a supporting character in the 1984 adventure-romance film "Romancing the Stone," involved in the story’s treasure-hunting and kidnapping plot.
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B.
Ira
Ira is a given name most famously associated with American lyricist Ira Gershwin, who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin on numerous classic songs and musicals.
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C.
Ira
Ira is a small rural town located in Rutland County in the state of Vermont, United States.
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D.
Iras
Iras is a loyal attendant and companion to Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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E.
Ira Newborn
Ira Newborn is an American composer and musician best known for his film scores and theme music for popular comedies of the 1980s and 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Wild Thing
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fictional character ⓘ monster ⓘ |
| alignment | chaotic but playful ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Where the Wild Things Are ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
Where the Wild Things Are (2009 film)
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linked to:
film Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
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| appearsInMedium | children's picture book ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Carol
ⓘ
Judith ⓘ Max ⓘ other Wild Things ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Where the Wild Things Are (1963 book) ⓘ |
| characterType | mischievous character ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Maurice Sendak ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | imaginary creature ⓘ |
| genre | children's literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | book ⓘ |
| notableWork | Where the Wild Things Are ⓘ |
| species | Wild Thing ⓘ |
| targetAudienceOfWork | children ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
childhood emotions
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imagination ⓘ wildness ⓘ |
| universe |
Where the Wild Things Are universe
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linked to:
island of the Wild Things
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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: Ira Description of subject: Ira is one of the mischievous Wild Things, a monster character from Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book "Where the Wild Things Are."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.