Teeny-Tiny
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Teeny-Tiny is a short, traditional English folk tale best known from Joseph Jacobs’ collection "English Fairy Tales," featuring a very small woman whose eerie experience with a borrowed bone leads to a humorous ghostly refrain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LittleThumb | 1 |
| Teeny-Tiny canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17049595 — 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: Teeny-Tiny Context triple: [English Fairy Tales, hasPart, Teeny-Tiny]
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A.
Teeny
Teeny is the nickname of Tina "Teeny" Tercell, a character known for her small stature and youthful, energetic personality.
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B.
Little Bitty
"Little Bitty" is a popular 1996 country song by Alan Jackson known for its upbeat tempo and celebration of simple, everyday joys.
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C.
Tiny
Tiny was the ironic nickname of Bernard Freyberg, a highly decorated British-New Zealand military commander and World War II general.
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D.
Tiny
Tiny is the giant blue ox companion of the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan in American folklore.
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E.
Txikiyana
Txikiyana is a dialectal variety of the Tiriyó language spoken by an Indigenous community in the Amazon region of northern South America.
- 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: Teeny-Tiny Target entity description: Teeny-Tiny is a short, traditional English folk tale best known from Joseph Jacobs’ collection "English Fairy Tales," featuring a very small woman whose eerie experience with a borrowed bone leads to a humorous ghostly refrain.
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A.
Teeny
Teeny is the nickname of Tina "Teeny" Tercell, a character known for her small stature and youthful, energetic personality.
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B.
Little Bitty
"Little Bitty" is a popular 1996 country song by Alan Jackson known for its upbeat tempo and celebration of simple, everyday joys.
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C.
Tiny
Tiny was the ironic nickname of Bernard Freyberg, a highly decorated British-New Zealand military commander and World War II general.
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D.
Tiny
Tiny is the giant blue ox companion of the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan in American folklore.
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E.
Txikiyana
Txikiyana is a dialectal variety of the Tiriyó language spoken by an Indigenous community in the Amazon region of northern South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
linked to: Teeny-Tiny