Zebedee
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Zebedee is the spring-bodied, jack-in-the-box-like character who serves as the magical, authoritative figure in the classic children's television series "The Magic Roundabout."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zebedee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18303104 — 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: Zebedee Context triple: [The Magic Roundabout, notableCharacter, Zebedee]
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A.
Zebedee
Zebedee is a New Testament figure known as the father of the apostles James and John and as a Galilean fisherman mentioned in the Gospels.
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B.
Zacharias Bear
Zacharias Bear is an alternative name for Zacharias Ursinus, the 16th-century German Reformed theologian best known as a principal author of the Heidelberg Catechism.
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C.
Jabez
Jabez is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin traditionally interpreted to mean "sorrow" or "pain."
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D.
Joseph the Carpenter
Joseph the Carpenter is a 17th-century religious painting by French Baroque artist Georges de La Tour, depicting a nocturnal, candlelit scene of the young Jesus with his earthly father, Joseph.
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E.
Jebediah
Jebediah is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, often associated with rustic or old-fashioned American usage and commonly shortened to "Jeb."
- 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: Zebedee Target entity description: Zebedee is the spring-bodied, jack-in-the-box-like character who serves as the magical, authoritative figure in the classic children's television series "The Magic Roundabout."
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A.
Zebedee
Zebedee is a New Testament figure known as the father of the apostles James and John and as a Galilean fisherman mentioned in the Gospels.
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B.
Zacharias Bear
Zacharias Bear is an alternative name for Zacharias Ursinus, the 16th-century German Reformed theologian best known as a principal author of the Heidelberg Catechism.
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C.
Jabez
Jabez is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin traditionally interpreted to mean "sorrow" or "pain."
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D.
Joseph the Carpenter
Joseph the Carpenter is a 17th-century religious painting by French Baroque artist Georges de La Tour, depicting a nocturnal, candlelit scene of the young Jesus with his earthly father, Joseph.
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E.
Jebediah
Jebediah is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, often associated with rustic or old-fashioned American usage and commonly shortened to "Jeb."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.