Mr. O'Dell
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Mr. O'Dell is a character from the Goosebumps book "Night of the Living Dummy III," involved in the eerie events surrounding the haunted ventriloquist dummy Slappy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. O'Dell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19975205 — 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: Mr. O'Dell Context triple: [Night of the Living Dummy III, featuresCharacter, Mr. O'Dell]
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A.
Mr. Applegate
Mr. Applegate is the devilish antagonist in the musical "Damn Yankees," who tempts a baseball fan with a Faustian bargain to help his favorite team win.
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B.
Mr. Garrett
Mr. Garrett is a young librarian and the protagonist of M. R. James’s ghost story “The Tractate Middoth,” who becomes entangled in a sinister mystery involving an old book and a haunted inheritance.
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C.
Mr. Peebles
Mr. Peebles is the pet shop owner in the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Magilla Gorilla," known for repeatedly trying to sell the lovable gorilla Magilla.
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D.
Herman McDodd
Herman McDodd is one of the many children in the McDodd family from Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!", living in Whoville as the son of Mayor Ned McDodd.
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E.
Mr. Tryan
Mr. Tryan is a zealous yet controversial evangelical clergyman in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," whose moral rigor and conflicts with the community drive the story’s central themes of faith and redemption.
- 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: Mr. O'Dell Target entity description: Mr. O'Dell is a character from the Goosebumps book "Night of the Living Dummy III," involved in the eerie events surrounding the haunted ventriloquist dummy Slappy.
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A.
Mr. Applegate
Mr. Applegate is the devilish antagonist in the musical "Damn Yankees," who tempts a baseball fan with a Faustian bargain to help his favorite team win.
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B.
Mr. Garrett
Mr. Garrett is a young librarian and the protagonist of M. R. James’s ghost story “The Tractate Middoth,” who becomes entangled in a sinister mystery involving an old book and a haunted inheritance.
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C.
Mr. Peebles
Mr. Peebles is the pet shop owner in the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Magilla Gorilla," known for repeatedly trying to sell the lovable gorilla Magilla.
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D.
Herman McDodd
Herman McDodd is one of the many children in the McDodd family from Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!", living in Whoville as the son of Mayor Ned McDodd.
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E.
Mr. Tryan
Mr. Tryan is a zealous yet controversial evangelical clergyman in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," whose moral rigor and conflicts with the community drive the story’s central themes of faith and redemption.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.