The Little Prince
E156906
The Little Prince is a beloved 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that uses a young prince’s interplanetary travels to explore themes of innocence, love, and the nature of human relationships.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1361326 — 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 Little Prince Context triple: [Alan Jay Lerner, notableWork, The Little Prince]
-
A.
A Little Princess
A Little Princess is a 1995 fantasy drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, and acclaimed for its lush, imaginative visual style.
-
B.
The Alchemist
The Alchemist is an internationally bestselling philosophical novel by Paulo Coelho that follows a young shepherd’s spiritual journey in search of his personal legend.
-
C.
Alice in Wonderland
"Alice in Wonderland" is a classic 1951 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that adapts Lewis Carroll’s whimsical tales of a young girl’s surreal adventures in a nonsensical world.
-
D.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a fantasy novel by Salman Rushdie that follows a boy’s quest to restore his storyteller father’s lost gift of storytelling in a richly allegorical, imaginative world.
-
E.
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is a Dr. Seuss–themed family ride based on the classic children’s book, featuring flying fish vehicles that move up and down while riders try to avoid getting splashed.
- 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 Little Prince Target entity description: The Little Prince is a beloved 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that uses a young prince’s interplanetary travels to explore themes of innocence, love, and the nature of human relationships.
-
A.
A Little Princess
A Little Princess is a 1995 fantasy drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, and acclaimed for its lush, imaginative visual style.
-
B.
The Alchemist
The Alchemist is an internationally bestselling philosophical novel by Paulo Coelho that follows a young shepherd’s spiritual journey in search of his personal legend.
-
C.
Alice in Wonderland
"Alice in Wonderland" is a classic 1951 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney that adapts Lewis Carroll’s whimsical tales of a young girl’s surreal adventures in a nonsensical world.
-
D.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a fantasy novel by Salman Rushdie that follows a boy’s quest to restore his storyteller father’s lost gift of storytelling in a richly allegorical, imaginative world.
-
E.
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is a Dr. Seuss–themed family ride based on the classic children’s book, featuring flying fish vehicles that move up and down while riders try to avoid getting splashed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's book
ⓘ
novella ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ |
| author | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
allegory
ⓘ
novella ⓘ philosophical tale ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Little Prince (1974 film)
ⓘ
The Little Prince (2015 film) ⓘ The Little Prince self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Little Prince (animated television adaptations)
The Little Prince self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Little Prince (stage adaptations)
|
| hasBeenTranslatedInto | over 300 languages and dialects ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
the aviator
ⓘ
the businessman ⓘ the conceited man ⓘ the drunkard ⓘ the fox ⓘ the geographer ⓘ the king ⓘ the lamplighter ⓘ the merchant ⓘ the narrator ⓘ the railway switchman ⓘ the rose ⓘ the snake ⓘ |
| hasIllustrationsBy | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
The Little Prince
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
the little prince
|
| hasSoldCopies | over 100 million ⓘ |
| isDedicatedTo | Léon Werth ⓘ |
| isOneOf | best-selling books of all time ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | French literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableQuote | On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
The Little Prince
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Le Petit Prince
|
| publicationYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstEdition | Reynal & Hitchcock ⓘ |
| setting |
Sahara Desert
ⓘ
asteroid B-612 ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children and adults ⓘ |
| theme |
critique of adult behavior
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ imagination ⓘ innocence ⓘ loneliness ⓘ loss ⓘ love ⓘ responsibility ⓘ the nature of human relationships ⓘ |
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 Little Prince Description of subject: The Little Prince is a beloved 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that uses a young prince’s interplanetary travels to explore themes of innocence, love, and the nature of human relationships.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Great Characters Edition The Little Prince
this entity surface form:
Le Petit Prince
this entity surface form:
the little prince
this entity surface form:
The Little Prince (stage adaptations)
this entity surface form:
The Little Prince (animated television adaptations)
this entity surface form:
the Little Prince
this entity surface form:
the Little Prince
this entity surface form:
the Little Prince
this entity surface form:
the Little Prince
this entity surface form:
Little Prince