Toby
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Toby is a young, kind-hearted but ultimately traumatized boy who becomes a pivotal figure in the dark revenge tale of the 2007 musical horror film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Toby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2644347 — 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: Toby Context triple: [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film), mainCharacter, Toby]
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A.
Toby
Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
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B.
Toby
Toby is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Tobias.
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C.
Tobias
Tobias was a Native American man from the 17th-century Wampanoag community, known primarily through his familial connection to the Sakonnet leader Awashonks.
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D.
Tobias
Tobias is the full given name of Toby Ziegler, the fictional White House Communications Director from the television series "The West Wing."
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E.
Tobias
Tobias is the virtuous young protagonist of the biblical Book of Tobit, known for his journey with the angel Raphael and the healing of his father’s blindness.
- 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: Toby Target entity description: Toby is a young, kind-hearted but ultimately traumatized boy who becomes a pivotal figure in the dark revenge tale of the 2007 musical horror film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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A.
Toby
Toby is a central protagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy, known for her resilience, survival skills, and complex moral perspective in a post-apocalyptic world.
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B.
Toby
Toby is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Tobias.
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C.
Tobias
Tobias was a Native American man from the 17th-century Wampanoag community, known primarily through his familial connection to the Sakonnet leader Awashonks.
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D.
Tobias
Tobias is the virtuous young protagonist of the biblical Book of Tobit, known for his journey with the angel Raphael and the healing of his father’s blindness.
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E.
Tobias
Tobias is the full given name of Toby Ziegler, the fictional White House Communications Director from the television series "The West Wing."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ musical character ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| alignment | morally good ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)
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Sweeney Todd (stage production) ⓘ
surface form:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (stage musical)
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| appearsInGenre |
dark fantasy
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musical horror ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Johanna Barker
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Judge Turpin ⓘ Mrs. Lovett ⓘ Sweeney Todd (stage production) ⓘ
surface form:
Sweeney Todd
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| associatedWithTheme |
innocence corrupted
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revenge ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tobias Ragg ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Sweeney Todd (stage production)
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surface form:
Sweeney Todd universe
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| fullName | Tobias Ragg ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Toby ⓘ |
| guardianInStory | Mrs. Lovett ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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stage musical ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for the story’s climax
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witness to Sweeney Todd’s crimes ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | British ⓘ |
| occupationInStory |
assistant to a barber
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assistant to a pie shop owner ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
kind-hearted
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loyal ⓘ traumatized ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
pivotal character
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supporting character ⓘ |
| settingOfCharacter | 19th-century London ⓘ |
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: Toby Description of subject: Toby is a young, kind-hearted but ultimately traumatized boy who becomes a pivotal figure in the dark revenge tale of the 2007 musical horror film "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.