Paul the Peddler
E305981
Paul the Peddler is a 19th-century rags-to-riches boys’ novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor New York City newsboy striving for success through honesty and hard work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul the Peddler canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2867537 — 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: Paul the Peddler Context triple: [Horatio Alger Jr., notableWork, Paul the Peddler]
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A.
Ole the Gaucho
Ole the Gaucho is the costumed cowboy-style mascot who represents the athletic teams and school spirit of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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B.
Raymond
Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
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C.
Raymond
Raymond is the middle name of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the prominent figure behind the anti-communist "McCarthyism" movement in the 1950s.
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D.
Raymond
Raymond is the given name of Ray Tomlinson, the American computer programmer widely credited with inventing networked email and introducing the use of the "@" symbol in email addresses.
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E.
Raymond
Raymond is the given first name of Teller, the silent half of the famous magician duo Penn & Teller.
- 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: Paul the Peddler Target entity description: Paul the Peddler is a 19th-century rags-to-riches boys’ novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor New York City newsboy striving for success through honesty and hard work.
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A.
Ole the Gaucho
Ole the Gaucho is the costumed cowboy-style mascot who represents the athletic teams and school spirit of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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B.
Raymond
Raymond is the middle name of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the prominent figure behind the anti-communist "McCarthyism" movement in the 1950s.
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C.
Raymond
Raymond is the given name of Ray Tomlinson, the American computer programmer widely credited with inventing networked email and introducing the use of the "@" symbol in email addresses.
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D.
Raymond
Raymond is the given first name of Teller, the silent half of the famous magician duo Penn & Teller.
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E.
Raymond
Raymond is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boys' novel
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novel ⓘ rags-to-riches story ⓘ |
| author | Horatio Alger Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
street life in 19th-century New York City
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urban poverty ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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coming-of-age novel ⓘ didactic fiction ⓘ moralistic fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMoralLesson | success is achieved through honesty and hard work ⓘ |
| intendedMarket | juvenile fiction market ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Horatio Alger rags-to-riches tradition
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linked to:
Horatio Alger myth
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| literaryPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation |
newsboy
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peddler ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
hard work
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honesty ⓘ moral virtue rewarded ⓘ rags to riches ⓘ self-reliance ⓘ social mobility ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonist | Paul ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
boys
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young readers ⓘ |
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: Paul the Peddler Description of subject: Paul the Peddler is a 19th-century rags-to-riches boys’ novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor New York City newsboy striving for success through honesty and hard work.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.