Elephant’s Child
E339540
Elephant’s Child is the curious young elephant protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Story who famously gets his long trunk after an encounter with a crocodile.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elephant’s Child canonical | 1 |
| The Elephant’s Child | 1 |
| the Elephant's Child | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3235071 — 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: Elephant’s Child Context triple: [The Elephant’s Child, mainCharacter, Elephant’s Child]
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A.
There Was a Child Went Forth
"There Was a Child Went Forth" is a reflective, early-life-themed poem by Walt Whitman that explores how a child's identity is shaped by the people, places, and experiences around them.
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B.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
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C.
Life in the Undergrowth
Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the hidden world and remarkable behaviors of invertebrates, presented and narrated by David Attenborough.
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D.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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E.
Under the Willows
Under the Willows is a poem by James Russell Lowell that reflects on nature, memory, and the passage of time beneath willow trees.
- 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: Elephant’s Child Target entity description: Elephant’s Child is the curious young elephant protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Story who famously gets his long trunk after an encounter with a crocodile.
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A.
There Was a Child Went Forth
"There Was a Child Went Forth" is a reflective, early-life-themed poem by Walt Whitman that explores how a child's identity is shaped by the people, places, and experiences around them.
-
B.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
-
C.
Life in the Undergrowth
Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the hidden world and remarkable behaviors of invertebrates, presented and narrated by David Attenborough.
-
D.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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E.
Under the Willows
Under the Willows is a poem by James Russell Lowell that reflects on nature, memory, and the passage of time beneath willow trees.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
elephant
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Just So Stories
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Elephant’s Child self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Elephant’s Child
|
| appearsInForm | short story ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | short story The Elephant’s Child ⓘ |
| bodyModification | nose stretched into a trunk ⓘ |
| causeOfLongTrunk | crocodile pulling his nose ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
curious
ⓘ
insatiably curious ⓘ |
| creator | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1902 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Just So Stories ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist | crocodile ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
consequences of curiosity
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curiosity ⓘ origin of animal features ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
children’s literature
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fantasy ⓘ origin myth ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | explains why elephants have trunks ⓘ |
| notableFor |
getting a long trunk after an encounter with a crocodile
ⓘ
origin story of the elephant’s trunk ⓘ |
| partOf | Just So Stories collection ⓘ |
| role | protagonist ⓘ |
| setting | Africa ⓘ |
| species | elephant ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
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: Elephant’s Child Description of subject: Elephant’s Child is the curious young elephant protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Story who famously gets his long trunk after an encounter with a crocodile.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Elephant’s Child
this entity surface form:
the Elephant's Child
this entity surface form:
The Elephant’s Child