Adam Pennyman
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Adam Pennyman is the obsessive, nostalgia-driven main character of D.B. Weiss’s novel "Lucky Wander Boy," whose life becomes consumed by his quest to catalog and understand classic video games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adam Pennyman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3250537 — 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: Adam Pennyman Context triple: [Lucky Wander Boy, protagonistName, Adam Pennyman]
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A.
Guy Bolton
Guy Bolton was a British-American playwright and librettist best known for his influential musical comedies and collaborations with figures like P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern.
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B.
Stanley Arthurs
Stanley Arthurs was an American illustrator known for his historical and narrative paintings, particularly scenes of early American history, and as a prominent student of Howard Pyle.
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C.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
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D.
Sam Hart
Sam Hart is a comic book artist best known for illustrating the graphic novel that inspired the film "Atomic Blonde."
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E.
Alfred Drake
Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
- 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: Adam Pennyman Target entity description: Adam Pennyman is the obsessive, nostalgia-driven main character of D.B. Weiss’s novel "Lucky Wander Boy," whose life becomes consumed by his quest to catalog and understand classic video games.
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A.
Guy Bolton
Guy Bolton was a British-American playwright and librettist best known for his influential musical comedies and collaborations with figures like P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern.
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B.
Stanley Arthurs
Stanley Arthurs was an American illustrator known for his historical and narrative paintings, particularly scenes of early American history, and as a prominent student of Howard Pyle.
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C.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
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D.
Sam Hart
Sam Hart is a comic book artist best known for illustrating the graphic novel that inspired the film "Atomic Blonde."
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E.
Alfred Drake
Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lucky Wander Boy ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
contemporary American fiction
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postmodern fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lucky Wander Boy
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surface form:
Lucky Wander Boy (fictional game)
arcade games ⓘ classic video games ⓘ |
| centralThemeInvolvement |
impact of obsession on personal life
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relationship between memory and video games ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
analytical
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introverted ⓘ nostalgic ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | D. B. Weiss ⓘ |
| drivenBy |
nostalgia
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obsession ⓘ |
| genre | video game culture fiction ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
to catalog classic video games
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to understand the meaning of classic video games ⓘ |
| hasName | Adam Pennyman self-link ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
nostalgia for arcade-era gaming
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obsessive interest in classic video games ⓘ |
| occupation | video game cataloger ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lucky Wander Boy
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surface form:
Lucky Wander Boy (novel) fictional universe
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| protagonistOf | Lucky Wander Boy ⓘ |
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: Adam Pennyman Description of subject: Adam Pennyman is the obsessive, nostalgia-driven main character of D.B. Weiss’s novel "Lucky Wander Boy," whose life becomes consumed by his quest to catalog and understand classic video games.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.