Paddington Bear
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Paddington Bear is a beloved fictional bear from Peru who wears a duffle coat and hat, loves marmalade sandwiches, and stars in a long-running series of children's books and film adaptations set in London.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paddington Bear canonical | 25 |
| Paddington | 10 |
| Paddington (narration) | 1 |
| Paddington Bear (TV series, 1989) | 1 |
| Paddington Bear (voice) | 1 |
| Paddington Bear book series | 1 |
| Paddington Bear stories | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3677320 — 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: Paddington Bear Context triple: [Paddington, hasFictionalAssociation, Paddington Bear]
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Paddington
Paddington is a central London district best known for its major railway station, historic canal basin, and association with the fictional Paddington Bear.
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Mr. Brown – Paddington
Mr. Brown in *Paddington* is the cautious yet kind-hearted London father who gradually embraces and protects the lovable bear Paddington as part of his family.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh is a classic children's character created by A. A. Milne, known as a lovable, honey-obsessed bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Wood with his animal friends.
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Pudsey
Pudsey is a market town in West Yorkshire, England, situated between Leeds and Bradford.
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E.
Rupert Bear
Rupert Bear is a classic British children's comic-strip character, a white bear in a red sweater and yellow checked trousers whose whimsical adventures have appeared in books, newspapers, and television adaptations since the 1920s.
- 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: Paddington Bear Target entity description: Paddington Bear is a beloved fictional bear from Peru who wears a duffle coat and hat, loves marmalade sandwiches, and stars in a long-running series of children's books and film adaptations set in London.
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A.
Paddington
Paddington is a central London district best known for its major railway station, historic canal basin, and association with the fictional Paddington Bear.
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B.
Mr. Brown – Paddington
Mr. Brown in *Paddington* is the cautious yet kind-hearted London father who gradually embraces and protects the lovable bear Paddington as part of his family.
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C.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh is a classic children's character created by A. A. Milne, known as a lovable, honey-obsessed bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Wood with his animal friends.
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D.
Pudsey
Pudsey is a market town in West Yorkshire, England, situated between Leeds and Bradford.
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E.
Rupert Bear
Rupert Bear is a classic British children's comic-strip character, a white bear in a red sweater and yellow checked trousers whose whimsical adventures have appeared in books, newspapers, and television adaptations since the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Paddington Bear Description of subject: Paddington Bear is a beloved fictional bear from Peru who wears a duffle coat and hat, loves marmalade sandwiches, and stars in a long-running series of children's books and film adaptations set in London.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Mr. Brown – Paddington
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Mr. Brown – Paddington
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Mr. Brown – Paddington
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Mr. Brown – Paddington
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Mr. Brown – Paddington
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Whishaw
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Hordern
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Brown family
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Brown family
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Brown family
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linked to: Paddington Bear