Tom Snout
E494617
Tom Snout is a minor comic character in Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, a rustic tinker who plays the Wall in the craftsmen’s play-within-the-play.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Snout canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5109928 — 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: Tom Snout Context triple: [A Midsummer Night's Dream, character, Tom Snout]
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A.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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B.
Nevil
Nevil is a given name and surname, typically considered a variant spelling of Nevill or Neville.
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C.
Bustopher Jones
Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
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D.
Hob Gadling
Hob Gadling is an immortal man in Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman" who periodically meets Dream across the centuries, serving as a lens on human history, change, and friendship.
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E.
Billy Twillig
Billy Twillig is the precocious teenage mathematical prodigy who serves as the central figure in Don DeLillo’s experimental science-fiction novel "Ratner’s Star."
- 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: Tom Snout Target entity description: Tom Snout is a minor comic character in Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, a rustic tinker who plays the Wall in the craftsmen’s play-within-the-play.
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A.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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B.
Nevil
Nevil is a given name and surname, typically considered a variant spelling of Nevill or Neville.
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C.
Bustopher Jones
Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
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D.
Hob Gadling
Hob Gadling is an immortal man in Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman" who periodically meets Dream across the centuries, serving as a lens on human history, change, and friendship.
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E.
Billy Twillig
Billy Twillig is the precocious teenage mathematical prodigy who serves as the central figure in Don DeLillo’s experimental science-fiction novel "Ratner’s Star."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakespearean character
ⓘ
comic character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| alsoCalled | Snout ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ⓘ
linked to:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
|
| appearsInAct |
Act III
ⓘ
Act IV ⓘ Act V ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Francis Flute
ⓘ
Hippolyta ⓘ
linked to:
Queen Hippolyta
Nick Bottom ⓘ Peter Quince ⓘ Robin Starveling ⓘ Theseus ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
comic relief
ⓘ
parody of amateur theatricals ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceApproximateDate | 1590s ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Early Modern English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance drama ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| memberOf |
the mechanicals
ⓘ
linked to:
play-within-the-play Pyramus and Thisbe
|
| nationalityInFiction | Athenian ⓘ |
| occupation | tinker ⓘ |
| partOf | play-within-a-play structure ⓘ |
| performsIn |
Pyramus and Thisbe
ⓘ
linked to:
play-within-the-play Pyramus and Thisbe
|
| roleInPlayWithinPlay | Wall ⓘ |
| socialClass | rustic ⓘ |
| workSetting |
ancient Athens
ⓘ
linked to:
Classical Athens
|
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: Tom Snout Description of subject: Tom Snout is a minor comic character in Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, a rustic tinker who plays the Wall in the craftsmen’s play-within-the-play.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.