Mr. McGregor
E510286
Mr. McGregor is the gruff, garden-owning antagonist who chases Peter Rabbit in Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s story.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. McGregor canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5312020 — 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: Mr. McGregor Context triple: [The Tale of Peter Rabbit, character, Mr. McGregor]
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A.
Frank Longbottom
Frank Longbottom is a brave Auror and father of Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter series, best known for being tortured into insanity by Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War.
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B.
Mr. Harling
Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
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C.
Mr Granger
Mr Granger is Hermione Granger’s Muggle father, a non-magical dentist who appears in the Harry Potter series.
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D.
Tom Snout
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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E.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
- 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: Mr. McGregor Target entity description: Mr. McGregor is the gruff, garden-owning antagonist who chases Peter Rabbit in Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s story.
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A.
Frank Longbottom
Frank Longbottom is a brave Auror and father of Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter series, best known for being tortured into insanity by Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War.
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B.
Mr. Harling
Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
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C.
Mr Granger
Mr Granger is Hermione Granger’s Muggle father, a non-magical dentist who appears in the Harry Potter series.
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D.
Tom Snout
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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E.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ human character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| antagonistOf | Peter Rabbit ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
ⓘ
The Tale of Peter Rabbit ⓘ works by Beatrix Potter ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation | Peter Rabbit adaptations ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise |
Peter Rabbit franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Peter Rabbit series
|
| appearsInGenre | children's literature ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | illustrated storybook ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Beatrix Potter universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction
garden tools ⓘ vegetables ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
bad-tempered
ⓘ
gruff ⓘ protective of his vegetables ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| chases | Peter Rabbit ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Peter Rabbit's family
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rabbits in his garden ⓘ |
| createdBy | Beatrix Potter ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
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linked to:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| guards | his garden ⓘ |
| hasEnemy |
Benjamin Bunny
ⓘ
Peter Rabbit ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | gardener ⓘ |
| hasRole |
farmer
ⓘ
garden owner ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | a cottage with a garden ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Mrs. McGregor ⓘ |
| motivation | protect his garden from rabbits ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| owns |
a garden
ⓘ
a vegetable garden ⓘ |
| partOf | Peter Rabbit series ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | villainous to animal characters ⓘ |
| setting | English countryside ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
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: Mr. McGregor Description of subject: Mr. McGregor is the gruff, garden-owning antagonist who chases Peter Rabbit in Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s story.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.