Addie Pray
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Addie Pray is a 1971 novel by Joe David Brown, best known as the source material for the film "Paper Moon," about a young girl and a con man traveling through the rural American South during the Great Depression.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Addie Pray canonical | 5 |
| Addie Loggins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5433547 — 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: Addie Pray Context triple: [Paper Moon, basedOn, Addie Pray]
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A.
Addie Wolff
Addie Wolff was the wife of prominent American investment banker and philanthropist Otto H. Kahn.
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B.
Addie
Addie is the given name of Addie Mae Collins, one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal event in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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C.
Honeysuckle Weeks
Honeysuckle Weeks is a British actress best known for playing Samantha Stewart in the television detective drama series "Foyle's War."
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D.
Margaret Glaspy
Margaret Glaspy is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for her raw, introspective indie rock and folk-influenced music.
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E.
Mitchell Alsup
Mitchell Alsup is a computer engineer best known as one of the founders of Transmeta, a company that developed innovative low-power microprocessor technologies.
- 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: Addie Pray Target entity description: Addie Pray is a 1971 novel by Joe David Brown, best known as the source material for the film "Paper Moon," about a young girl and a con man traveling through the rural American South during the Great Depression.
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A.
Addie Wolff
Addie Wolff was the wife of prominent American investment banker and philanthropist Otto H. Kahn.
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B.
Addie
Addie is the given name of Addie Mae Collins, one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, a pivotal event in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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C.
Honeysuckle Weeks
Honeysuckle Weeks is a British actress best known for playing Samantha Stewart in the television detective drama series "Foyle's War."
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D.
Margaret Glaspy
Margaret Glaspy is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for her raw, introspective indie rock and folk-influenced music.
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E.
Mitchell Alsup
Mitchell Alsup is a computer engineer best known as one of the founders of Transmeta, a company that developed innovative low-power microprocessor technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | Peter Bogdanovich ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| adaptationStars |
Ryan O'Neal
ⓘ
Tatum O'Neal ⓘ |
| adaptationTitleChange | The film adaptation was retitled Paper Moon. ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Paper Moon (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Paper Moon
|
| alsoKnownFor | being the source material for the film Paper Moon ⓘ |
| author | Joe David Brown ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fictionalUniverse | American South during the 1930s ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ picaresque novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Addie
ⓘ
Moses Pray ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young girl teams up with a con man to run scams while traveling through the rural American South during the Great Depression. ⓘ |
| protagonistAge | young girl ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
| settingRegion | rural American South ⓘ |
| theme |
scams and confidence tricks
ⓘ
survival during economic hardship ⓘ unconventional family bonds ⓘ |
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: Addie Pray Description of subject: Addie Pray is a 1971 novel by Joe David Brown, best known as the source material for the film "Paper Moon," about a young girl and a con man traveling through the rural American South during the Great Depression.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.