Kory-Kory
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Kory-Kory is a native islander and devoted attendant who guides and cares for the narrator in Herman Melville’s novel "Typee."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kory-Kory canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530886 — 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: Kory-Kory Context triple: [Typee, hasCharacter, Kory-Kory]
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A.
Korekore
Korekore is a major dialect of the Shona language spoken primarily in northern Zimbabwe.
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B.
Kokovoko
Kokovoko is the fictional, remote South Pacific island homeland of Queequeg in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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C.
Putaendo
Putaendo is a small Chilean city in the Valparaíso Region, known for its rural character, historical heritage, and location in the Aconcagua Valley.
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D.
Nanu Nanu
Nanu Nanu is the quirky alien greeting popularized by Robin Williams’s character Mork on the TV sitcom "Mork & Mindy."
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E.
Kop Sang et Or
Kop Sang et Or is a prominent supporters' group known for passionately backing the French football club RC Lens.
- 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: Kory-Kory Target entity description: Kory-Kory is a native islander and devoted attendant who guides and cares for the narrator in Herman Melville’s novel "Typee."
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A.
Korekore
Korekore is a major dialect of the Shona language spoken primarily in northern Zimbabwe.
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B.
Kokovoko
Kokovoko is the fictional, remote South Pacific island homeland of Queequeg in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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C.
Putaendo
Putaendo is a small Chilean city in the Valparaíso Region, known for its rural character, historical heritage, and location in the Aconcagua Valley.
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D.
Nanu Nanu
Nanu Nanu is the quirky alien greeting popularized by Robin Williams’s character Mork on the TV sitcom "Mork & Mindy."
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E.
Kop Sang et Or
Kop Sang et Or is a prominent supporters' group known for passionately backing the French football club RC Lens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polynesian character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Typee ⓘ |
| basedOn | Marquesan natives encountered by Herman Melville ⓘ |
| caresFor | Tommo ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cheerful
ⓘ
good-natured ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInWork | Marquesas Islands ⓘ |
| createdBy | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Marquesan
ⓘ
linked to:
Marquesas Islands
|
| fictionalUniverse | Typee universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Typee, Chapter describing Tommo’s early days in the valley ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
adventure novel
ⓘ
travel narrative ⓘ |
| helpsWith | Tommo’s recovery and daily needs ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Marquesan (in-novel depiction) ⓘ |
| locatedInWork | Marquesas Islands ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | Marquesan islander ⓘ |
| occupation | attendant ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWorkAppearedIn | 1846 ⓘ |
| relationshipTo | Tommo ⓘ |
| residence |
Nuku Hiva
ⓘ
Typee Valley ⓘ
linked to:
Typee
|
| role |
caretaker
ⓘ
devoted attendant ⓘ guide ⓘ |
| servesAs |
Tommo’s guide in Typee Valley
ⓘ
Tommo’s personal attendant ⓘ |
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: Kory-Kory Description of subject: Kory-Kory is a native islander and devoted attendant who guides and cares for the narrator in Herman Melville’s novel "Typee."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.