Peter Duck
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Peter Duck is a children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome in the Swallows and Amazons series, featuring a treasure-hunting voyage in the Caribbean.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Duck canonical | 10 |
| Peter Duck (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6005520 — 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: Peter Duck Context triple: [Arthur Ransome, notableWork, Peter Duck]
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A.
The Duck
The Duck is the costumed duck mascot that represents the University of Oregon’s athletic teams, including the softball program.
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B.
Mack the duckling
Mack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling figures in the famous "Make Way for Ducklings" public sculpture in Boston, inspired by the classic children's book of the same name.
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C.
Ouack the duckling
Ouack the duckling is one of the fictional duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings."
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D.
Jack the duckling
Jack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
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E.
Nack the duckling
Nack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling figures in Nancy Schön’s famous "Make Way for Ducklings" sculpture in Boston’s Public Garden, inspired by Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book.
- 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: Peter Duck Target entity description: Peter Duck is a children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome in the Swallows and Amazons series, featuring a treasure-hunting voyage in the Caribbean.
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A.
The Duck
The Duck is the costumed duck mascot that represents the University of Oregon’s athletic teams, including the softball program.
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B.
Mack the duckling
Mack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling figures in the famous "Make Way for Ducklings" public sculpture in Boston, inspired by the classic children's book of the same name.
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C.
Ouack the duckling
Ouack the duckling is one of the fictional duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings."
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D.
Jack the duckling
Jack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling characters from Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured in the famous Boston Public Garden sculpture.
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E.
Nack the duckling
Nack the duckling is one of the bronze duckling figures in Nancy Schön’s famous "Make Way for Ducklings" sculpture in Boston’s Public Garden, inspired by Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| antagonist |
Black Jake
ⓘ
Captain Flint's enemies ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Ransome ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Captain Flint
ⓘ
John Walker ⓘ Nancy Blackett ⓘ Peggy Blackett ⓘ Peter Duck (character) ⓘ
linked to:
Peter Duck
Roger Walker ⓘ Susan Walker ⓘ Titty Walker ⓘ |
| featuresVessel |
Amazon (boat)
ⓘ
linked to:
Amazon (fictional boat)
Swallow (boat) ⓘ Wild Cat ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
children's literature ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audio book
ⓘ
hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Winter Holiday ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adventure at sea
ⓘ
courage ⓘ friendship ⓘ treasure and greed ⓘ |
| illustrator | Arthur Ransome ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeRoleInSeries | fictional story told within the series continuity ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the more fantastical Swallows and Amazons books
ⓘ
depicting a Caribbean treasure-hunting voyage ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Swallows and Amazons ⓘ |
| plotFocus |
sea voyage
ⓘ
treasure hunt ⓘ |
| precededBy | Swallowdale ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | third book in Swallows and Amazons series ⓘ |
| setting |
Caribbean Sea
ⓘ
Norfolk (England) ⓘ
linked to:
Norfolk
|
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | interwar period ⓘ |
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: Peter Duck Description of subject: Peter Duck is a children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome in the Swallows and Amazons series, featuring a treasure-hunting voyage in the Caribbean.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Peter Duck