Killick
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Killick is the irascible yet fiercely loyal steward and servant to Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin naval novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Killick canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6189785 — 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: Killick Context triple: [HMS Surprise, notableCrewMember, Killick]
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A.
Barnard Rubble
Barnard "Barney" Rubble is a main character from the animated television series "The Flintstones," known as Fred Flintstone’s cheerful best friend and neighbor in the prehistoric town of Bedrock.
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B.
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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C.
Lurch
Lurch is the towering, gloomy butler of the eccentric Addams Family, known for his deep voice, slow movements, and deadpan demeanor.
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D.
Clutterbuck
Clutterbuck is the birth surname of English actor Andrew Lincoln, best known for his role as Rick Grimes in the television series "The Walking Dead."
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E.
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.
- 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: Killick Target entity description: Killick is the irascible yet fiercely loyal steward and servant to Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin naval novels.
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A.
Barnard Rubble
Barnard "Barney" Rubble is a main character from the animated television series "The Flintstones," known as Fred Flintstone’s cheerful best friend and neighbor in the prehistoric town of Bedrock.
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B.
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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C.
Lurch
Lurch is the towering, gloomy butler of the eccentric Addams Family, known for his deep voice, slow movements, and deadpan demeanor.
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D.
Clutterbuck
Clutterbuck is the birth surname of English actor Andrew Lincoln, best known for his role as Rick Grimes in the television series "The Walking Dead."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ servant ⓘ ship’s steward ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Aubrey–Maturin series ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Jack Aubrey
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Stephen Maturin ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Patrick O’Brian
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linked to:
Patrick O'Brian
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| employer | Jack Aubrey ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | an Aubrey–Maturin novel by Patrick O’Brian ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Jack Aubrey ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | comic relief ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
servant
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steward ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
cantankerous
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grumbling ⓘ irascible ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| recursThroughout |
Aubrey–Maturin novels
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linked to:
Aubrey–Maturin series
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| seriesGenre | historical naval fiction ⓘ |
| servesOnShipOf | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
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: Killick Description of subject: Killick is the irascible yet fiercely loyal steward and servant to Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin naval novels.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.