Rincewind
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Rincewind is a cowardly and inept yet improbably lucky wizard from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, known for his comic misadventures and talent for running away.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rincewind canonical | 17 |
| Rincewind story arc | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796052 — 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: Rincewind Context triple: [Discworld, mainCharacter, Rincewind]
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A.
Sir Bedevere
Sir Bedevere is a comically earnest and pseudo-scientific knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, known for his absurd logic and role in King Arthur’s quest.
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B.
Sebaldus Nothanker
Sebaldus Nothanker is a satirical novel by Friedrich Nicolai that critiques religious hypocrisy and social conditions in late 18th-century Germany.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Hob Gadling
Hob Gadling is an immortal man in Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman" who periodically meets Dream across the centuries, serving as a lens on human history, change, and friendship.
- 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: Rincewind Target entity description: Rincewind is a cowardly and inept yet improbably lucky wizard from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, known for his comic misadventures and talent for running away.
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A.
Sir Bedevere
Sir Bedevere is a comically earnest and pseudo-scientific knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, known for his absurd logic and role in King Arthur’s quest.
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B.
Sebaldus Nothanker
Sebaldus Nothanker is a satirical novel by Friedrich Nicolai that critiques religious hypocrisy and social conditions in late 18th-century Germany.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Hob Gadling
Hob Gadling is an immortal man in Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman" who periodically meets Dream across the centuries, serving as a lens on human history, change, and friendship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Discworld character
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fictional character ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| affiliation | Unseen University ⓘ |
| alignment | chaotic good ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Discworld
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Eric ⓘ Interesting Times ⓘ Sourcery ⓘ The Colour of Magic ⓘ The Last Continent ⓘ The Last Hero ⓘ The Light Fantastic ⓘ Unseen Academicals ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
The Colour of Magic (TV adaptation)
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linked to:
The Colour of Magic (TV miniseries)
|
| companion |
Cohen the Barbarian
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Librarian ⓘ The Luggage ⓘ Twoflower ⓘ |
| creator | Terry Pratchett ⓘ |
| education | Unseen University ⓘ |
| enemy |
Death (occasionally)
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various wizards ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Colour of Magic ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasItem |
pointy hat with misspelled WIZZARD
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tattered robe ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
languages
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running ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Wizzard ⓘ |
| homeWorld | Discworld ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comic misadventures
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cowardice ⓘ improbable luck ⓘ lack of magical ability ⓘ running away ⓘ |
| nationality |
Ankh-Morporkian
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linked to:
Ankh-Morpork
|
| notableCharacteristic |
cannot successfully perform spells
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extreme survival instinct ⓘ speaks many languages poorly ⓘ |
| occupation | wizard ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
David Jason
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir David Jason
|
| residence | Ankh-Morpork ⓘ |
| role | reluctant hero ⓘ |
| theme | parody of traditional fantasy wizards ⓘ |
| universe |
Discworld universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Discworld
|
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: Rincewind Description of subject: Rincewind is a cowardly and inept yet improbably lucky wizard from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, known for his comic misadventures and talent for running away.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.