Souter Johnnie
E651814
Souter Johnnie is a jovial cobbler character from Robert Burns’s narrative poem "Tam o' Shanter," known as the protagonist’s hard-drinking companion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Souter Johnnie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7245958 — 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: Souter Johnnie Context triple: [Tam o' Shanter, featuresCharacter, Souter Johnnie]
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A.
Hughie Flint
Hughie Flint is an English drummer best known for his work in the 1960s British blues scene, including playing with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and later co-founding the band McGuinness Flint.
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B.
Kyle of Lochalsh
Kyle of Lochalsh is a village on the northwest coast of Scotland that serves as a gateway to the Isle of Skye via the Skye Bridge.
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C.
Ramsay Crooks
Ramsay Crooks was a prominent 19th-century fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North American fur trade and later president of the American Fur Company.
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D.
John Crow
John Crow is a notable individual who bears the Crow surname, recognized for achievements that distinguish him among others with this family name.
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E.
Gawen Lawrie
Gawen Lawrie was a 17th-century English Quaker and colonial proprietor who played a key role in the early settlement and governance of West Jersey in North America.
- 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: Souter Johnnie Target entity description: Souter Johnnie is a jovial cobbler character from Robert Burns’s narrative poem "Tam o' Shanter," known as the protagonist’s hard-drinking companion.
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A.
Hughie Flint
Hughie Flint is an English drummer best known for his work in the 1960s British blues scene, including playing with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and later co-founding the band McGuinness Flint.
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B.
Kyle of Lochalsh
Kyle of Lochalsh is a village on the northwest coast of Scotland that serves as a gateway to the Isle of Skye via the Skye Bridge.
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C.
Ramsay Crooks
Ramsay Crooks was a prominent 19th-century fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North American fur trade and later president of the American Fur Company.
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D.
John Crow
John Crow is a notable individual who bears the Crow surname, recognized for achievements that distinguish him among others with this family name.
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E.
Gawen Lawrie
Gawen Lawrie was a 17th-century English Quaker and colonial proprietor who played a key role in the early settlement and governance of West Jersey in North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Tam o' Shanter ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
drinking culture
ⓘ
humour in the face of danger ⓘ male camaraderie ⓘ rural Scottish life ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ayr, Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
Ayr
Kirkoswald, South Ayrshire ⓘ
linked to:
Kirkoswald
|
| characterRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
hard-drinking
ⓘ
jovial ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | iconic figure in Burnsian folklore ⓘ |
| describedAs | jovial cobbler ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | narrative poem ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Tam o' Shanter ⓘ |
| hasNameInScots | Souter Johnnie ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ayrshire folk culture
ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish folklore
|
| inspired | Souter Johnnie's Cottage (tourist attraction) ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
Johnnie the cobbler
ⓘ
linked to:
The Cobbler
|
| occupation |
cobbler
ⓘ
shoemaker ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish literature ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Ayrshire ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | late 18th century ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Robert Burns ⓘ |
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: Souter Johnnie Description of subject: Souter Johnnie is a jovial cobbler character from Robert Burns’s narrative poem "Tam o' Shanter," known as the protagonist’s hard-drinking companion.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.