The Broken Ear
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The Broken Ear is a Tintin comic adventure by Hergé in which the young reporter investigates the theft of a tribal fetish, leading him into political intrigue and danger in South America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Broken Ear canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7697088 — 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: The Broken Ear Context triple: [The Adventures of Tintin, hasAlbum, The Broken Ear]
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A.
The Ear
The Ear is a distinctive rock formation on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, serving as a notable feature along the Salathé Wall climbing route.
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B.
The Broken Wing
The Broken Wing is a celebrated collection of poems by Indian poet and freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu, reflecting themes of patriotism, love, and spiritual longing.
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C.
The Broken Jug
The Broken Jug is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting a young girl with a broken water jug as a moralizing allegory of lost innocence.
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D.
The Blow
The Blow is an American indie pop band known for its minimalist electronic sound and introspective, narrative-driven lyrics.
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E.
The Broken Stool
The Broken Stool is likely a local bar or pub serving as a social gathering spot in Stoolbend, Virginia.
- 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: The Broken Ear Target entity description: The Broken Ear is a Tintin comic adventure by Hergé in which the young reporter investigates the theft of a tribal fetish, leading him into political intrigue and danger in South America.
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A.
The Ear
The Ear is a distinctive rock formation on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, serving as a notable feature along the Salathé Wall climbing route.
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B.
The Broken Wing
The Broken Wing is a celebrated collection of poems by Indian poet and freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu, reflecting themes of patriotism, love, and spiritual longing.
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C.
The Broken Jug
The Broken Jug is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting a young girl with a broken water jug as a moralizing allegory of lost innocence.
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D.
The Blow
The Blow is an American indie pop band known for its minimalist electronic sound and introspective, narrative-driven lyrics.
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E.
The Broken Stool
The Broken Stool is likely a local bar or pub serving as a social gathering spot in Stoolbend, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: The Broken Ear Description of subject: The Broken Ear is a Tintin comic adventure by Hergé in which the young reporter investigates the theft of a tribal fetish, leading him into political intrigue and danger in South America.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.