Ted Brautigan
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Ted Brautigan is a mysterious, telepathic drifter and central figure in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, notably serving as a mentor-like character in the novella "Low Men in Yellow Coats" within Hearts in Atlantis.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Brautigan canonical | 4 |
| Ted Brautigan has psychic abilities | 1 |
| Ted Stevens Brautigan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243260 — 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: Ted Brautigan Context triple: [Hearts in Atlantis, hasCharacter, Ted Brautigan]
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A.
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan was an American novelist and poet known for his whimsical, surreal, and genre-blending works that became emblematic of 1960s counterculture literature.
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B.
Japhy Ryder
Japhy Ryder is a free-spirited, mountain-climbing poet and Buddhist-influenced bohemian based on Gary Snyder in Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Dharma Bums."
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C.
Red Grooms
Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist known for his colorful, cartoonish, and immersive pop-art installations and cityscapes that blend painting, sculpture, and performance.
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D.
Sid Gillman
Sid Gillman was an innovative American football coach and Hall of Famer widely regarded as a pioneer of the modern passing offense.
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E.
Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso was an American poet closely associated with the Beat Generation, known for his energetic, surreal, and rebellious verse.
- 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: Ted Brautigan Target entity description: Ted Brautigan is a mysterious, telepathic drifter and central figure in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, notably serving as a mentor-like character in the novella "Low Men in Yellow Coats" within Hearts in Atlantis.
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A.
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan was an American novelist and poet known for his whimsical, surreal, and genre-blending works that became emblematic of 1960s counterculture literature.
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B.
Japhy Ryder
Japhy Ryder is a free-spirited, mountain-climbing poet and Buddhist-influenced bohemian based on Gary Snyder in Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Dharma Bums."
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C.
Red Grooms
Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist known for his colorful, cartoonish, and immersive pop-art installations and cityscapes that blend painting, sculpture, and performance.
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D.
Sid Gillman
Sid Gillman was an innovative American football coach and Hall of Famer widely regarded as a pioneer of the modern passing offense.
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E.
Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso was an American poet closely associated with the Beat Generation, known for his energetic, surreal, and rebellious verse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drifter
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fictional character ⓘ telepath ⓘ |
| ageInStory | elderly ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hearts in Atlantis
ⓘ
Low Men in Yellow Coats ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Breakers
ⓘ
Dark Tower multiverse ⓘ
linked to:
The Dark Tower series
low men ⓘ |
| bookPublicationContext |
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hearts in Atlantis
|
| characterTrait |
intelligent
ⓘ
kind ⓘ mysterious ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Crimson King
ⓘ
linked to:
The Crimson King
The Dark Tower series ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Low Men in Yellow Coats ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
precognition
ⓘ
telepathy ⓘ |
| hasPowerSource | psychic energy ⓘ |
| hasThemeConnection |
loss of innocence
ⓘ
persecution of the different ⓘ power and responsibility ⓘ |
| knows | Bobby Garfield ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
coming-of-age fiction
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for Bobby Garfield’s coming-of-age
ⓘ
mentor archetype ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| occupation | Breaker ⓘ |
| opposes | Crimson King’s plans ⓘ |
| pursuedBy |
low men in yellow coats
ⓘ
linked to:
Low Men in Yellow Coats
|
| relatedWork |
Black House
ⓘ
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower ⓘ |
| residesAt | boarding house in Harwich, Connecticut ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central figure in Low Men in Yellow Coats
ⓘ
mentor to Bobby Garfield ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | 1960s ⓘ |
| universe | Stephen King multiverse ⓘ |
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: Ted Brautigan Description of subject: Ted Brautigan is a mysterious, telepathic drifter and central figure in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, notably serving as a mentor-like character in the novella "Low Men in Yellow Coats" within Hearts in Atlantis.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ted Brautigan
linked to: Ted Brautigan