The Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse
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The Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse is a classic Russian children's story by Samuil Marshak about a naive young mouse who ignores warnings and faces the consequences of its foolishness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9252442 — 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 Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse Context triple: [Samuil Marshak, notableWork, The Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse]
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A.
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a classic children's picture book by Beatrix Potter about two mischievous mice who wreak havoc in a doll's house, blending gentle humor with moral lessons.
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B.
King of the Mice
King of the Mice is a fictional monarch of a mouse kingdom, best known as the antagonist ruler of the mice in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and its adaptations.
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C.
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse is a classic children's picture book featuring a tidy little wood-mouse and her encounters with various woodland creatures, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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D.
The Mouse on the Moon
The Mouse on the Moon is a 1963 British satirical science-fiction comedy film that spoofs the space race, featuring Margaret Rutherford in a prominent role.
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E.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a darkly comic, alphabet-based picture book by Edward Gorey that depicts the morbidly humorous deaths of 26 children, each corresponding to a letter.
- 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 Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse Target entity description: The Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse is a classic Russian children's story by Samuil Marshak about a naive young mouse who ignores warnings and faces the consequences of its foolishness.
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A.
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a classic children's picture book by Beatrix Potter about two mischievous mice who wreak havoc in a doll's house, blending gentle humor with moral lessons.
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B.
King of the Mice
King of the Mice is a fictional monarch of a mouse kingdom, best known as the antagonist ruler of the mice in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and its adaptations.
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C.
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse is a classic children's picture book featuring a tidy little wood-mouse and her encounters with various woodland creatures, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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D.
The Mouse on the Moon
The Mouse on the Moon is a 1963 British satirical science-fiction comedy film that spoofs the space race, featuring Margaret Rutherford in a prominent role.
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E.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a darkly comic, alphabet-based picture book by Edward Gorey that depicts the morbidly humorous deaths of 26 children, each corresponding to a letter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian literature
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children's story ⓘ literary work ⓘ |
| author | Samuil Marshak ⓘ |
| authorFullName |
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak
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linked to:
Samuil Marshak
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| authorNationality | Soviet ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fable ⓘ |
| hasIllustratedEditions | true ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | children ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Soviet children's literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | a young mouse ⓘ |
| moral |
children should heed warnings from elders
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foolish behavior can lead to danger ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a naive young mouse who ignores warnings ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| theme |
consequences of foolishness
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disobedience ⓘ naivety ⓘ |
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 Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse Description of subject: The Tale of a Stupid Little Mouse is a classic Russian children's story by Samuil Marshak about a naive young mouse who ignores warnings and faces the consequences of its foolishness.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.