Ennui
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Ennui is a new emotion character in Pixar's "Inside Out 2," embodying teenage boredom, apathy, and disinterest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ennui canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9788828 — 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: Ennui Context triple: [Inside Out 2, featuresCharacter, Ennui]
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A.
Ennui
"Ennui" is a painting by British artist Walter Sickert that depicts a mood of boredom and existential weariness through a dimly lit domestic interior scene.
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B.
Indifference
Indifference is a state of apathy or lack of interest, concern, or emotional involvement toward people, events, or outcomes.
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C.
Melancholy
Melancholy is an 1890s painting by Edvard Munch that portrays a brooding, introspective figure on a shoreline, exemplifying the artist’s exploration of emotional anxiety and existential despair.
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D.
Melancholy
"Melancholy" is a jazz piece famously recorded by New Orleans clarinetist Johnny Dodds, showcasing his expressive and blues-inflected style.
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E.
Dulness
Dulness is the allegorical goddess of stupidity and intellectual decay who presides over the forces of mediocrity in Alexander Pope’s mock-epic poem "The Dunciad."
- 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: Ennui Target entity description: Ennui is a new emotion character in Pixar's "Inside Out 2," embodying teenage boredom, apathy, and disinterest.
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A.
Ennui
"Ennui" is a painting by British artist Walter Sickert that depicts a mood of boredom and existential weariness through a dimly lit domestic interior scene.
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B.
Indifference
Indifference is a state of apathy or lack of interest, concern, or emotional involvement toward people, events, or outcomes.
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C.
Melancholy
Melancholy is an 1890s painting by Edvard Munch that portrays a brooding, introspective figure on a shoreline, exemplifying the artist’s exploration of emotional anxiety and existential despair.
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D.
Melancholy
"Melancholy" is a jazz piece famously recorded by New Orleans clarinetist Johnny Dodds, showcasing his expressive and blues-inflected style.
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E.
Dulness
Dulness is the allegorical goddess of stupidity and intellectual decay who presides over the forces of mediocrity in Alexander Pope’s mock-epic poem "The Dunciad."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pixar character
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emotion character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Inside Out 2 ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Riley Andersen ⓘ |
| audienceAssociation | teenage years ⓘ |
| basedOnConcept | ennui ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWorkAppearedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| emotionType |
apathy
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boredom ⓘ disinterest ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Riley’s mind ⓘ |
| franchise | Inside Out ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
family film
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fantasy film ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Inside Out 2 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| medium | computer-animated film ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | boredom ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | new emotion in Riley’s mind ⓘ |
| partOf | Riley’s emotion team ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
apathetic
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bored ⓘ disinterested ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWorkAppearedIn | Walt Disney Pictures ⓘ |
| represents |
teenage apathy
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teenage boredom ⓘ teenage disinterest ⓘ |
| targetAgeGroupRepresented | teenager ⓘ |
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: Ennui Description of subject: Ennui is a new emotion character in Pixar's "Inside Out 2," embodying teenage boredom, apathy, and disinterest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.