Jonathan Small
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Jonathan Small is a vengeful, one-legged antagonist in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of Four," whose backstory of betrayal and lost treasure drives the mystery’s central plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Small canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10086601 — 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: Jonathan Small Context triple: [The Sign of Four, featuresCharacter, Jonathan Small]
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A.
Michael Small
Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
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B.
Edward Small
Edward Small was a prolific American film producer best known for his work on numerous low- to mid-budget Hollywood features from the 1920s through the 1960s.
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C.
Ian Little
Ian Little is a British record producer best known for his work with the band Duran Duran during the early 1980s.
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D.
Paul Small
Paul Small was the husband of American film actress Estelle Taylor, known primarily in relation to her personal life.
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E.
Jack Feore
Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
- 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: Jonathan Small Target entity description: Jonathan Small is a vengeful, one-legged antagonist in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of Four," whose backstory of betrayal and lost treasure drives the mystery’s central plot.
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A.
Michael Small
Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
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B.
Edward Small
Edward Small was a prolific American film producer best known for his work on numerous low- to mid-budget Hollywood features from the 1920s through the 1960s.
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C.
Ian Little
Ian Little is a British record producer best known for his work with the band Duran Duran during the early 1980s.
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D.
Paul Small
Paul Small was the husband of American film actress Estelle Taylor, known primarily in relation to her personal life.
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E.
Jack Feore
Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Sherlock Holmes series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Sign of Four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | The Great Agra Treasure (backstory chapter in The Sign of Four) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Agra treasure ⓘ |
| backstory | betrayed after helping steal the Agra treasure ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
Inspector Athelney Jones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confessesTo |
Dr. John Watson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Bartholomew Sholto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Sholto NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Sign of Four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsAllianceWith |
Abdullah Khan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dost Akbar NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahomet Singh NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | detective fiction character ⓘ |
| hasAlias | none commonly used ⓘ |
| hasDisability | wooden leg ⓘ |
| hasMoralView | believes his vengeance is justified ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalCharacteristic | one-legged ⓘ |
| hasTrait | vengeful ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn | Andaman Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn | murder of Bartholomew Sholto ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| losesLegIn | crocodile attack ⓘ |
| motive |
recovery of lost treasure
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives central mystery of The Sign of Four ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | convict ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pursuedBy |
Inspector Athelney Jones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | antagonist ⓘ |
| seeksRevengeOn |
Bartholomew Sholto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Major Sholto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | Indian army (as a soldier before becoming a convict) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfBackstory | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyResolution | arrested and imprisoned at end of The Sign of Four ⓘ |
| throwsIntoRiver | Agra treasure ⓘ |
| transportMethod | boat Aurora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| travelsTo | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Small Description of subject: Jonathan Small is a vengeful, one-legged antagonist in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of Four," whose backstory of betrayal and lost treasure drives the mystery’s central plot.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.