Minnie Cotton
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Minnie Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, known as one of Rosie Cotton’s sisters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnie Cotton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11152015 — 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: Minnie Cotton Context triple: [Rosie Cotton, sibling, Minnie Cotton]
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A.
Minnie McCoy
Minnie McCoy, better known as Memphis Minnie, was a pioneering and influential American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter active from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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B.
Minnie Mennen Williams
Minnie Mennen Williams was a member of the prominent Mennen family and the mother of longtime Michigan governor and U.S. diplomat G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams.
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C.
Gladys Sweet
Gladys Sweet was one of the African American defendants prosecuted alongside her husband in the landmark Ossian Sweet trial, a pivotal civil rights case challenging racial housing segregation in 1920s Detroit.
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D.
Minnie Pearson Dow
Minnie Pearson Dow was the wife of American painter and influential art educator Arthur Wesley Dow, likely involved in the artistic and cultural circles surrounding his career.
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E.
Maxine Roby
Maxine Roby is a central forensic crime lab leader in the television series "CSI: Vegas," known for her sharp investigative skills and authoritative presence.
- 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: Minnie Cotton Target entity description: Minnie Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, known as one of Rosie Cotton’s sisters.
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A.
Minnie McCoy
Minnie McCoy, better known as Memphis Minnie, was a pioneering and influential American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter active from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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B.
Minnie Mennen Williams
Minnie Mennen Williams was a member of the prominent Mennen family and the mother of longtime Michigan governor and U.S. diplomat G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams.
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C.
Gladys Sweet
Gladys Sweet was one of the African American defendants prosecuted alongside her husband in the landmark Ossian Sweet trial, a pivotal civil rights case challenging racial housing segregation in 1920s Detroit.
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D.
Minnie Pearson Dow
Minnie Pearson Dow was the wife of American painter and influential art educator Arthur Wesley Dow, likely involved in the artistic and cultural circles surrounding his career.
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E.
Maxine Roby
Maxine Roby is a central forensic crime lab leader in the television series "CSI: Vegas," known for her sharp investigative skills and authoritative presence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional character
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Hobbit ⓘ Shire-hobbit ⓘ |
| appearsInUniverse |
The Lord of the Rings legendarium
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linked to:
legendarium of Middle-earth
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| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| culture |
Shire-hobbits
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linked to:
Hobbits
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| ethnicity |
Hobbit-kind
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linked to:
Hobbits
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| familyName | Cotton ⓘ |
| gender | Female ⓘ |
| homeRegion | The Shire ⓘ |
| race | Hobbit ⓘ |
| sibling | Rosie Cotton ⓘ |
| universe | Middle-earth ⓘ |
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: Minnie Cotton Description of subject: Minnie Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, known as one of Rosie Cotton’s sisters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.