the Beaver
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The Beaver is a timid yet resourceful creature and one of the central, comically earnest characters in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Beaver | 2 |
| the Beaver canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11950179 — 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 Beaver Context triple: [The Hunting of the Snark, featuresCharacter, the Beaver]
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A.
The Beaver
The Beaver is a 2011 drama film starring Mel Gibson as a depressed man who begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet, directed by Jodie Foster.
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B.
Beaver
Beaver was one of the British ships in Boston Harbor whose tea cargo was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party protest in 1773.
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C.
Beaver
The Beaver is the official mascot of the California Institute of Technology, symbolizing the school’s emphasis on engineering, ingenuity, and industriousness.
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D.
Beaver
Beaver is a small town in the Oklahoma Panhandle known for serving as the county seat of Beaver County and for its rural, agricultural character.
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E.
Beaver
Beaver is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia, known for its residential character and proximity to the city of Beckley.
- 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 Beaver Target entity description: The Beaver is a timid yet resourceful creature and one of the central, comically earnest characters in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark."
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A.
The Beaver
The Beaver is a 2011 drama film starring Mel Gibson as a depressed man who begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet, directed by Jodie Foster.
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B.
Beaver
The Beaver is the official mascot of the California Institute of Technology, symbolizing the school’s emphasis on engineering, ingenuity, and industriousness.
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C.
Beaver
Beaver is a small town in the Oklahoma Panhandle known for serving as the county seat of Beaver County and for its rural, agricultural character.
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D.
Beaver
Beaver is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia, known for its residential character and proximity to the city of Beckley.
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E.
Beaver
Beaver is a small borough in western Pennsylvania that serves as the administrative and commercial center of Beaver County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: the Beaver
linked to: the Beaver