John Bold
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John Bold is a passionate young reformer in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Warden," whose challenges to church practices drive the story’s central conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Bold canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T872812 — 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: John Bold Context triple: [The Warden, mainCharacter, John Bold]
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A.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
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B.
Cecil
Cecil is a masculine given name most famously associated with pioneering American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
John Billington
John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
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D.
Richmond Valentine
Richmond Valentine is the eccentric billionaire and eco-terrorist villain in the action-spy film "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
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E.
John Hudson
John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
- 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: John Bold Target entity description: John Bold is a passionate young reformer in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Warden," whose challenges to church practices drive the story’s central conflict.
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A.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
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B.
Cecil
Cecil is a masculine given name most famously associated with pioneering American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
John Billington
John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
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D.
Richmond Valentine
Richmond Valentine is the eccentric billionaire and eco-terrorist villain in the action-spy film "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
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E.
John Hudson
John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Warden ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
church reform in Victorian England
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conflict between conscience and affection ⓘ social reform ⓘ |
| challenges |
administration of Hiram’s Hospital
ⓘ
church practices ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
conscientious
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idealistic ⓘ impulsive ⓘ passionate ⓘ |
| characterType | young reformer ⓘ |
| createdBy | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| drives | central conflict of The Warden ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Chronicles of Barsetshire ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Warden ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| initiates | legal inquiry into Hiram’s Hospital income ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| literaryWorkGenre |
ecclesiastical novel
ⓘ
social novel ⓘ |
| moralConflict | duty to truth versus loyalty to friends ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
desire for reform
ⓘ
sense of justice ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
agent of change in Barchester
ⓘ
critic of ecclesiastical privilege ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | reformer ⓘ |
| opposes | Septimus Harding’s financial position at Hiram’s Hospital ⓘ |
| publicationContext |
The Warden
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surface form:
The Warden (1855 novel)
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| relationshipTypeWithSeptimusHarding | friend and antagonist ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
Eleanor Harding
ⓘ
Mr Septimus Harding ⓘ
surface form:
Septimus Harding
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| roleInWork |
major character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Eleanor Harding ⓘ |
| setIn |
Barchester Cathedral
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surface form:
Barchester
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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: John Bold Description of subject: John Bold is a passionate young reformer in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Warden," whose challenges to church practices drive the story’s central conflict.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.