Casaubon
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Casaubon is the introspective narrator and scholar in Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum," who becomes entangled in an elaborate conspiracy involving secret societies and esoteric knowledge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Casaubon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13822315 — 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: Casaubon Context triple: [Foucault's Pendulum, mainCharacter, Casaubon]
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A.
Sebaldus Nothanker
Sebaldus Nothanker is a satirical novel by Friedrich Nicolai that critiques religious hypocrisy and social conditions in late 18th-century Germany.
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B.
Pierre Menard
Pierre Menard was an early 19th-century American politician and fur trader who became a prominent leader in the Illinois Territory and later the state of Illinois.
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C.
Edward Casaubon
Edward Casaubon is a pedantic, aging scholar in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," best known as Dorothea Brooke’s ill-suited husband whose futile intellectual ambitions and emotional coldness drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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D.
Gulielmus Occamus
Gulielmus Occamus is the Latin name of William of Ockham, a medieval English Franciscan friar, philosopher, and theologian best known for formulating the principle now called Occam’s razor.
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E.
Avenzoar
Avenzoar, also known as Ibn Zuhr, was a prominent 12th-century Andalusian physician and surgeon whose clinical observations significantly advanced medieval medicine.
- 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: Casaubon Target entity description: Casaubon is the introspective narrator and scholar in Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum," who becomes entangled in an elaborate conspiracy involving secret societies and esoteric knowledge.
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A.
Sebaldus Nothanker
Sebaldus Nothanker is a satirical novel by Friedrich Nicolai that critiques religious hypocrisy and social conditions in late 18th-century Germany.
-
B.
Pierre Menard
Pierre Menard was an early 19th-century American politician and fur trader who became a prominent leader in the Illinois Territory and later the state of Illinois.
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C.
Edward Casaubon
Edward Casaubon is a pedantic, aging scholar in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," best known as Dorothea Brooke’s ill-suited husband whose futile intellectual ambitions and emotional coldness drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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D.
Gulielmus Occamus
Gulielmus Occamus is the Latin name of William of Ockham, a medieval English Franciscan friar, philosopher, and theologian best known for formulating the principle now called Occam’s razor.
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E.
Avenzoar
Avenzoar, also known as Ibn Zuhr, was a prominent 12th-century Andalusian physician and surgeon whose clinical observations significantly advanced medieval medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.