Major Tetley
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Major Tetley is a stern, authoritarian former Confederate officer in the novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," whose rigid sense of honor and leadership in a lynch mob drive much of the story’s moral conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Tetley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13912029 — 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: Major Tetley Context triple: [The Ox-Bow Incident, mainCharacter, Major Tetley]
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Stanley Mills
Stanley Mills is a historic complex of former cotton mills on the River Tay in Stanley, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, now preserved as a heritage and visitor attraction.
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B.
Buckland Brewer
Buckland Brewer is a small rural village and civil parish in Devon, England, known for its historic church and traditional West Country character.
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C.
Arthur Treacher
Arthur Treacher was an English character actor best known for his portrayals of dignified butlers in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s and later as the namesake of the Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips restaurant chain.
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D.
Wenman Coke
Wenman Coke was an 18th-century British landowner and politician from the prominent Coke family, associated with Holkham Hall in Norfolk.
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E.
Jonathan Guinness
Jonathan Guinness is a British aristocrat, businessman, and writer, known as the 3rd Baron Moyne and a member of the prominent Guinness family.
- 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: Major Tetley Target entity description: Major Tetley is a stern, authoritarian former Confederate officer in the novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," whose rigid sense of honor and leadership in a lynch mob drive much of the story’s moral conflict.
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A.
Stanley Mills
Stanley Mills is a historic complex of former cotton mills on the River Tay in Stanley, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, now preserved as a heritage and visitor attraction.
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B.
Buckland Brewer
Buckland Brewer is a small rural village and civil parish in Devon, England, known for its historic church and traditional West Country character.
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C.
Arthur Treacher
Arthur Treacher was an English character actor best known for his portrayals of dignified butlers in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s and later as the namesake of the Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips restaurant chain.
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D.
Wenman Coke
Wenman Coke was an 18th-century British landowner and politician from the prominent Coke family, associated with Holkham Hall in Norfolk.
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E.
Jonathan Guinness
Jonathan Guinness is a British aristocrat, businessman, and writer, known as the 3rd Baron Moyne and a member of the prominent Guinness family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Ox-Bow Incident