Lawrence Selden
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Lawrence Selden is a socially astute yet morally ambivalent lawyer in Edith Wharton’s novel "The House of Mirth," serving as Lily Bart’s confidant and complicated love interest within New York high society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lawrence Selden canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14552086 — 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: Lawrence Selden Context triple: [Lily Bart, hasRelationshipWith, Lawrence Selden]
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A.
Nathaniel Giles
Nathaniel Giles was an English composer and church musician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his work with the Chapel Royal and involvement in early English theatre music.
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B.
Jervis Langdon
Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
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C.
Lawrence Belmont
Lawrence Belmont is a character from Isaac Asimov’s science fiction short story “Satisfaction Guaranteed,” which explores human-robot relationships and emotional complexity.
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D.
Robert Coddington
Robert Coddington is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Coddington surname.
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E.
Ralph Kercheval
Ralph Kercheval was an American football halfback and placekicker of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for his versatile backfield play and kicking in the National Football League.
- 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: Lawrence Selden Target entity description: Lawrence Selden is a socially astute yet morally ambivalent lawyer in Edith Wharton’s novel "The House of Mirth," serving as Lily Bart’s confidant and complicated love interest within New York high society.
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A.
Nathaniel Giles
Nathaniel Giles was an English composer and church musician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his work with the Chapel Royal and involvement in early English theatre music.
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B.
Jervis Langdon
Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
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C.
Lawrence Belmont
Lawrence Belmont is a character from Isaac Asimov’s science fiction short story “Satisfaction Guaranteed,” which explores human-robot relationships and emotional complexity.
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D.
Robert Coddington
Robert Coddington is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Coddington surname.
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E.
Ralph Kercheval
Ralph Kercheval was an American football halfback and placekicker of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for his versatile backfield play and kicking in the National Football League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lily Bart