Mr. Wickfield
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Mr. Wickfield is a respected but increasingly troubled lawyer and father in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," whose weakness is exploited by his obsequious clerk Uriah Heep.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Wickfield canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15039020 — 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: Mr. Wickfield Context triple: [Uriah Heep, employer, Mr. Wickfield]
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A.
Wemmick
Wemmick is a clerk in Mr. Jaggers’s law office in Charles Dickens’s novel "Great Expectations," known for his split personality between his dry, businesslike demeanor at work and his warm, eccentric life at his miniature "castle" home.
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B.
Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit is a satirical novel by Charles Dickens that follows the misadventures of its selfish title character and offers a biting critique of greed and hypocrisy in Victorian society.
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C.
Sam Weller
Sam Weller is a quick-witted, resourceful servant and loyal companion to Mr. Pickwick in Charles Dickens’s novel "The Pickwick Papers."
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D.
Wilkins Micawber
Wilkins Micawber is a famously optimistic, debt-ridden character in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," known for his catchphrase that "something will turn up."
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E.
Samuel Pickwick
Samuel Pickwick is the benevolent, somewhat eccentric founder of the Pickwick Club in Charles Dickens's novel "The Pickwick Papers," known for his humorous adventures and keen but kindly observations of Victorian society.
- 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: Mr. Wickfield Target entity description: Mr. Wickfield is a respected but increasingly troubled lawyer and father in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," whose weakness is exploited by his obsequious clerk Uriah Heep.
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A.
Wemmick
Wemmick is a clerk in Mr. Jaggers’s law office in Charles Dickens’s novel "Great Expectations," known for his split personality between his dry, businesslike demeanor at work and his warm, eccentric life at his miniature "castle" home.
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B.
Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit is a satirical novel by Charles Dickens that follows the misadventures of its selfish title character and offers a biting critique of greed and hypocrisy in Victorian society.
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C.
Sam Weller
Sam Weller is a quick-witted, resourceful servant and loyal companion to Mr. Pickwick in Charles Dickens’s novel "The Pickwick Papers."
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D.
Wilkins Micawber
Wilkins Micawber is a famously optimistic, debt-ridden character in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," known for his catchphrase that "something will turn up."
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E.
Samuel Pickwick
Samuel Pickwick is the benevolent, somewhat eccentric founder of the Pickwick Club in Charles Dickens's novel "The Pickwick Papers," known for his humorous adventures and keen but kindly observations of Victorian society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.