Sir Epicure Mammon
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Sir Epicure Mammon is a bombastic, hedonistic nobleman in Ben Jonson’s play *The Alchemist*, obsessed with wealth, luxury, and the promise of alchemical transformation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir Epicure Mammon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16450370 — 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: Sir Epicure Mammon Context triple: [The Alchemist, majorCharacter, Sir Epicure Mammon]
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A.
Marius the Epicurean
Marius the Epicurean is an 1885 philosophical novel by Walter Pater that follows a young Roman’s spiritual and aesthetic development, embodying the principles of literary Aestheticism.
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B.
Erastes
Erastes is a figure from ancient Greek culture typically denoting the older partner in a pederastic relationship, often associated with mentorship and social education of a younger male.
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C.
Trofonio
Trofonio is a legendary figure from ancient Greek lore associated with a mysterious prophetic cave or grotto.
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D.
Charicles
Charicles was an Athenian oligarch and politician who served as one of the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens briefly after the Peloponnesian War.
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E.
Cosmo Cosmolino
Cosmo Cosmolino is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner that blends gritty realism with elements of the supernatural to explore the lives and relationships of a group of inner-city Melbourne characters.
- 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: Sir Epicure Mammon Target entity description: Sir Epicure Mammon is a bombastic, hedonistic nobleman in Ben Jonson’s play *The Alchemist*, obsessed with wealth, luxury, and the promise of alchemical transformation.
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A.
Marius the Epicurean
Marius the Epicurean is an 1885 philosophical novel by Walter Pater that follows a young Roman’s spiritual and aesthetic development, embodying the principles of literary Aestheticism.
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B.
Erastes
Erastes is a figure from ancient Greek culture typically denoting the older partner in a pederastic relationship, often associated with mentorship and social education of a younger male.
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C.
Trofonio
Trofonio is a legendary figure from ancient Greek lore associated with a mysterious prophetic cave or grotto.
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D.
Charicles
Charicles was an Athenian oligarch and politician who served as one of the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens briefly after the Peloponnesian War.
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E.
Cosmo Cosmolino
Cosmo Cosmolino is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner that blends gritty realism with elements of the supernatural to explore the lives and relationships of a group of inner-city Melbourne characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.