Louis Trevelyan
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Louis Trevelyan is the increasingly jealous and obsessive central figure of Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," whose suspicions and stubborn pride lead to the destruction of his marriage and happiness.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Louis Trevelyan canonical | 5 |
| Louis Trevelyan Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1186120 — 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: Louis Trevelyan Context triple: [He Knew He Was Right, protagonist, Louis Trevelyan]
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A.
Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
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B.
Leo Amery
Leo Amery was a prominent British Conservative politician and journalist who served in several key government posts during the early to mid-20th century, particularly noted for his role in imperial and wartime policy.
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C.
John Arbuthnot Fisher
John Arbuthnot Fisher was a British Admiral of the Fleet and naval reformer who modernized the Royal Navy in the early 20th century.
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D.
Charles Spencer Crowe
Charles Spencer Crowe is one of the sons of New Zealand-born actor and filmmaker Russell Crowe.
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E.
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist known for his influential writings on race, gender, and the biological basis of human behavior.
- 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: Louis Trevelyan Target entity description: Louis Trevelyan is the increasingly jealous and obsessive central figure of Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," whose suspicions and stubborn pride lead to the destruction of his marriage and happiness.
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A.
Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
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B.
Leo Amery
Leo Amery was a prominent British Conservative politician and journalist who served in several key government posts during the early to mid-20th century, particularly noted for his role in imperial and wartime policy.
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C.
John Arbuthnot Fisher
John Arbuthnot Fisher was a British Admiral of the Fleet and naval reformer who modernized the Royal Navy in the early 20th century.
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D.
Charles Spencer Crowe
Charles Spencer Crowe is one of the sons of New Zealand-born actor and filmmaker Russell Crowe.
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E.
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist known for his influential writings on race, gender, and the biological basis of human behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | He Knew He Was Right ⓘ |
| causeOf |
destruction of his marriage
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estrangement from his wife ⓘ loss of personal happiness ⓘ |
| centralConflict | jealousy over his wife’s association with Colonel Osborne ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
jealous
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obsessive ⓘ proud ⓘ stubborn ⓘ |
| createdBy | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| experiences |
mental deterioration
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paranoia ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | He Knew He Was Right (1869) ⓘ |
| genre | Victorian literature character ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Louis Trevelyan
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Louis Trevelyan Jr.
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| marriedTo | Emily Trevelyan ⓘ |
| mistrusts | Colonel Osborne ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives the plot through escalating jealousy ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | English gentleman ⓘ |
| role | protagonist ⓘ |
| setting |
Victorian era
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surface form:
Victorian England
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| suspects | Emily Trevelyan of infidelity ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
jealousy
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male pride ⓘ marital breakdown ⓘ social reputation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Louis Trevelyan Description of subject: Louis Trevelyan is the increasingly jealous and obsessive central figure of Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," whose suspicions and stubborn pride lead to the destruction of his marriage and happiness.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Louis Trevelyan Jr.