Nina Gordon
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Nina Gordon is the young, idealistic Southern heiress who serves as a central figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nina Gordon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T487620 — 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: Nina Gordon Context triple: [Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, mainCharacter, Nina Gordon]
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A.
Nina Davis
Nina Davis is an American basketball player best known as a standout forward for the Baylor Lady Bears, where she earned multiple All-American honors and led the team to deep NCAA Tournament runs.
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B.
Lisa Rogers
Lisa Rogers is a member of the Rogers family, known as the daughter of Canadian businessman and media magnate Ted Rogers.
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C.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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D.
Nina Bernstein
Nina Bernstein is the daughter of renowned American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, known for helping preserve and promote her father's musical legacy.
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- 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: Nina Gordon Target entity description: Nina Gordon is the young, idealistic Southern heiress who serves as a central figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp."
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A.
Nina Davis
Nina Davis is an American basketball player best known as a standout forward for the Baylor Lady Bears, where she earned multiple All-American honors and led the team to deep NCAA Tournament runs.
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B.
Lisa Rogers
Lisa Rogers is a member of the Rogers family, known as the daughter of Canadian businessman and media magnate Ted Rogers.
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C.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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D.
Nina Bernstein
Nina Bernstein is the daughter of renowned American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, known for helping preserve and promote her father's musical legacy.
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E.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
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| associatedWithTheme |
Southern plantation society
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abolitionism ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| characterIn | Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp ⓘ |
| createdBy | Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ |
| describedAs |
Southern
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heiress ⓘ idealistic ⓘ young ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFamilyBackground | slaveholding family ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus |
plantation heiress
ⓘ
upper class ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| moralCharacteristic |
conflicted about slavery
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sympathetic to enslaved people ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodies moral awakening about slavery
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represents Southern white womanhood ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| partOfWorkGenre | anti-slavery novel ⓘ |
| publicationContext |
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
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surface form:
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856 novel)
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| roleInWork | central figure ⓘ |
| setIn | pre–American Civil War United States ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Nina Gordon Description of subject: Nina Gordon is the young, idealistic Southern heiress who serves as a central figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.