Basil March
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Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Basil March canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842909 — 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: Basil March Context triple: [A Hazard of New Fortunes, protagonist, Basil March]
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A.
Charles Belcher
Charles Belcher was an American character actor of the silent film era, known for supporting roles in early 20th-century Hollywood productions.
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B.
Samuel March
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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C.
Felix Graham
Felix Graham is the idealistic young barrister protagonist of Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," noted for his strong moral principles and romantic entanglements.
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D.
Alfred Duckett
Alfred Duckett was an American writer and journalist best known for collaborating with Jackie Robinson on his autobiographical works.
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E.
Adolphus Crosbie
Adolphus Crosbie is a central character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Small House at Allington," known for his charm, social ambition, and morally conflicted romantic entanglements.
- 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: Basil March Target entity description: Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
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A.
Charles Belcher
Charles Belcher was an American character actor of the silent film era, known for supporting roles in early 20th-century Hollywood productions.
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B.
Samuel March
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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C.
Felix Graham
Felix Graham is the idealistic young barrister protagonist of Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," noted for his strong moral principles and romantic entanglements.
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D.
Alfred Duckett
Alfred Duckett was an American writer and journalist best known for collaborating with Jackie Robinson on his autobiographical works.
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E.
Adolphus Crosbie
Adolphus Crosbie is a central character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Small House at Allington," known for his charm, social ambition, and morally conflicted romantic entanglements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| characterTrait | reflective ⓘ |
| creator | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | realism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
mediator of cultural conflicts
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observer of social tensions ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | editor ⓘ |
| previousResidence |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
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| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| role | central character ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th-century New York City ⓘ |
| socialClass | middle class ⓘ |
| spouse | Isabel March ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
American realism
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class conflict ⓘ cultural tensions ⓘ social tensions ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
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: Basil March Description of subject: Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.