Jacob Dryfoos
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Jacob Dryfoos is a wealthy, self-made businessman in William Dean Howells’s novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," whose ambitions and values drive much of the story’s social and moral conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Dryfoos canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842915 — 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: Jacob Dryfoos Context triple: [A Hazard of New Fortunes, character, Jacob Dryfoos]
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A.
Jack McKinney
Jack McKinney was an American basketball coach best known for his innovative offensive schemes and for laying the groundwork for the "Showtime" era of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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B.
Joshua Kraft
Joshua Kraft is a member of the prominent Kraft family, known for their leadership of the New England Patriots and extensive business and philanthropic activities.
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C.
James Kuffner
James Kuffner is an American roboticist and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in motion planning and for leadership roles at Google and Toyota in robotics and autonomous systems.
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D.
Connor Jessup
Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor and filmmaker best known for his roles in the TV series "Falling Skies" and "Locke & Key."
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E.
John Pleffer
John Pleffer is an Australian architect best known as the husband of acclaimed film director Gillian Armstrong.
- 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: Jacob Dryfoos Target entity description: Jacob Dryfoos is a wealthy, self-made businessman in William Dean Howells’s novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," whose ambitions and values drive much of the story’s social and moral conflict.
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A.
Jack McKinney
Jack McKinney was an American basketball coach best known for his innovative offensive schemes and for laying the groundwork for the "Showtime" era of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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B.
Joshua Kraft
Joshua Kraft is a member of the prominent Kraft family, known for their leadership of the New England Patriots and extensive business and philanthropic activities.
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C.
James Kuffner
James Kuffner is an American roboticist and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in motion planning and for leadership roles at Google and Toyota in robotics and autonomous systems.
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D.
Connor Jessup
Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor and filmmaker best known for his roles in the TV series "Falling Skies" and "Locke & Key."
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E.
John Pleffer
John Pleffer is an Australian architect best known as the husband of acclaimed film director Gillian Armstrong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessman
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| characterFunction | embodiment of Gilded Age capitalism ⓘ |
| characterType | self-made capitalist ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| drives |
moral conflict in A Hazard of New Fortunes
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social conflict in A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1890s ⓘ |
| hasAmbition |
economic success
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social power ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
Realism
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surface form:
American realism
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| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central figure in moral conflict
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central figure in social conflict ⓘ major character ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
self-made
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wealthy ⓘ |
| valueSystem |
capitalist values
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materialism ⓘ |
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: Jacob Dryfoos Description of subject: Jacob Dryfoos is a wealthy, self-made businessman in William Dean Howells’s novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," whose ambitions and values drive much of the story’s social and moral conflict.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.