Dr. Austin Sloper
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Dr. Austin Sloper is a wealthy, sharp-tongued New York physician in Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," known for his cold, ironic treatment of his daughter Catherine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dr. Austin Sloper canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2674865 — 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: Dr. Austin Sloper Context triple: [Washington Square, mainCharacter, Dr. Austin Sloper]
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A.
Catherine Sloper
Catherine Sloper is the shy, plain, and emotionally vulnerable heiress at the center of Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," whose strained relationship with her domineering father shapes her tragic romantic fate.
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B.
Irene Lapham
Irene Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," embodying the emotional and social complexities of a young woman in post–Civil War Boston society.
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C.
Phoebe Pyncheon
Phoebe Pyncheon is a bright, kind-hearted young woman in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The House of the Seven Gables," whose warmth and optimism help redeem her troubled family’s dark legacy.
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D.
Henrietta Litchfield
Henrietta Litchfield was an English editor and daughter of Charles Darwin, known for compiling and publishing her father's letters and biographical materials.
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E.
Victorine Haven Putnam
Victorine Haven Putnam was the first wife of American publisher and explorer George Palmer Putnam, connected to the prominent Putnam publishing family.
- 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: Dr. Austin Sloper Target entity description: Dr. Austin Sloper is a wealthy, sharp-tongued New York physician in Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," known for his cold, ironic treatment of his daughter Catherine.
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A.
Catherine Sloper
Catherine Sloper is the shy, plain, and emotionally vulnerable heiress at the center of Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," whose strained relationship with her domineering father shapes her tragic romantic fate.
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B.
Irene Lapham
Irene Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," embodying the emotional and social complexities of a young woman in post–Civil War Boston society.
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C.
Phoebe Pyncheon
Phoebe Pyncheon is a bright, kind-hearted young woman in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The House of the Seven Gables," whose warmth and optimism help redeem her troubled family’s dark legacy.
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D.
Henrietta Litchfield
Henrietta Litchfield was an English editor and daughter of Charles Darwin, known for compiling and publishing her father's letters and biographical materials.
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E.
Victorine Haven Putnam
Victorine Haven Putnam was the first wife of American publisher and explorer George Palmer Putnam, connected to the prominent Putnam publishing family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Dr. Austin Sloper Description of subject: Dr. Austin Sloper is a wealthy, sharp-tongued New York physician in Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," known for his cold, ironic treatment of his daughter Catherine.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Catherine Sloper
subject surface form:
Catherine Sloper
subject surface form:
Catherine Sloper
subject surface form:
Morris Townsend
subject surface form:
Morris Townsend
subject surface form:
Morris Townsend