Don Gately
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Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don Gately canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3675725 — 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: Don Gately Context triple: [Infinite Jest, featuresCharacter, Don Gately]
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A.
Clovis Cole
Clovis Cole was a prominent 19th-century wheat farmer and landowner in California whose holdings and influence in the region led to the nearby city of Clovis being named in his honor.
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B.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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C.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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D.
Ross O’Donovan
Ross O’Donovan is an Irish-Australian animator, voice actor, and internet personality best known for his work on YouTube and as a former member of the Game Grumps channel.
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E.
Sam Grant
Sam Grant is a nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and commanding Union general during the American Civil War.
- 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: Don Gately Target entity description: Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
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A.
Clovis Cole
Clovis Cole was a prominent 19th-century wheat farmer and landowner in California whose holdings and influence in the region led to the nearby city of Clovis being named in his honor.
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B.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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C.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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D.
Ross O’Donovan
Ross O’Donovan is an Irish-Australian animator, voice actor, and internet personality best known for his work on YouTube and as a former member of the Game Grumps channel.
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E.
Sam Grant
Sam Grant is a nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and commanding Union general during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Infinite Jest ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInSetting |
Greater Boston
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surface form:
Greater Boston area
Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alcoholics Anonymous
ⓘ
Narcotics Anonymous ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
ethics of everyday life
ⓘ
recovery ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| creator | David Foster Wallace ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
Infinite Jest
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surface form:
Infinite Jest (1996 novel)
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| formerAddiction |
Demerol
ⓘ
prescription opioids ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | burglar ⓘ |
| genreContext | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasPastEvent |
accidentally killed a man during a burglary
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committed violent crimes while using ⓘ served time in prison ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
guilt-ridden
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ morally reflective ⓘ physically large ⓘ physically strong ⓘ protective ⓘ stoic ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Hal Incandenza
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Joelle Van Dyne ⓘ Pat Montesian ⓘ residents of Ennet House ⓘ |
| livesIn | Boston ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | focus of recovery narrative ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | often focalized through close third-person ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | live-in staffer ⓘ |
| residence | Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
addiction
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moral responsibility ⓘ sobriety ⓘ |
| undergoes |
moral transformation
ⓘ
physical suffering ⓘ spiritual crisis ⓘ |
| worksAt | Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House ⓘ |
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: Don Gately Description of subject: Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.