Augustus Landor
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Augustus Landor is a brooding, retired detective whose investigation into a series of grisly murders at West Point drives the gothic mystery of *The Pale Blue Eye*.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augustus Landor canonical | 2 |
| Augustus Landor (character from Louis Bayard novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3753620 — 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: Augustus Landor Context triple: [The Pale Blue Eye, mainCharacter, Augustus Landor]
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A.
Francis Grose
Francis Grose was an 18th-century British antiquary, draughtsman, and author best known for his illustrated works on ancient monuments and his influential slang dictionary.
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B.
Thomas Archer
Thomas Archer was a prominent early 18th-century English Baroque architect known for his dynamic church designs and grand country houses.
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C.
George Carpenter
George Carpenter was a British Army officer and Whig politician best known for his role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715 and later being created Baron Carpenter.
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D.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
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E.
William Collins
William Collins was a Scottish publisher and founder of the notable publishing house William Collins, Sons, which later became part of HarperCollins.
- 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: Augustus Landor Target entity description: Augustus Landor is a brooding, retired detective whose investigation into a series of grisly murders at West Point drives the gothic mystery of *The Pale Blue Eye*.
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A.
Francis Grose
Francis Grose was an 18th-century British antiquary, draughtsman, and author best known for his illustrated works on ancient monuments and his influential slang dictionary.
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B.
Thomas Archer
Thomas Archer was a prominent early 18th-century English Baroque architect known for his dynamic church designs and grand country houses.
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C.
George Carpenter
George Carpenter was a British Army officer and Whig politician best known for his role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715 and later being created Baron Carpenter.
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D.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
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E.
William Collins
William Collins was a Scottish publisher and founder of the notable publishing house William Collins, Sons, which later became part of HarperCollins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Augustus Landor Description of subject: Augustus Landor is a brooding, retired detective whose investigation into a series of grisly murders at West Point drives the gothic mystery of *The Pale Blue Eye*.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Augustus Landor (character from Louis Bayard novel)