Mr. Shaw
E400152
Mr. Shaw is a wealthy, conservative Boston businessman who serves as the head of the household and a symbol of traditional values in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Shaw canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3912751 — 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: Mr. Shaw Context triple: [An Old-Fashioned Girl, mainCharacter, Mr. Shaw]
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A.
Mr. Porter
Mr. Porter is an American hip-hop producer and rapper best known as a longtime member of D12 and frequent collaborator of Eminem.
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B.
Mr. McFeely
Mr. McFeely is the speedy, friendly delivery man on the children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," known for his catchphrase "Speedy Delivery!"
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C.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
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D.
John Shaw
John Shaw is a musician best known as a member of the American noise rock band Magik Markers.
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E.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
- 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: Mr. Shaw Target entity description: Mr. Shaw is a wealthy, conservative Boston businessman who serves as the head of the household and a symbol of traditional values in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl."
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A.
Mr. Porter
Mr. Porter is an American hip-hop producer and rapper best known as a longtime member of D12 and frequent collaborator of Eminem.
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B.
Mr. McFeely
Mr. McFeely is the speedy, friendly delivery man on the children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," known for his catchphrase "Speedy Delivery!"
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C.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
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D.
John Shaw
John Shaw is a musician best known as a member of the American noise rock band Magik Markers.
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E.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | An Old-Fashioned Girl ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
19th-century American literature
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domestic fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
conservatism
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family life ⓘ social class ⓘ tradition versus change ⓘ wealth and privilege ⓘ |
| createdBy | Louisa May Alcott ⓘ |
| economicStatus | wealthy ⓘ |
| familyName | Shaw family ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1869 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSocialRole |
patriarch
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provider ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
Victorian era
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surface form:
Victorian era (American context)
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| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation | conservative ⓘ |
| residence | Boston ⓘ |
| roleInFamily | head of household ⓘ |
| settingOfCharacter | 19th-century Boston ⓘ |
| symbolizes | traditional values ⓘ |
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: Mr. Shaw Description of subject: Mr. Shaw is a wealthy, conservative Boston businessman who serves as the head of the household and a symbol of traditional values in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.