Cora Tull
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Cora Tull is a deeply religious, judgmental neighbor in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," serving as a moral commentator on the Bundren family’s actions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cora Tull canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3632768 — 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: Cora Tull Context triple: [As I Lay Dying, hasCharacter, Cora Tull]
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A.
Cora Parsons
Cora Parsons was an American socialite best known for her high-profile marriage to New Jersey politician and businessman John Dryden Kuser.
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B.
Cora Peterson
Cora Peterson is a key protagonist in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage," serving as a skilled and resourceful member of the miniaturized medical team sent inside a human body.
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C.
Cora Crane
Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
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D.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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E.
Celia Ladd
Celia Ladd is the wife of acclaimed film director and screenwriter John Huston.
- 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: Cora Tull Target entity description: Cora Tull is a deeply religious, judgmental neighbor in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," serving as a moral commentator on the Bundren family’s actions.
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A.
Cora Parsons
Cora Parsons was an American socialite best known for her high-profile marriage to New Jersey politician and businessman John Dryden Kuser.
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B.
Cora Peterson
Cora Peterson is a key protagonist in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage," serving as a skilled and resourceful member of the miniaturized medical team sent inside a human body.
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C.
Cora Crane
Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
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D.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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E.
Celia Ladd
Celia Ladd is the wife of acclaimed film director and screenwriter John Huston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | As I Lay Dying ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | Bundren family ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
critical of others
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deeply religious ⓘ judgmental ⓘ pious ⓘ self-righteous ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | As I Lay Dying universe ⓘ |
| hasPointOfViewChapterIn | As I Lay Dying ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Vernon Tull ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfWork | novel ⓘ |
| moralStanceToward |
Addie Bundren
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Anse Bundren ⓘ Cash Bundren ⓘ Darl Bundren ⓘ Dewey Dell Bundren ⓘ Jewel Bundren ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrasts with Addie Bundren’s more skeptical view of religion
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embodies conventional religious morality ⓘ provides an external perspective on the Bundren family ⓘ |
| occupation | farm wife ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 1930 ⓘ |
| religiousOrientation | Christian ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
moral commentator on the Bundren family’s actions
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neighbor of the Bundren family ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
Yoknapatawpha County
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rural Mississippi ⓘ |
| socialRole | rural neighbor ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre |
Southern Gothic
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modernist novel ⓘ |
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: Cora Tull Description of subject: Cora Tull is a deeply religious, judgmental neighbor in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," serving as a moral commentator on the Bundren family’s actions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.