Marcus Macauley
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Marcus Macauley is the young protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," through whose experiences the story explores themes of family, loss, and coming of age in small-town America during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcus Macauley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4307964 — 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: Marcus Macauley Context triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Marcus Macauley]
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A.
James Lewis Macie
James Lewis Macie, better known as James Smithson, was the British scientist and philanthropist whose bequest founded the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.
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B.
Ulysses Macauley
Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
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C.
Zachary Macaulay
Zachary Macaulay was a British colonial administrator, prominent abolitionist, and key member of the evangelical reform movement that campaigned against the transatlantic slave trade in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Adam MacDougall
Adam MacDougall is a former Australian rugby league footballer best known as a powerful centre and winger who represented both New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
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E.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
- 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: Marcus Macauley Target entity description: Marcus Macauley is the young protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," through whose experiences the story explores themes of family, loss, and coming of age in small-town America during World War II.
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A.
James Lewis Macie
James Lewis Macie, better known as James Smithson, was the British scientist and philanthropist whose bequest founded the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.
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B.
Ulysses Macauley
Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
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C.
Zachary Macaulay
Zachary Macaulay was a British colonial administrator, prominent abolitionist, and key member of the evangelical reform movement that campaigned against the transatlantic slave trade in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Adam MacDougall
Adam MacDougall is a former Australian rugby league footballer best known as a powerful centre and winger who represented both New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
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E.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Human Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
brotherhood
ⓘ
grief ⓘ responsibility ⓘ war and its impact on families ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Saroyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Human Comedy universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Human Comedy (1943) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Macauley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Marcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHomeEnvironment | working-class family ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Bess Macauley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mrs. Macauley NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulysses Macauley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
protagonist
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young protagonist ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Homer Macauley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
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family ⓘ loss ⓘ |
| livesIn | Ithaca, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | explores themes of family, loss, and coming of age ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| settingPeriod | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingType | small-town America ⓘ |
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: Marcus Macauley Description of subject: Marcus Macauley is the young protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," through whose experiences the story explores themes of family, loss, and coming of age in small-town America during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.