Harry Gordon
E437390
Harry Gordon is a central character in Willa Cather’s novel "Lucy Gayheart," a successful but emotionally conflicted businessman whose relationship with the title character shapes much of the story’s tragedy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Gordon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423585 — 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: Harry Gordon Context triple: [Lucy Gayheart, hasCharacter, Harry Gordon]
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A.
Christopher Gordon
Christopher Gordon is an Australian composer best known for his orchestral film scores, including his acclaimed work on "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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B.
Howard Gould
Howard Gould was an American financier and yachtsman from the prominent Gould family, known for his wealth, high-society lifestyle, and involvement in railroad and financial enterprises.
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C.
James Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and was previously the long-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair.
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D.
Edward James Harland
Edward James Harland was a 19th-century British shipbuilder and industrialist best known as a co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff.
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E.
Robert Harron
Robert Harron was a prominent American silent film actor of the 1910s, best known for his frequent collaborations with director D. W. Griffith.
- 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: Harry Gordon Target entity description: Harry Gordon is a central character in Willa Cather’s novel "Lucy Gayheart," a successful but emotionally conflicted businessman whose relationship with the title character shapes much of the story’s tragedy.
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A.
Christopher Gordon
Christopher Gordon is an Australian composer best known for his orchestral film scores, including his acclaimed work on "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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B.
Howard Gould
Howard Gould was an American financier and yachtsman from the prominent Gould family, known for his wealth, high-society lifestyle, and involvement in railroad and financial enterprises.
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C.
James Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and was previously the long-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair.
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D.
Edward James Harland
Edward James Harland was a 19th-century British shipbuilder and industrialist best known as a co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff.
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E.
Robert Harron
Robert Harron was a prominent American silent film actor of the 1910s, best known for his frequent collaborations with director D. W. Griffith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lucy Gayheart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
emotional repression
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love ⓘ regret ⓘ small-town life ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| authorNationality | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | central character ⓘ |
| createdBy | Willa Cather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotionalState | emotionally conflicted ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Lucy Gayheart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | literary fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives much of the story’s tragedy ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Lucy Gayheart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Haverford, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | successful ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1935 ⓘ |
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: Harry Gordon Description of subject: Harry Gordon is a central character in Willa Cather’s novel "Lucy Gayheart," a successful but emotionally conflicted businessman whose relationship with the title character shapes much of the story’s tragedy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.