Simon Legree
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Simon Legree is the brutal, sadistic slave owner who serves as the primary antagonist in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Legree canonical | 2 |
| Jim (temporarily, as a captured runaway slave) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T394571 — 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: Simon Legree Context triple: [Uncle Tom's Cabin, mainCharacter, Simon Legree]
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A.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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B.
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller was a 19th-century Canadian-born architect best known for designing major public buildings in North America, including prominent government structures.
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C.
Pap Finn
Pap Finn is the abusive, alcoholic father of Huck Finn in Mark Twain's novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," representing ignorance, racism, and the darker side of frontier society.
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D.
Moses the Black
Moses the Black was a 4th-century Ethiopian desert monk and former bandit who became a renowned Christian ascetic and saint among the Desert Fathers.
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E.
Miss Watson
Miss Watson is a strict, religious woman who serves as Huck Finn’s guardian and represents conventional society’s moral values in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- 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: Simon Legree Target entity description: Simon Legree is the brutal, sadistic slave owner who serves as the primary antagonist in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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A.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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B.
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller was a 19th-century Canadian-born architect best known for designing major public buildings in North America, including prominent government structures.
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C.
Pap Finn
Pap Finn is the abusive, alcoholic father of Huck Finn in Mark Twain's novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," representing ignorance, racism, and the darker side of frontier society.
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D.
Moses the Black
Moses the Black was a 4th-century Ethiopian desert monk and former bandit who became a renowned Christian ascetic and saint among the Desert Fathers.
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E.
Miss Watson
Miss Watson is a strict, religious woman who serves as Huck Finn’s guardian and represents conventional society’s moral values in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary villain ⓘ slave owner ⓘ |
| alignment | antagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
abuse of power
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moral degradation ⓘ racism ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| characterInGenre | anti-slavery novel ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
blasphemous
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greedy ⓘ sadistic ⓘ tyrannical ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| createdBy | Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | name used as byword for cruel taskmaster ⓘ |
| employs | overseers Sambo and Quimbo ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | non-historical character ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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surface form:
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| influencedPerceptionOf | slave owners in popular imagination ⓘ |
| kills |
Uncle Tom
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surface form:
Uncle Tom (indirectly, through ordered beating)
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction | foil to Christian virtues of Uncle Tom ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| morality | evil ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
alcohol abuse
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brutality ⓘ extreme cruelty ⓘ religious cynicism ⓘ sadism ⓘ |
| occupation | plantation owner ⓘ |
| ordersBeatingOf | Uncle Tom ⓘ |
| owns | plantation in Louisiana ⓘ |
| purchases |
Uncle Tom
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other enslaved people ⓘ |
| religiousAttitude |
hostile to Christianity
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mocks Christian faith of slaves ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| setInLocation |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
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| symbolizes |
the cruelty of slavery
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the moral corruption of slaveholders ⓘ unrestrained power and tyranny ⓘ |
| treats | slaves with violence ⓘ |
| whips | Uncle Tom ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1852 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Simon Legree Description of subject: Simon Legree is the brutal, sadistic slave owner who serves as the primary antagonist in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jim (temporarily, as a captured runaway slave)