Augustine St. Clare
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Augustine St. Clare is a wealthy, conflicted New Orleans slave owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," whose moral ambivalence and eventual change of heart highlight the cruelties of slavery.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Augustine St. Clare canonical | 10 |
| St. Clare | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T394570 — 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: Augustine St. Clare Context triple: [Uncle Tom's Cabin, mainCharacter, Augustine St. Clare]
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A.
Eva St. Clare
Eva St. Clare is a gentle, angelic young girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," symbolizing Christian compassion and moral purity.
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B.
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."
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C.
Ashley Wilkes
Ashley Wilkes is a central fictional character in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," portrayed as the honorable yet emotionally conflicted Southern gentleman who is the object of Scarlett O'Hara's unrequited love.
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D.
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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E.
Aunt Sally Phelps
Aunt Sally Phelps is a kind but strict Southern woman who serves as Tom Sawyer’s aunt and mistakenly takes Huck Finn for her nephew 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: Augustine St. Clare Target entity description: Augustine St. Clare is a wealthy, conflicted New Orleans slave owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," whose moral ambivalence and eventual change of heart highlight the cruelties of slavery.
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A.
Eva St. Clare
Eva St. Clare is a gentle, angelic young girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," symbolizing Christian compassion and moral purity.
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B.
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."
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C.
Ashley Wilkes
Ashley Wilkes is a central fictional character in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," portrayed as the honorable yet emotionally conflicted Southern gentleman who is the object of Scarlett O'Hara's unrequited love.
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D.
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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E.
Aunt Sally Phelps
Aunt Sally Phelps is a kind but strict Southern woman who serves as Tom Sawyer’s aunt and mistakenly takes Huck Finn for her nephew in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
film adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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stage adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin ⓘ |
| appearsAs | master of the St. Clare household ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
ⓘ
surface form:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
|
| associatedWith | New Orleans plantation household ⓘ |
| characterRole |
major character
ⓘ
slaveholder ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
conflicted
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indolent ⓘ kind-hearted ⓘ morally ambivalent ⓘ wealthy ⓘ |
| child | Eva St. Clare ⓘ |
| createdBy | Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ |
| deathCause | stab wound from a street fight accident ⓘ |
| diesBefore | signing manumission papers ⓘ |
| familyName |
Augustine St. Clare
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
St. Clare
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| firstPublicationContext |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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surface form:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Augustin
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surface form:
Augustine
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| hasSlave |
Topsy
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household servants ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| moralViewOnSlavery | critical but complicit ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | to expose contradictions of benevolent slaveholding ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | slave owner ⓘ |
| plansTo | free his slaves ⓘ |
| purchases | Uncle Tom ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Uncle Tom ⓘ |
| religiousInfluenceOn | influenced by Eva St. Clare’s piety ⓘ |
| residence | New Orleans ⓘ |
| setting | pre–Civil War American South ⓘ |
| spouse | Marie St. Clare ⓘ |
| symbolizes | the conflicted Southern slaveholder ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
Christian morality
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moral ambivalence ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| treats | slaves relatively humanely ⓘ |
| undergoes | moral transformation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Augustine St. Clare Description of subject: Augustine St. Clare is a wealthy, conflicted New Orleans slave owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," whose moral ambivalence and eventual change of heart highlight the cruelties of slavery.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St. Clare