Mr. Coldfield
E528787
Mr. Coldfield is a morally rigid, deeply religious Jefferson merchant in William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!" whose stern principles and withdrawal from society reflect the novel’s themes of guilt, complicity, and Southern decay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Coldfield canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5587346 — 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.
Target entity: Mr. Coldfield Context triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, featuresCharacter, Mr. Coldfield]
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Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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Mr. Grimsdale
Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
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D.
Mr. Harling
Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
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E.
Jervis Langdon
Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mr. Coldfield Target entity description: Mr. Coldfield is a morally rigid, deeply religious Jefferson merchant in William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!" whose stern principles and withdrawal from society reflect the novel’s themes of guilt, complicity, and Southern decay.
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A.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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B.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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C.
Mr. Grimsdale
Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
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D.
Mr. Harling
Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
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E.
Jervis Langdon
Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ merchant ⓘ |
| appearsIn | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Southern decay
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Southern morality ⓘ complicity ⓘ guilt ⓘ religious hypocrisy ⓘ withdrawal from society ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
austere
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rigidly principled ⓘ stern ⓘ |
| connectedToCharacter |
Ellen Coldfield Sutpen
NERFINISHED
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Thomas Sutpen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedToPlace | Jefferson, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
father of Ellen Coldfield Sutpen
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father-in-law of Thomas Sutpen ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Absalom, Absalom! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| moralCharacteristic | morally rigid ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
minor character
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symbolic figure ⓘ |
| occupation | merchant ⓘ |
| regionOfResidence | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousCharacteristic | deeply religious ⓘ |
| residence |
Jefferson
NERFINISHED
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Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Civil War era South
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antebellum South ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | withdraws from society ⓘ |
| socialStatus | respectable townsman ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
complicity through inaction
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moral withdrawal ⓘ rigid Protestant morality ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1936 ⓘ |
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Subject: Mr. Coldfield Description of subject: Mr. Coldfield is a morally rigid, deeply religious Jefferson merchant in William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!" whose stern principles and withdrawal from society reflect the novel’s themes of guilt, complicity, and Southern decay.
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