Isaac McCaslin
E529108
Isaac McCaslin is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known as the morally reflective heir who grapples with his family’s legacy of slavery and land ownership in the novel "Go Down, Moses."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carothers McCaslin | 4 |
| Ike McCaslin | 2 |
| Isaac McCaslin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5532214 — 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: Isaac McCaslin Context triple: [Go Down, Moses, featuresCharacter, Isaac McCaslin]
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A.
Edwin Epps
Edwin Epps is the brutal, sadistic plantation owner who enslaves Solomon Northup in the film and memoir "12 Years a Slave."
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B.
Darl Bundren
Darl Bundren is a central, introspective and increasingly unstable member of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, known for his fragmented narration and eventual descent into madness.
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C.
Addie Bundren
Addie Bundren is the deceased matriarch of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose death and complex inner life drive the story’s exploration of identity, suffering, and family.
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D.
Caddy Compson
Caddy Compson is a central, elusive figure in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," whose troubled life and moral transgressions profoundly shape the fate and inner turmoil of the Compson family.
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E.
Mr. Jason Compson III
Mr. Jason Compson III is a bitter, cynical, and financially obsessed member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," embodying the decay and moral corruption of the Southern aristocracy.
- 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: Isaac McCaslin Target entity description: Isaac McCaslin is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known as the morally reflective heir who grapples with his family’s legacy of slavery and land ownership in the novel "Go Down, Moses."
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A.
Edwin Epps
Edwin Epps is the brutal, sadistic plantation owner who enslaves Solomon Northup in the film and memoir "12 Years a Slave."
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B.
Darl Bundren
Darl Bundren is a central, introspective and increasingly unstable member of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, known for his fragmented narration and eventual descent into madness.
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C.
Addie Bundren
Addie Bundren is the deceased matriarch of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose death and complex inner life drive the story’s exploration of identity, suffering, and family.
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D.
Caddy Compson
Caddy Compson is a central, elusive figure in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," whose troubled life and moral transgressions profoundly shape the fate and inner turmoil of the Compson family.
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E.
Mr. Jason Compson III
Mr. Jason Compson III is a bitter, cynical, and financially obsessed member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," embodying the decay and moral corruption of the Southern aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Ike McCaslin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Delta Autumn
NERFINISHED
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Go Down, Moses NERFINISHED ⓘ Go Down, Moses (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ Pantaloon in Black NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fire and the Hearth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Old People NERFINISHED ⓘ Was ⓘ Yoknapatawpha saga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
land ownership
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plantation culture ⓘ slavery ⓘ wilderness hunting ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
legacy of racism in the American South
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moral responsibility for slavery ⓘ relationship between humans and wilderness ⓘ repudiation of inherited land ⓘ |
| creator | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McCaslin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Theophilus McCaslin (Buck) or Amodeus McCaslin (Buddy) (family line, depending on interpretation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Go Down, Moses (1942) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Isaac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Carothers McCaslin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Southern Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorRelationship |
Boone Hogganbeck
NERFINISHED
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Carothers Edmonds NERFINISHED ⓘ Lion (hunting dog) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Fathers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | McCaslin family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralCharacteristic |
guilt-ridden
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idealistic ⓘ reflective ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableAction |
renounces his inheritance of the McCaslin plantation
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studies the McCaslin plantation ledgers to uncover family history ⓘ |
| occupation |
carpenter
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hunter ⓘ woodsman ⓘ |
| residence | Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi (fictional) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post–American Civil War South ⓘ |
| uncle |
Buck McCaslin
NERFINISHED
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Buddy McCaslin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Isaac McCaslin Description of subject: Isaac McCaslin is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known as the morally reflective heir who grapples with his family’s legacy of slavery and land ownership in the novel "Go Down, Moses."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Carothers McCaslin
this entity surface form:
Carothers McCaslin
this entity surface form:
Ike McCaslin
this entity surface form:
Carothers McCaslin
this entity surface form:
Ike McCaslin
this entity surface form:
Carothers McCaslin