Newton Pulsifer
E620100
Newton Pulsifer is a bumbling yet well-meaning young witchfinder who becomes an unlikely hero in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s comic apocalyptic novel *Good Omens*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newton Pulsifer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796338 — 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: Newton Pulsifer Context triple: [Good Omens, mainCharacter, Newton Pulsifer]
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A.
James Rush
James Rush is the child of Australian actress Jane Menelaus and is primarily known in relation to his parents’ public profiles.
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B.
John Jeffries
John Jeffries was an 18th-century American-born physician and Loyalist who later became a pioneering balloonist and early meteorologist.
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C.
Chauncey Goodrich
Chauncey Goodrich was an American lawyer, politician, and lexicographer known for his work on early American dictionaries and his service in the U.S. Congress and as lieutenant governor of Connecticut.
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D.
William Caswell
William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
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E.
James Paine
James Paine was an 18th-century English architect known for his elegant Palladian-style country houses and bridges.
- 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: Newton Pulsifer Target entity description: Newton Pulsifer is a bumbling yet well-meaning young witchfinder who becomes an unlikely hero in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s comic apocalyptic novel *Good Omens*.
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A.
James Rush
James Rush is the child of Australian actress Jane Menelaus and is primarily known in relation to his parents’ public profiles.
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B.
John Jeffries
John Jeffries was an 18th-century American-born physician and Loyalist who later became a pioneering balloonist and early meteorologist.
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C.
Chauncey Goodrich
Chauncey Goodrich was an American lawyer, politician, and lexicographer known for his work on early American dictionaries and his service in the U.S. Congress and as lieutenant governor of Connecticut.
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D.
William Caswell
William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
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E.
James Paine
James Paine was an 18th-century English architect known for his elegant Palladian-style country houses and bridges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
human ⓘ witchfinder ⓘ |
| allyOf |
Anathema Device
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aziraphale NERFINISHED ⓘ Crowley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Good Omens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation | Good Omens (2019 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
apocalyptic fiction
ⓘ
comic fantasy ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
novel
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
fate versus free will
ⓘ
ordinary people as heroes ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | novel Good Omens ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
bumbling
ⓘ
well-meaning ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom (fictional setting association) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
Neil Gaiman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terry Pratchett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Pulsifer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Good Omens (1990 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Newton Pulsifer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation | Witchfinder Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
basic computer skills
ⓘ
driving (poorly) ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Witchfinder Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Witchfinder Army (Good Omens) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | unlikely hero ⓘ |
| occupation | witchfinder ⓘ |
| personality |
kind-hearted
ⓘ
nervous ⓘ |
| playsKeyRoleIn | preventing the apocalypse ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack Whitehall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticallyInvolvedWith | Anathema Device NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksUnder | Sergeant Shadwell 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: Newton Pulsifer Description of subject: Newton Pulsifer is a bumbling yet well-meaning young witchfinder who becomes an unlikely hero in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s comic apocalyptic novel *Good Omens*.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.