James Stevens
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James Stevens is the emotionally restrained English butler at the heart of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "The Remains of the Day," famously portrayed on film by Anthony Hopkins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Stevens canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5398402 — 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: James Stevens Context triple: [Anthony Hopkins as Stevens, characterName, James Stevens]
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A.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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B.
James Harrod
James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
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C.
Philip Oakes
Philip Oakes was a British journalist, film critic, and screenwriter active in the mid-20th century.
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D.
John Boies Tileston
John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
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E.
George Travis
George Travis is a veteran concert and theater producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, including work on the acclaimed stage production "Springsteen on Broadway."
- 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: James Stevens Target entity description: James Stevens is the emotionally restrained English butler at the heart of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "The Remains of the Day," famously portrayed on film by Anthony Hopkins.
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A.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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B.
James Harrod
James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
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C.
Philip Oakes
Philip Oakes was a British journalist, film critic, and screenwriter active in the mid-20th century.
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D.
John Boies Tileston
John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
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E.
George Travis
George Travis is a veteran concert and theater producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, including work on the acclaimed stage production "Springsteen on Broadway."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | film ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Remains of the Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Kazuo Ishiguro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardedToSourceWork | Booker Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeAssociation |
dignity
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duty ⓘ memory ⓘ regret ⓘ repression of emotion ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Lord Darlington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalCharacterOrigin | British literature ⓘ |
| fictionalSocialClass | servant class ⓘ |
| fictionalTimePeriod |
interwar period
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post-World War II period ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationOfWork | The Remains of the Day (1993 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfAdaptation | James Ivory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmScreenwriterOfAdaptation | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| internalConflict | suppression of personal feelings for Miss Kenton ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenreOfSourceWork |
historical fiction
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psychological novel ⓘ |
| name | James Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | butler ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
dutiful
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emotionally restrained ⓘ loyal ⓘ perfectionist ⓘ reserved ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Anthony Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1989 ⓘ |
| publisherOfSourceWork | Faber and Faber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationship | professional relationship with Miss Kenton ⓘ |
| roleInWork | narrator ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Oxfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeInArc |
complicity in political events
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conflict between personal happiness and professional duty ⓘ |
| worksAt | Darlington Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workType | novel ⓘ |
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: James Stevens Description of subject: James Stevens is the emotionally restrained English butler at the heart of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "The Remains of the Day," famously portrayed on film by Anthony Hopkins.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.