David Copperfield
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David Copperfield is a classic 1850 novel by Charles Dickens that follows the life, hardships, and personal growth of its eponymous protagonist from childhood to maturity.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T622745 — 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: David Copperfield Context triple: [Little, Brown and Company, notableWorkPublished, David Copperfield]
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a program section of the Telluride Film Festival that highlights notable and anticipated films.
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Oliver
Oliver is the given name of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a prominent 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, following a young man who must protect his family from hardship and cruelty in 19th-century England.
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Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot that intertwines an English social drama with a profound exploration of Jewish identity, nationalism, and moral responsibility in Victorian society.
- 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: David Copperfield Target entity description: David Copperfield is a classic 1850 novel by Charles Dickens that follows the life, hardships, and personal growth of its eponymous protagonist from childhood to maturity.
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A.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a program section of the Telluride Film Festival that highlights notable and anticipated films.
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B.
Oliver
Oliver is the given name of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a prominent 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist.
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C.
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, following a young man who must protect his family from hardship and cruelty in 19th-century England.
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D.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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E.
Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot that intertwines an English social drama with a profound exploration of Jewish identity, nationalism, and moral responsibility in Victorian society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: David Copperfield Description of subject: David Copperfield is a classic 1850 novel by Charles Dickens that follows the life, hardships, and personal growth of its eponymous protagonist from childhood to maturity.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David Copperfield universe
this entity surface form:
David Copperfield (1849–1850 serial publication)