Mr. Jason Compson III
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quentin Compson III | 3 |
| Mr. Compson | 2 |
| Mr. Jason Compson III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T614545 — 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: Mr. Jason Compson III Context triple: [The Sound and the Fury, hasCharacter, Mr. Jason Compson III]
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A.
Quentin Compson
Quentin Compson is a tormented, introspective member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known for his obsessive concern with time, honor, and his sister Caddy.
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B.
Benjy Compson
Benjy Compson is a cognitively disabled, emotionally sensitive member of the Compson family whose fragmented, non-linear perspective opens William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury."
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C.
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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D.
Jason Compson IV
Jason Compson IV is a bitter, cruel, and materialistic member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s fiction, embodying the moral and emotional decay of the Southern aristocracy.
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E.
Sartoris
Sartoris is William Faulkner’s first published novel, introducing the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and the Sartoris family that recur throughout his later works.
- 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: Mr. Jason Compson III Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Quentin Compson
Quentin Compson is a tormented, introspective member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known for his obsessive concern with time, honor, and his sister Caddy.
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B.
Benjy Compson
Benjy Compson is a cognitively disabled, emotionally sensitive member of the Compson family whose fragmented, non-linear perspective opens William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury."
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C.
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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D.
Jason Compson IV
Jason Compson IV is a bitter, cruel, and materialistic member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s fiction, embodying the moral and emotional decay of the Southern aristocracy.
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E.
Sartoris
Sartoris is William Faulkner’s first published novel, introducing the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and the Sartoris family that recur throughout his later works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Sound and the Fury ⓘ |
| behaviorTowardOthers |
abusive
ⓘ
exploitative ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| familyName | Compson ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Unvanquished
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surface form:
Compson family saga
|
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1929 ⓘ |
| fullName | Jason Compson III ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jason ⓘ |
| hasFather | Jason Compson II ⓘ |
| hasMother | Caroline Compson ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Benjy Compson
ⓘ
Caddy Compson ⓘ Quentin Compson ⓘ
surface form:
Quentin Compson III
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| ideology |
racist
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sexist ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
modernist literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| memberOf | Compson family ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
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viewpoint character ⓘ |
| notableAction |
controls and withholds family finances
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embezzles money from Caddy intended for Miss Quentin ⓘ |
| numeration | III ⓘ |
| occupation |
farm supply store employee
ⓘ
store clerk ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
bitter
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cruel ⓘ cynical ⓘ financially obsessed ⓘ greedy ⓘ manipulative ⓘ sadistic ⓘ |
| relationship | uncle of Miss Quentin ⓘ |
| residence | Jefferson, Mississippi ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
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| symbolizes |
decay of Southern aristocracy
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materialism ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| treatsCharacter |
Dilsey Gibson
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surface form:
Dilsey
Miss Quentin ⓘ |
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: Mr. Jason Compson III Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Quentin Compson III
this entity surface form:
Quentin Compson III
this entity surface form:
Mr. Compson
this entity surface form:
Quentin Compson III
this entity surface form:
Mr. Compson