Roger Button
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Roger Button is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," portrayed as Benjamin Button's socially conscious and often bewildered father.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Button canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10301980 — 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: Roger Button Context triple: [Benjamin Button, hasFather, Roger Button]
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A.
Richard Grainger
Richard Grainger was a 19th-century British builder and developer renowned for reshaping central Newcastle upon Tyne with elegant neoclassical streets and buildings.
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B.
Nevill Coghill
Nevill Coghill was a British literary scholar and translator best known for his modern English rendition of Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales" and his association with the Oxford literary group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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C.
Robert Cornthwaite
Robert Cornthwaite was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction films and numerous television appearances.
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D.
Paul Beeston
Paul Beeston is a prominent Canadian baseball executive best known for his long tenure as a top leader of the Toronto Blue Jays and as the first president of Major League Baseball.
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E.
Richard Suckle
Richard Suckle is an American film producer known for his work on major studio projects, including the DC superhero film "Wonder Woman" (2017).
- 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: Roger Button Target entity description: Roger Button is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," portrayed as Benjamin Button's socially conscious and often bewildered father.
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A.
Richard Grainger
Richard Grainger was a 19th-century British builder and developer renowned for reshaping central Newcastle upon Tyne with elegant neoclassical streets and buildings.
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B.
Nevill Coghill
Nevill Coghill was a British literary scholar and translator best known for his modern English rendition of Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales" and his association with the Oxford literary group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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C.
Robert Cornthwaite
Robert Cornthwaite was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction films and numerous television appearances.
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D.
Paul Beeston
Paul Beeston is a prominent Canadian baseball executive best known for his long tenure as a top leader of the Toronto Blue Jays and as the first president of Major League Baseball.
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E.
Richard Suckle
Richard Suckle is an American film producer known for his work on major studio projects, including the DC superhero film "Wonder Woman" (2017).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
NERFINISHED
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short story ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
fantasy fiction
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speculative fiction ⓘ |
| concernedWith |
family honor
ⓘ
social reputation ⓘ |
| createdBy | F. Scott Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdInLanguage | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Collier's Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAuthorialCountryOfOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Benjamin Button NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Button NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Roger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | businessman ⓘ |
| hasRole | father of Benjamin Button ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Mrs. Button NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
bewildered by his son's condition
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socially conscious ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| isFrom | Baltimore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Jazz Age literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| partOfWorkBy | F. Scott Fitzgerald short fiction ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfFirstAppearance | 1922 ⓘ |
| reactsTo | Benjamin Button's reverse aging ⓘ |
| settingOfLife | late 19th century ⓘ |
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: Roger Button Description of subject: Roger Button is a fictional character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," portrayed as Benjamin Button's socially conscious and often bewildered father.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.