Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine
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Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine is a free-spirited, gender-fluid sea captain who becomes the androgynous lover and eventual spouse of the protagonist in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Orlando: A Biography."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11776502 — 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.
Target entity: Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine Context triple: [Orlando: A Biography, notableCharacter, Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine]
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John Bowes Morrell
John Bowes Morrell was a prominent English historian, author, and civic leader from York who played a key role in the founding and development of the University of York.
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William Lambton
William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
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Charles Manners-Sutton
Charles Manners-Sutton was a prominent early 19th-century British clergyman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and played a key ceremonial role in the reign of George IV.
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Edgar Derby
Edgar Derby is a tragic, middle-aged American soldier in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel "Slaughterhouse-Five," remembered for his dignity, moral decency, and ironically senseless execution near the war’s end.
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E.
Sir John Hoddinott
Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine Target entity description: Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine is a free-spirited, gender-fluid sea captain who becomes the androgynous lover and eventual spouse of the protagonist in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Orlando: A Biography."
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A.
John Bowes Morrell
John Bowes Morrell was a prominent English historian, author, and civic leader from York who played a key role in the founding and development of the University of York.
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B.
William Lambton
William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
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C.
Charles Manners-Sutton
Charles Manners-Sutton was a prominent early 19th-century British clergyman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and played a key ceremonial role in the reign of George IV.
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D.
Edgar Derby
Edgar Derby is a tragic, middle-aged American soldier in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel "Slaughterhouse-Five," remembered for his dignity, moral decency, and ironically senseless execution near the war’s end.
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E.
Sir John Hoddinott
Sir John Hoddinott was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and was noted for his leadership in modernizing policing practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
androgynous character
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fictional character ⓘ gender-fluid character ⓘ literary character ⓘ sea captain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Orlando: A Biography
NERFINISHED
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novel Orlando: A Biography ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
androgyny
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gender fluidity ⓘ identity ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
| creator | Virginia Woolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Orlando: A Biography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Orlando: A Biography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderExpression | androgynous ⓘ |
| genderIdentity | gender-fluid ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | modernist literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
lover of the protagonist
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spouse of the protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | sea captain ⓘ |
| protagonistOfRelationshipWith | Orlando NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Orlando NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
England
NERFINISHED
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sea ⓘ |
| spouse | Orlando NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Virginia Woolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPublicationDate | 1928 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine Description of subject: Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine is a free-spirited, gender-fluid sea captain who becomes the androgynous lover and eventual spouse of the protagonist in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Orlando: A Biography."
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