Judge Holden
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Judge Holden is a mysterious, highly intelligent, and brutally violent antagonist in Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Blood Meridian," often interpreted as a symbolic embodiment of war, evil, or nihilism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judge Holden canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12942349 — 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: Judge Holden Context triple: [Blood Meridian, notableCharacter, Judge Holden]
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A.
Judge Mathis
Judge Mathis is a long-running American arbitration-based reality court show featuring former Michigan judge Greg Mathis presiding over small-claims disputes.
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B.
Judge Ross Bannick
Judge Ross Bannick is a respected but secretly murderous Florida judge who serves as the elusive serial-killer antagonist in John Grisham’s thriller novel *The Judge’s List*.
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C.
Judge Rutherford
Judge Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and a key figure in shaping the doctrines and global expansion of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 20th century.
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D.
Judge Henry Bone
Judge Henry Bone is a fictional, often cantankerous but sharp-witted jurist portrayed by Ray Walston on the television series "Picket Fences."
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E.
Judge Brack
Judge Brack is a calculating, socially influential judge who serves as a manipulative antagonist in Henrik Ibsen’s play "Hedda Gabler."
- 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: Judge Holden Target entity description: Judge Holden is a mysterious, highly intelligent, and brutally violent antagonist in Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Blood Meridian," often interpreted as a symbolic embodiment of war, evil, or nihilism.
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A.
Judge Mathis
Judge Mathis is a long-running American arbitration-based reality court show featuring former Michigan judge Greg Mathis presiding over small-claims disputes.
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B.
Judge Ross Bannick
Judge Ross Bannick is a respected but secretly murderous Florida judge who serves as the elusive serial-killer antagonist in John Grisham’s thriller novel *The Judge’s List*.
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C.
Judge Rutherford
Judge Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and a key figure in shaping the doctrines and global expansion of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 20th century.
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D.
Judge Henry Bone
Judge Henry Bone is a fictional, often cantankerous but sharp-witted jurist portrayed by Ray Walston on the television series "Picket Fences."
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E.
Judge Brack
Judge Brack is a calculating, socially influential judge who serves as a manipulative antagonist in Henrik Ibsen’s play "Hedda Gabler."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary antagonist ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| alignment | malevolent ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Blood Meridian ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
evil
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nihilism ⓘ war ⓘ |
| basedOn | possibly inspired by a historical scalp hunter ⓘ |
| characteristic |
brutally violent
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charismatic ⓘ erudite ⓘ hairless ⓘ highly intelligent ⓘ mysterious ⓘ pale ⓘ physically imposing ⓘ |
| collects |
artifacts
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natural specimens ⓘ |
| creator | Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Blood Meridian ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
drawing
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marksmanship ⓘ oratory ⓘ scientific observation ⓘ tracking ⓘ |
| influences | interpretations of violence in McCarthy criticism ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
Southern Gothic
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Western novel ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extreme violence
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philosophical monologues ⓘ |
| occupation | judge ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcept | war as ultimate game ⓘ |
| philosophicalView |
deterministic view of war
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rejection of moral order ⓘ |
| role |
antagonist
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member of Glanton gang ⓘ |
| setting |
American West
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linked to:
Old West
Mexico ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | multiple languages ⓘ |
| symbolicInterpretation |
embodiment of evil
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embodiment of nihilism ⓘ embodiment of war ⓘ |
| themeIn |
metaphysical evil
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the nature of war ⓘ violence in American expansion ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-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: Judge Holden Description of subject: Judge Holden is a mysterious, highly intelligent, and brutally violent antagonist in Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Blood Meridian," often interpreted as a symbolic embodiment of war, evil, or nihilism.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.