Cornelius Suttree
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Cornelius Suttree is the disillusioned, self-exiled protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Suttree," living on the margins of Knoxville society in the early 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelius Suttree canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12942513 — 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: Cornelius Suttree Context triple: [Suttree, followsCharacter, Cornelius Suttree]
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A.
Ransom Stoddard
Ransom Stoddard is a principled lawyer-turned-politician in the classic Western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," whose rise to fame is built on a legendary but misunderstood act of frontier justice.
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B.
Jack Gladney
Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
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C.
Ambrose Hilliard
Ambrose Hilliard is a fictional aging actor in the British World War II film "Their Finest," whose career and ego are challenged as he participates in making wartime propaganda movies.
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D.
Edmund Fowle
Edmund Fowle was a colonial-era Massachusetts resident and civic figure after whom the historic Edmund Fowle House in Watertown is named.
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E.
Cornelius Haggard
Cornelius Haggard is a notable individual distinguished by bearing the surname Haggard, which is associated with several prominent figures.
- 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: Cornelius Suttree Target entity description: Cornelius Suttree is the disillusioned, self-exiled protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Suttree," living on the margins of Knoxville society in the early 1950s.
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A.
Ransom Stoddard
Ransom Stoddard is a principled lawyer-turned-politician in the classic Western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," whose rise to fame is built on a legendary but misunderstood act of frontier justice.
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B.
Jack Gladney
Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
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C.
Ambrose Hilliard
Ambrose Hilliard is a fictional aging actor in the British World War II film "Their Finest," whose career and ego are challenged as he participates in making wartime propaganda movies.
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D.
Edmund Fowle
Edmund Fowle was a colonial-era Massachusetts resident and civic figure after whom the historic Edmund Fowle House in Watertown is named.
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E.
Cornelius Haggard
Cornelius Haggard is a notable individual distinguished by bearing the surname Haggard, which is associated with several prominent figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
human ⓘ literary protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Suttree ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Knoxville waterfront community
ⓘ
linked to:
Old City, Knoxville
vagrants and drifters ⓘ |
| conflict |
estrangement from family
ⓘ
guilt over his son ⓘ |
| creator | Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| education | attended college ⓘ |
| experiences |
bereavement
ⓘ
illness ⓘ imprisonment ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| familyBackground | wealthy Knoxville family ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild | illegitimate son ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | semi-autobiographical figure for Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| livesOn | houseboat on the Tennessee River ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | estranged from wife ⓘ |
| modeOfLife | self-imposed exile ⓘ |
| moralStance | rejects family privilege ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person focal character ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | fisherman ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
alienated
ⓘ
compassionate ⓘ introspective ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork | Random House ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
Gene Harrogate
ⓘ
J-Bone ⓘ Reese ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | Catholic upbringing ⓘ |
| residence | Knoxville, Tennessee ⓘ |
| settingOfLifeEvents | postwar American South ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
marginalized
ⓘ
outcast ⓘ |
| themeInWork |
alienation
ⓘ
free will ⓘ mortality ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 1950s ⓘ |
| worldview | disillusioned ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkPublication | 1979 ⓘ |
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: Cornelius Suttree Description of subject: Cornelius Suttree is the disillusioned, self-exiled protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Suttree," living on the margins of Knoxville society in the early 1950s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.