Leo Percepied
E1020542
Leo Percepied is the semi-autobiographical narrator of Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Subterraneans," representing Kerouac himself within the Beat Generation’s bohemian San Francisco scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leo Percepied canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13080036 — 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: Leo Percepied Context triple: [The Subterraneans, protagonist, Leo Percepied]
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A.
Percy Alleline
Percy Alleline is a senior British intelligence officer in John le Carré's espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," notable for his ambitious rise within the Circus and his role in the mole-hunt intrigue.
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B.
Lou Barle
Lou Barle was a professional basketball player best known for his time with the early National Basketball League team the Oshkosh All-Stars.
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C.
Samuel Lord
Samuel Lord was a 19th-century English-born American merchant best known for establishing the iconic New York department store Lord & Taylor.
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D.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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E.
Rupert Macabee
Rupert Macabee is a character in the 1957 Charlie Chaplin film "A King in New York," appearing in its satirical portrayal of politics and media in postwar America.
- 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: Leo Percepied Target entity description: Leo Percepied is the semi-autobiographical narrator of Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Subterraneans," representing Kerouac himself within the Beat Generation’s bohemian San Francisco scene.
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A.
Percy Alleline
Percy Alleline is a senior British intelligence officer in John le Carré's espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," notable for his ambitious rise within the Circus and his role in the mole-hunt intrigue.
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B.
Lou Barle
Lou Barle was a professional basketball player best known for his time with the early National Basketball League team the Oshkosh All-Stars.
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C.
Samuel Lord
Samuel Lord was a 19th-century English-born American merchant best known for establishing the iconic New York department store Lord & Taylor.
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D.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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E.
Rupert Macabee
Rupert Macabee is a character in the 1957 Charlie Chaplin film "A King in New York," appearing in its satirical portrayal of politics and media in postwar America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ narrator ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Subterraneans ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
Beat literature
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autobiographical novel ⓘ roman à clef ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | Beat Generation ⓘ |
| associatedWithScene | bohemian San Francisco scene ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
bohemian lifestyle
ⓘ
existential searching ⓘ jazz culture ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| associatedWithTimePeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalContext |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
member of the Beat milieu
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryFunction |
author surrogate
ⓘ
autobiographical stand-in ⓘ |
| isSemiAutobiographicalRepresentationOf | Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | postwar American literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| narratorOf | The Subterraneans ⓘ |
| represents | Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of The Subterraneans ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1958 ⓘ |
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: Leo Percepied Description of subject: Leo Percepied is the semi-autobiographical narrator of Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Subterraneans," representing Kerouac himself within the Beat Generation’s bohemian San Francisco scene.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.