John Eames
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John Eames is a central young clerk and romantic figure in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, notably portrayed as an earnest but socially awkward suitor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Eames canonical | 5 |
| Johnny Eames | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T922908 — 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: John Eames Context triple: [The Small House at Allington, featuresCharacter, John Eames]
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A.
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
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B.
Dean Riesner
Dean Riesner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as "Dirty Harry" and "Play Misty for Me."
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C.
Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff was an innovative American architect known for his highly original, organic, and often unconventional designs that broke with traditional architectural norms.
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D.
John Haviland
John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
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E.
Robert McKim
Robert McKim was an American silent film actor known for playing villainous roles in early 20th-century cinema.
- 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: John Eames Target entity description: John Eames is a central young clerk and romantic figure in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, notably portrayed as an earnest but socially awkward suitor.
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A.
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
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B.
Dean Riesner
Dean Riesner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as "Dirty Harry" and "Play Misty for Me."
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C.
Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff was an innovative American architect known for his highly original, organic, and often unconventional designs that broke with traditional architectural norms.
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D.
John Haviland
John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
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E.
Robert McKim
Robert McKim was an American silent film actor known for playing villainous roles in early 20th-century cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clerk
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Last Chronicle of Barset
ⓘ
The Small House at Allington ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Allington
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| characterTrait |
earnest
ⓘ
impulsive ⓘ loyal ⓘ socially awkward ⓘ |
| creator | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| employer | Inland Revenue Office ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Barsetshire ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Small House at Allington ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| literaryRole |
central young clerk figure
ⓘ
romantic hero ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAction | rescues the Earl de Guest from a bull ⓘ |
| occupation | clerk ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Chronicles of Barsetshire ⓘ |
| patron | Earl de Guest ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Lily Dale ⓘ |
| romanticRival | Adolphus Crosbie ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| socialClass | lower middle class ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
Victorian bureaucracy
ⓘ
social mobility ⓘ unrequited love ⓘ |
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: John Eames Description of subject: John Eames is a central young clerk and romantic figure in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, notably portrayed as an earnest but socially awkward suitor.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Eames