Buck Mulligan
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Buck Mulligan is a boisterous, irreverent medical student and one of the central figures in the opening episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Buck Mulligan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T896788 — 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: Buck Mulligan Context triple: [Ulysses, notableCharacter, Buck Mulligan]
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A.
Leopold Bloom
Leopold Bloom is the introspective Dublin advertising canvasser whose wandering thoughts and experiences over a single day form the core of James Joyce’s modernist novel "Ulysses."
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B.
Stephen Dedalus
Stephen Dedalus is a central fictional character created by James Joyce, portrayed as an intellectually restless young Dubliner whose artistic and philosophical struggles are explored in both "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
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C.
Desmond MacCarthy
Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
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D.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a political novel by Anthony Trollope that follows the career and personal struggles of an ambitious young Irishman in Victorian British Parliament.
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E.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
- 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: Buck Mulligan Target entity description: Buck Mulligan is a boisterous, irreverent medical student and one of the central figures in the opening episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
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A.
Leopold Bloom
Leopold Bloom is the introspective Dublin advertising canvasser whose wandering thoughts and experiences over a single day form the core of James Joyce’s modernist novel "Ulysses."
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B.
Stephen Dedalus
Stephen Dedalus is a central fictional character created by James Joyce, portrayed as an intellectually restless young Dubliner whose artistic and philosophical struggles are explored in both "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
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C.
Desmond MacCarthy
Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
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D.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a political novel by Anthony Trollope that follows the career and personal struggles of an ambitious young Irishman in Victorian British Parliament.
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E.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ulysses ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
Nestor
ⓘ
Proteus ⓘ Scylla and Charybdis ⓘ Telemachus ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
Irish identity
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art versus everyday life ⓘ blasphemy and irreverence ⓘ friendship and betrayal ⓘ |
| basedOn | Oliver St. John Gogarty ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
boisterous
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irreverent ⓘ |
| creator | James Joyce ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Telemachus (episode of Ulysses)
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linked to:
Telemachus
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfDialogue | English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
comic relief
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foil to Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modernist literature ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableQuoteContext | opening scene of Ulysses at the Martello tower ⓘ |
| notableScene | mock mass on the Martello tower roof ⓘ |
| occupation | medical student ⓘ |
| relationshipTo | Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithStephenDedalus |
friend
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roommate ⓘ |
| religiousAttitude |
mocking of Catholic rituals
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skeptical ⓘ |
| residence | Martello tower at Sandycove ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central figure in opening episode of Ulysses ⓘ |
| setting | Dublin ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| workGenre | modernist novel ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1922 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Buck Mulligan Description of subject: Buck Mulligan is a boisterous, irreverent medical student and one of the central figures in the opening episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
James Joyce's Ulysses
subject linked to:
provides contrast to Stephen Dedalus’s Irish identity