Mr Obadiah Slope
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Mr Obadiah Slope is a scheming, ambitious clergyman and social climber in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for his hypocrisy and manipulative pursuit of power within the church and local society.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Slope | 7 |
| Mr Slope | 3 |
| Mr Obadiah Slope canonical | 2 |
| Mr. Obadiah Slope | 1 |
| Obadiah Slope | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T872862 — 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: Mr Obadiah Slope Context triple: [Barchester Towers, mainCharacter, Mr Obadiah Slope]
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A.
Mr. McFeely
Mr. McFeely is the speedy, friendly delivery man on the children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," known for his catchphrase "Speedy Delivery!"
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B.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
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C.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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D.
Cyril Proudbottom
Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
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E.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
- 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: Mr Obadiah Slope Target entity description: Mr Obadiah Slope is a scheming, ambitious clergyman and social climber in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for his hypocrisy and manipulative pursuit of power within the church and local society.
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A.
Mr. McFeely
Mr. McFeely is the speedy, friendly delivery man on the children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," known for his catchphrase "Speedy Delivery!"
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B.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
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C.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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D.
Cyril Proudbottom
Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
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E.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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clergyman ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Barchester Towers ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Chronicles of Barsetshire ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Archdeacon Grantly
ⓘ
Bishop Proudie ⓘ Eleanor Bold ⓘ Mr Septimus Harding ⓘ Mrs Proudie ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
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hypocritical ⓘ manipulative ⓘ obsequious ⓘ sanctimonious ⓘ self-seeking ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | traditional clergy of Barchester ⓘ |
| createdBy | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Barchester Towers ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | Victorian novel ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally dubious ⓘ |
| motive |
career advancement
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influence over the bishopric of Barchester ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
satire of evangelical hypocrisy
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vehicle for social criticism of church politics ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| occupation | chaplain ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1857 ⓘ |
| pursues |
power within the Church of England
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social advancement in Barchester society ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
scheming clergyman
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social climber ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
Barchester
ⓘ
linked to:
Barchester Cathedral
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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: Mr Obadiah Slope Description of subject: Mr Obadiah Slope is a scheming, ambitious clergyman and social climber in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for his hypocrisy and manipulative pursuit of power within the church and local society.
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