Duncan
E112007
Duncan is a character in Margaret Atwood's novel "The Edible Woman," serving as an eccentric and introspective figure who reflects the protagonist's psychological turmoil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duncan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T928592 — 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: Duncan Context triple: [The Edible Woman, hasCharacter, Duncan]
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A.
John Alexander
John Alexander was a prominent landowner in colonial Virginia whose family holdings encompassed the area that later became the city of Alexandria.
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B.
John Alexander
John Alexander is an American actor and creature performer known for his work in practical effects and suit acting in fantasy and science fiction films.
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C.
Keir
Keir is a masculine given name most prominently associated with British politician Keir Starmer, the leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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D.
Stuart
Stuart is the royal dynasty that ruled Scotland and later England and Ireland, most famously associated with monarchs such as James I and Charles I.
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E.
Malcolm
Malcolm is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, traditionally meaning "disciple of Saint Columba."
- 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: Duncan Target entity description: Duncan is a character in Margaret Atwood's novel "The Edible Woman," serving as an eccentric and introspective figure who reflects the protagonist's psychological turmoil.
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A.
John Alexander
John Alexander was a prominent landowner in colonial Virginia whose family holdings encompassed the area that later became the city of Alexandria.
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B.
John Alexander
John Alexander is an American actor and creature performer known for his work in practical effects and suit acting in fantasy and science fiction films.
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C.
Keir
Keir is a masculine given name most prominently associated with British politician Keir Starmer, the leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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D.
Stuart
Stuart is the royal dynasty that ruled Scotland and later England and Ireland, most famously associated with monarchs such as James I and Charles I.
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E.
Malcolm
Malcolm is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, traditionally meaning "disciple of Saint Columba."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Edible Woman ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
eccentric
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introspective ⓘ |
| createdBy | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | reflects protagonist's psychological turmoil ⓘ |
| nationalityOfWorkAppearedIn | Canadian literature ⓘ |
| relatedToCharacter | Marian MacAlpin ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Toronto ⓘ |
| workOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1969 ⓘ |
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: Duncan Description of subject: Duncan is a character in Margaret Atwood's novel "The Edible Woman," serving as an eccentric and introspective figure who reflects the protagonist's psychological turmoil.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.