Colonel Osborne
E136439
Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colonel Osborne canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1186123 — 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: Colonel Osborne Context triple: [He Knew He Was Right, mainCharacter, Colonel Osborne]
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A.
Marshal Pentecost
Marshal Pentecost is the military rank and title held by Stacker Pentecost, the commanding officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the Pacific Rim universe.
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B.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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D.
Thomas Sharpe
Thomas Sharpe is a mysterious English baronet whose dark secrets and tragic romance with the heroine drive the gothic horror narrative of the film "Crimson Peak."
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E.
John H. Morgan
John H. Morgan was a Confederate cavalry general during the American Civil War, best known for his daring raids behind Union lines.
- 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: Colonel Osborne Target entity description: Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
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A.
Marshal Pentecost
Marshal Pentecost is the military rank and title held by Stacker Pentecost, the commanding officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the Pacific Rim universe.
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B.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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D.
Thomas Sharpe
Thomas Sharpe is a mysterious English baronet whose dark secrets and tragic romance with the heroine drive the gothic horror narrative of the film "Crimson Peak."
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E.
John H. Morgan
John H. Morgan was a Confederate cavalry general during the American Civil War, best known for his daring raids behind Union lines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ male character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | He Knew He Was Right ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Emily Trevelyan
ⓘ
Louis Trevelyan ⓘ |
| causes |
suspicion in Louis Trevelyan
ⓘ
tension between Emily Trevelyan and Louis Trevelyan ⓘ |
| characterIn | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| createdBy | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | He Knew He Was Right ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
charming
ⓘ
flirtatious ⓘ socially bold ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | prose fiction ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
causing marital discord
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flirtatious behavior ⓘ provoking jealousy ⓘ |
| occupation | colonel ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | catalyst for the breakdown of the Trevelyan marriage ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | English upper-middle-class society ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Colonel Osborne Description of subject: Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Anthony Trollope’s novel He Knew He Was Right
subject linked to:
He Knew He Was Right (1869)