Delos D. Harriman
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Delos D. Harriman is a fictional, driven entrepreneur and visionary space industrialist in Robert A. Heinlein’s works, obsessed with making commercial travel to the Moon a reality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delos D. Harriman canonical | 2 |
| D. D. Harriman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19583518 — 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: Delos D. Harriman Context triple: [The Man Who Sold the Moon, featuresCharacter, Delos D. Harriman]
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A.
Walter Gilman
Walter Gilman is the ill-fated Miskatonic University student whose occult studies and nightmarish experiences drive the plot of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Dreams in the Witch House."
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B.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
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C.
Oliver Harriman
Oliver Harriman was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and financier associated with major New York banking and railroad interests.
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D.
Daniel Wadsworth
Daniel Wadsworth was a prominent American art patron and philanthropist best known for founding the Wadsworth Atheneum, one of the first public art museums in the United States.
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E.
Edgar A. Joralemon
Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
- 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: Delos D. Harriman Target entity description: Delos D. Harriman is a fictional, driven entrepreneur and visionary space industrialist in Robert A. Heinlein’s works, obsessed with making commercial travel to the Moon a reality.
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A.
Walter Gilman
Walter Gilman is the ill-fated Miskatonic University student whose occult studies and nightmarish experiences drive the plot of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Dreams in the Witch House."
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B.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
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C.
Oliver Harriman
Oliver Harriman was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and financier associated with major New York banking and railroad interests.
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D.
Daniel Wadsworth
Daniel Wadsworth was a prominent American art patron and philanthropist best known for founding the Wadsworth Atheneum, one of the first public art museums in the United States.
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E.
Edgar A. Joralemon
Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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