August King
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August King is the fictional protagonist of John Ehle’s novel and its film adaptation, a widowed North Carolina farmer whose encounter with an escaped enslaved girl forces him to confront his conscience and the moral costs of slavery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| August King canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19677728 — 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: August King Context triple: [The Journey of August King, mainCharacter, August King]
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A.
James King
James King was an 18th-century British naval officer and explorer who helped complete and edit the published account of Captain James Cook’s final Pacific voyage.
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B.
James King
James King is a musician best known as a member of Bruno Mars's backing band, The Hooligans.
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C.
James King
James King was a member of the King family of Omaha, Nebraska, best known as the sibling of Leslie Lynch King Sr., the biological father of U.S. President Gerald Ford.
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D.
James King
James King is the wealthy, naive investment banker portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Get Hard," who must prepare for an impending prison sentence with the help of his car washer.
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E.
Louis King
Louis King was a sibling of Leslie Lynch King Sr., the biological father of U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- 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: August King Target entity description: August King is the fictional protagonist of John Ehle’s novel and its film adaptation, a widowed North Carolina farmer whose encounter with an escaped enslaved girl forces him to confront his conscience and the moral costs of slavery.
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A.
James King
James King was a member of the King family of Omaha, Nebraska, best known as the sibling of Leslie Lynch King Sr., the biological father of U.S. President Gerald Ford.
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B.
James King
James King was an 18th-century British naval officer and explorer who helped complete and edit the published account of Captain James Cook’s final Pacific voyage.
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C.
James King
James King is a musician best known as a member of Bruno Mars's backing band, The Hooligans.
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D.
James King
James King is the wealthy, naive investment banker portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Get Hard," who must prepare for an impending prison sentence with the help of his car washer.
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E.
Louis King
Louis King was a sibling of Leslie Lynch King Sr., the biological father of U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.