F. M. Fulkerson
E207280
F. M. Fulkerson is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," known as the energetic, entrepreneurial promoter who helps launch the magazine around which much of the story revolves.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| F. M. Fulkerson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842912 — 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: F. M. Fulkerson Context triple: [A Hazard of New Fortunes, character, F. M. Fulkerson]
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Ralph E. Gomory
Ralph E. Gomory is an American mathematician and former IBM research executive known for his pioneering work in integer programming and for leadership in industrial research and science policy.
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Albert W. Tucker
Albert W. Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician best known for his influential work in game theory and topology, including formulating the Prisoner’s Dilemma and mentoring John Nash.
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C.
Edgar A. Newell
Edgar A. Newell was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for building the Newell Company into a major consumer goods manufacturer that later became Newell Brands.
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D.
Philip M. Morse
Philip M. Morse was an American physicist and pioneer of operations research, known for his influential work in quantum mechanics, acoustics, and the development of scientific management techniques during and after World War II.
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E.
William Karush
William Karush was an American mathematician best known for his early formulation of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a cornerstone of nonlinear optimization theory.
- 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: F. M. Fulkerson Target entity description: F. M. Fulkerson is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," known as the energetic, entrepreneurial promoter who helps launch the magazine around which much of the story revolves.
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A.
Ralph E. Gomory
Ralph E. Gomory is an American mathematician and former IBM research executive known for his pioneering work in integer programming and for leadership in industrial research and science policy.
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B.
Albert W. Tucker
Albert W. Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician best known for his influential work in game theory and topology, including formulating the Prisoner’s Dilemma and mentoring John Nash.
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C.
Edgar A. Newell
Edgar A. Newell was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for building the Newell Company into a major consumer goods manufacturer that later became Newell Brands.
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D.
Philip M. Morse
Philip M. Morse was an American physicist and pioneer of operations research, known for his influential work in quantum mechanics, acoustics, and the development of scientific management techniques during and after World War II.
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E.
William Karush
William Karush was an American mathematician best known for his early formulation of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a cornerstone of nonlinear optimization theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New York City
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magazine business ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
energetic
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entrepreneurial ⓘ optimistic ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ talkative ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| employerInStory | the new magazine he helps found ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | realist novel ⓘ |
| importance | major character in A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
connects various characters through the magazine venture
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initiates the magazine project that drives the plot ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | magazine promoter ⓘ |
| relationshipToMagazine | promoter and organizer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central figure in the founding of a magazine ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | late 19th-century New York ⓘ |
| workPublishedInYear | 1890 ⓘ |
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: F. M. Fulkerson Description of subject: F. M. Fulkerson is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," known as the energetic, entrepreneurial promoter who helps launch the magazine around which much of the story revolves.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.