Bromfield Corey
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Bromfield Corey is a refined, aristocratic Bostonian whose old-money values and social world contrast sharply with the nouveau-riche ambitions at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bromfield Corey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842830 — 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: Bromfield Corey Context triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Bromfield Corey]
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A.
George Storrs
George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
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B.
Leonard Bleecker
Leonard Bleecker was an early American broker and financier known for being among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Isidore Miller
Isidore Miller was the father of American playwright Arthur Miller and a New York-based clothing manufacturer whose business was devastated by the Great Depression.
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E.
Edgar Bethune Ward
Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
- 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: Bromfield Corey Target entity description: Bromfield Corey is a refined, aristocratic Bostonian whose old-money values and social world contrast sharply with the nouveau-riche ambitions at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel.
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A.
George Storrs
George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
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B.
Leonard Bleecker
Leonard Bleecker was an early American broker and financier known for being among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Isidore Miller
Isidore Miller was the father of American playwright Arthur Miller and a New York-based clothing manufacturer whose business was devastated by the Great Depression.
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E.
Edgar Bethune Ward
Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rise of Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | realist novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Boston aristocracy
ⓘ
old money vs. new money ⓘ social class contrast ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| embodies | traditional Boston Brahmin values ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rise of Silas Lapham
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Corey ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
aristocratic
ⓘ
refined ⓘ |
| hasResidence | Boston ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus | upper class ⓘ |
| hasWorldview | conservative social values ⓘ |
| isFrom | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
American realism
ⓘ
linked to:
Realism
|
| represents | established upper-class society in Boston ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character in The Rise of Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| socialClass | old money ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bromfield Corey Description of subject: Bromfield Corey is a refined, aristocratic Bostonian whose old-money values and social world contrast sharply with the nouveau-riche ambitions at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.