Hollingsworth
E225181
Hollingsworth is a central character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Blithedale Romance," portrayed as an intense, idealistic reformer whose monomaniacal pursuit of his philanthropic vision deeply affects those around him.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hollingsworth canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2021450 — 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: Hollingsworth Context triple: [The Blithedale Romance, mainCharacter, Hollingsworth]
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A.
Eldridge
Eldridge is an English-language surname of Old English origin, borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the arts, and sports.
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B.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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C.
Clover Moore
Clover Moore is an Australian politician and long-serving Lord Mayor of Sydney known for her progressive policies on urban sustainability, transport, and social issues.
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D.
Corwin
Corwin is a surname most notably associated with Jonathan Corwin, a judge involved in the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
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E.
Hollis
Hollis is the surname of American hip-hop producer and rapper Hit-Boy, known for crafting chart-topping tracks for major artists across the genre.
- 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: Hollingsworth Target entity description: Hollingsworth is a central character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Blithedale Romance," portrayed as an intense, idealistic reformer whose monomaniacal pursuit of his philanthropic vision deeply affects those around him.
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A.
Eldridge
Eldridge is an English-language surname of Old English origin, borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the arts, and sports.
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B.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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C.
Clover Moore
Clover Moore is an Australian politician and long-serving Lord Mayor of Sydney known for her progressive policies on urban sustainability, transport, and social issues.
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D.
Corwin
Corwin is a surname most notably associated with Jonathan Corwin, a judge involved in the Salem witch trials in 17th-century Massachusetts.
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E.
Hollis
Hollis is the surname of American hip-hop producer and rapper Hit-Boy, known for crafting chart-topping tracks for major artists across the genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| affects |
Miles Coverdale
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Priscilla ⓘ Zenobia ⓘ other residents of Blithedale ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Blithedale Romance ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
idealistic
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intense ⓘ monomaniacal ⓘ |
| createdBy | Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ |
| createdInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Blithedale Romance ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | social reformer ⓘ |
| pursues | philanthropic vision ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
Blithedale community
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linked to:
The Blithedale Romance
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| themeAssociation |
moral responsibility
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obsession ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ utopian reform ⓘ |
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: Hollingsworth Description of subject: Hollingsworth is a central character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Blithedale Romance," portrayed as an intense, idealistic reformer whose monomaniacal pursuit of his philanthropic vision deeply affects those around him.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.