Caspar Goodwood
E245577
Caspar Goodwood is a determined and passionate American suitor in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for his intense, unwavering love for the protagonist Isabel Archer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Caspar Goodwood canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2210350 — 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: Caspar Goodwood Context triple: [The Portrait of a Lady, character, Caspar Goodwood]
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A.
Christopher Wren
Christopher Wren was a renowned 17th-century English architect and polymath best known for designing St Paul’s Cathedral and reshaping the cityscape of London after the Great Fire.
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B.
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones was a pioneering 17th-century English architect who introduced classical Renaissance architecture to Britain and designed landmarks such as the Queen’s House in Greenwich and the Banqueting House in Whitehall.
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C.
Christopher Wren Sr.
Christopher Wren Sr. was an English clergyman and scholar best known as the father of the renowned architect Sir Christopher Wren.
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D.
Richard Upjohn
Richard Upjohn was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for popularizing the Gothic Revival style in the United States.
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E.
William Peachey
William Peachey was a 19th-century British architect known for his work on major railway buildings, including the design of York railway station.
- 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: Caspar Goodwood Target entity description: Caspar Goodwood is a determined and passionate American suitor in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for his intense, unwavering love for the protagonist Isabel Archer.
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A.
Christopher Wren
Christopher Wren was a renowned 17th-century English architect and polymath best known for designing St Paul’s Cathedral and reshaping the cityscape of London after the Great Fire.
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B.
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones was a pioneering 17th-century English architect who introduced classical Renaissance architecture to Britain and designed landmarks such as the Queen’s House in Greenwich and the Banqueting House in Whitehall.
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C.
Christopher Wren Sr.
Christopher Wren Sr. was an English clergyman and scholar best known as the father of the renowned architect Sir Christopher Wren.
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D.
Richard Upjohn
Richard Upjohn was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for popularizing the Gothic Revival style in the United States.
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E.
William Peachey
William Peachey was a 19th-century British architect known for his work on major railway buildings, including the design of York railway station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Portrait of a Lady ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
American versus European values
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freedom and independence ⓘ romantic pursuit ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
determined
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intense ⓘ passionate ⓘ persistent ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Gilbert Osmond
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Lord Warburton ⓘ |
| createdBy | Henry James ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Portrait of a Lady ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasBackground | American industrial background ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | businessman ⓘ |
| inLoveWith | Isabel Archer ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | realism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century literature ⓘ |
| loveDescribedAs |
intense
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unwavering ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| pursues | marriage with Isabel Archer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | suitor of Isabel Archer ⓘ |
| setIn | transatlantic context ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
American energy
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directness in love ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1881 ⓘ |
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: Caspar Goodwood Description of subject: Caspar Goodwood is a determined and passionate American suitor in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for his intense, unwavering love for the protagonist Isabel Archer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.