Stephen Guest
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Stephen Guest is a charming yet morally conflicted young man in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose romantic entanglement with Maggie Tulliver drives much of the story’s emotional tension.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen Guest canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2894198 — 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: Stephen Guest Context triple: [The Mill on the Floss, mainCharacter, Stephen Guest]
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A.
Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks was an American basketball player best known as a standout forward at La Salle University who went on to play professionally in the NBA and overseas.
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B.
Stephen Evans
Stephen Evans is a British film producer best known for his work on acclaimed literary and period adaptations, including the 1993 film "Much Ado About Nothing."
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C.
Gareth Hunt
Gareth Hunt was a British actor best known for his roles in the television series "The New Avengers" and the sitcom "Side by Side."
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D.
Gregory Goodman
Gregory Goodman is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the Tom Hanks–led Western drama "News of the World."
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E.
Sean Harris
Sean Harris is a British actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of the android-hating geologist Fifield in the science fiction film "Prometheus."
- 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: Stephen Guest Target entity description: Stephen Guest is a charming yet morally conflicted young man in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose romantic entanglement with Maggie Tulliver drives much of the story’s emotional tension.
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A.
Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks was an American basketball player best known as a standout forward at La Salle University who went on to play professionally in the NBA and overseas.
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B.
Stephen Evans
Stephen Evans is a British film producer best known for his work on acclaimed literary and period adaptations, including the 1993 film "Much Ado About Nothing."
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C.
Gareth Hunt
Gareth Hunt was a British actor best known for his roles in the television series "The New Avengers" and the sitcom "Side by Side."
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D.
Gregory Goodman
Gregory Goodman is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the Tom Hanks–led Western drama "News of the World."
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E.
Sean Harris
Sean Harris is a British actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of the android-hating geologist Fifield in the science fiction film "Prometheus."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Mill on the Floss ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | Victorian novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInPart | later books of The Mill on the Floss ⓘ |
| associatedWithMotif |
self‑deception
ⓘ
temptation ⓘ |
| betraysTrustOf | Philip Wakem ⓘ |
| breaksEngagementWith | Lucy Deane ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
duty versus desire
ⓘ
social convention versus individual feeling ⓘ |
| conflictType |
moral conflict
ⓘ
romantic conflict ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Eliot ⓘ |
| describedAs |
charming
ⓘ
morally conflicted ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1860 ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNationality | English ⓘ |
| hasRomanticSceneAt | river near St. Ogg’s ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
handsome
ⓘ
impulsive ⓘ musically talented ⓘ pleasure‑loving ⓘ self‑indulgent ⓘ socially polished ⓘ weak‑willed ⓘ |
| isCousinOf | Lucy Deane ⓘ |
| isFriendOf | Philip Wakem ⓘ |
| isHeirTo | Guest & Co. ⓘ |
| isSocialClass | upper middle class ⓘ |
| livesIn |
St. Ogg’s
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Ogg's
|
| moralEvaluationByNarrator | attractive but ethically weak ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for Maggie Tulliver’s moral crisis
ⓘ
source of emotional tension in the plot ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| readerReceptionTypical |
viewed as romantically appealing but unreliable
ⓘ
viewed as selfish ⓘ |
| roleInWork | major character ⓘ |
| romanticallyInvolvedWith |
Lucy Deane
ⓘ
Maggie Tulliver ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
St. Ogg’s
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Ogg's
|
| worksAt | Guest & Co. ⓘ |
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: Stephen Guest Description of subject: Stephen Guest is a charming yet morally conflicted young man in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose romantic entanglement with Maggie Tulliver drives much of the story’s emotional tension.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is Tom Tulliver's sister
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is romantically involved with Stephen Guest
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is romantically involved with Stephen Guest
subject linked to:
Fictional town of St. Ogg’s