W. O. Gant
E322715
W. O. Gant is a passionate, larger-than-life stonecutter and the domineering, often volatile father figure in Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| W. O. Gant canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2748513 — 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: W. O. Gant Context triple: [Look Homeward, Angel, mainCharacter, W. O. Gant]
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A.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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B.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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C.
Harold McCord
Harold McCord was a film editor active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
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D.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
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E.
George Houser
George Houser was an American civil rights activist and minister who co-founded key nonviolent protest organizations and played a significant role in early Freedom Rides and anti-apartheid efforts.
- 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: W. O. Gant Target entity description: W. O. Gant is a passionate, larger-than-life stonecutter and the domineering, often volatile father figure in Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel."
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A.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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B.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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C.
Harold McCord
Harold McCord was a film editor active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
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D.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
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E.
George Houser
George Houser was an American civil rights activist and minister who co-founded key nonviolent protest organizations and played a significant role in early Freedom Rides and anti-apartheid efforts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Look Homeward, Angel ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | autobiographical novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| basedOn | Wolfe's father ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
domineering
ⓘ
larger-than-life ⓘ passionate ⓘ volatile ⓘ |
| createdBy | Thomas Wolfe ⓘ |
| familyName | Gant ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenNames | W. O. ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole |
father of Eugene Gant
ⓘ
husband ⓘ |
| literaryFunction | father figure ⓘ |
| medium | prose ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | stonecutter ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1929 ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
father
ⓘ
patriarch ⓘ |
| settingAssociatedWith | Altamont, North Carolina ⓘ |
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: W. O. Gant Description of subject: W. O. Gant is a passionate, larger-than-life stonecutter and the domineering, often volatile father figure in Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.