James Axton
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James Axton is the American academic-turned-intelligence analyst who narrates and anchors Don DeLillo’s novel *The Names*, exploring themes of language, terrorism, and cultural dislocation in the late 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Axton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3315241 — 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: James Axton Context triple: [The Names, mainCharacter, James Axton]
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A.
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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C.
Cliff Booth
Cliff Booth is a fictional World War II veteran and stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," known for his stoic demeanor, combat skills, and loyal partnership with actor Rick Dalton.
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D.
Les Baxter
Les Baxter was an American composer and arranger best known for pioneering the exotica genre and creating lush, atmospheric orchestral pop recordings in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Charles Storrs
Charles Storrs was a benefactor and early supporter of the institution that became the University of Connecticut, for whom the town of Storrs is named.
- 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: James Axton Target entity description: James Axton is the American academic-turned-intelligence analyst who narrates and anchors Don DeLillo’s novel *The Names*, exploring themes of language, terrorism, and cultural dislocation in the late 20th century.
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A.
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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C.
Cliff Booth
Cliff Booth is a fictional World War II veteran and stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," known for his stoic demeanor, combat skills, and loyal partnership with actor Rick Dalton.
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D.
Les Baxter
Les Baxter was an American composer and arranger best known for pioneering the exotica genre and creating lush, atmospheric orchestral pop recordings in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Charles Storrs
Charles Storrs was a benefactor and early supporter of the institution that became the University of Connecticut, for whom the town of Storrs is named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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novel protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Names ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| centralThemeContext |
cultural dislocation
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language ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Names ⓘ |
| createdBy | Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
academia
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intelligence analysis ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| literaryRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | works of Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | anchor of the novel’s exploration of language and violence ⓘ |
| narratorOf | The Names ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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intelligence analyst ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
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: James Axton Description of subject: James Axton is the American academic-turned-intelligence analyst who narrates and anchors Don DeLillo’s novel *The Names*, exploring themes of language, terrorism, and cultural dislocation in the late 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.