Jake Marpole
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Jake Marpole is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a hired hand who works for the Burden family on their Nebraska farm.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jake Marpole canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423414 — 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: Jake Marpole Context triple: [My Ántonia, character, Jake Marpole]
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A.
Hudson Fysh
Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman best known as a co-founder and long-serving leader of Qantas, helping to establish it as a major international airline.
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B.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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C.
Jasper Palmer
Jasper Palmer is a quirky, aging former political cartoonist and marijuana-growing recluse who serves as a wise, compassionate ally to the protagonists in the dystopian film "Children of Men."
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D.
Spencer Rivers
Spencer Rivers is the son of American sportscaster and former NBA player Doc Rivers.
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E.
Nathaniel Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby is an American former amateur golfer and golf industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
- 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: Jake Marpole Target entity description: Jake Marpole is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a hired hand who works for the Burden family on their Nebraska farm.
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A.
Hudson Fysh
Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman best known as a co-founder and long-serving leader of Qantas, helping to establish it as a major international airline.
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B.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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C.
Jasper Palmer
Jasper Palmer is a quirky, aging former political cartoonist and marijuana-growing recluse who serves as a wise, compassionate ally to the protagonists in the dystopian film "Children of Men."
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D.
Spencer Rivers
Spencer Rivers is the son of American sportscaster and former NBA player Doc Rivers.
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E.
Nathaniel Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby is an American former amateur golfer and golf industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
farm hand
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ hired man ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | My Ántonia ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
novel
ⓘ
pioneer fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Burden grandparents
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Jim Burden ⓘ |
| createdBy | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| employedBy |
Burden family
ⓘ
Jim Burden's grandparents ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
My Ántonia (1918)
ⓘ
linked to:
My Ántonia
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| occupation |
farm laborer
ⓘ
hired hand ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of characters in My Ántonia ⓘ |
| residesIn | Nebraska (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor character in My Ántonia ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
American Great Plains
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Plains
rural Nebraska ⓘ |
| worksAt |
Burden family farm
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linked to:
Burden farm
Nebraska farm ⓘ |
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: Jake Marpole Description of subject: Jake Marpole is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a hired hand who works for the Burden family on their Nebraska farm.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.