Gulley Jimson
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Gulley Jimson is a disreputable, obsessive, and eccentric aging painter who serves as the roguish antihero of Joyce Cary’s comic novel "The Horse’s Mouth."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gulley Jimson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4609621 — 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: Gulley Jimson Context triple: [The Horse’s Mouth, mainCharacter, Gulley Jimson]
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A.
Marty Fogg
Marty Fogg is a musician and composer known for creating the music for the song "I'm Still Here."
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B.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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C.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
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D.
Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim is a 1919 silent comedy film adaptation of a P. G. Wodehouse story, starring actor Owen Moore in the title role.
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E.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
- 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: Gulley Jimson Target entity description: Gulley Jimson is a disreputable, obsessive, and eccentric aging painter who serves as the roguish antihero of Joyce Cary’s comic novel "The Horse’s Mouth."
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A.
Marty Fogg
Marty Fogg is a musician and composer known for creating the music for the song "I'm Still Here."
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B.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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C.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
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D.
Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim is a 1919 silent comedy film adaptation of a P. G. Wodehouse story, starring actor Owen Moore in the title role.
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E.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antihero
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| adaptationNote | portrayed by Alec Guinness in the 1958 film adaptation of The Horse’s Mouth ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Horse’s Mouth ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | The First Trilogy ⓘ |
| artForm | painting ⓘ |
| associatedWith | bohemian London art scene ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
aging
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disreputable ⓘ eccentric ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| characterType | roguish antihero ⓘ |
| creator | Joyce Cary ⓘ |
| genreContext | comic novel ⓘ |
| literaryFunction | satire of the art world ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| medium | oil painting ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| notableWorkInFiction | large murals ⓘ |
| occupation | painter ⓘ |
| personality |
cynical
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manipulative ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| relationshipToArt | obsessively devoted ⓘ |
| setting |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| socialStatus | impoverished ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
art and obsession
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bohemian life ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Gulley Jimson Description of subject: Gulley Jimson is a disreputable, obsessive, and eccentric aging painter who serves as the roguish antihero of Joyce Cary’s comic novel "The Horse’s Mouth."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.