Sir Danvers Carew
E573095
Sir Danvers Carew is a kindly, elderly member of Parliament whose brutal murder by Mr. Hyde serves as a pivotal turning point in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir Danvers Carew canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6168683 — 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: Sir Danvers Carew Context triple: [Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, hasCharacter, Sir Danvers Carew]
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A.
George Clayton Tennyson
George Clayton Tennyson was an English clergyman and lawyer best known as the father of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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B.
James Montague
James Montague was an English bishop and royal chaplain under James I, known for his role in early 17th-century religious politics and support of the king’s ecclesiastical policies.
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C.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a British poet, diplomat, and political activist known for his anti-imperialist views and his writings criticizing British foreign policy.
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D.
Edward Marsh
Edward Marsh was a British civil servant, patron of the arts, and influential literary figure best known for championing and editing early 20th-century Georgian poets.
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E.
Arthur Lyttelton
Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
- 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: Sir Danvers Carew Target entity description: Sir Danvers Carew is a kindly, elderly member of Parliament whose brutal murder by Mr. Hyde serves as a pivotal turning point in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
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A.
George Clayton Tennyson
George Clayton Tennyson was an English clergyman and lawyer best known as the father of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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B.
James Montague
James Montague was an English bishop and royal chaplain under James I, known for his role in early 17th-century religious politics and support of the king’s ecclesiastical policies.
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C.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a British poet, diplomat, and political activist known for his anti-imperialist views and his writings criticizing British foreign policy.
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D.
Edward Marsh
Edward Marsh was a British civil servant, patron of the arts, and influential literary figure best known for championing and editing early 20th-century Georgian poets.
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E.
Arthur Lyttelton
Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkByAuthorNationality | Scottish author ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dr. Henry Jekyll
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Mr. Edward Hyde ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | murder ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
elderly
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kindly ⓘ |
| createdBy | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | novella ⓘ |
| genreContext |
Gothic fiction
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psychological horror ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Mr. Hyde
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linked to:
Mr. Edward Hyde
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| narrativeFunction |
illustrates Hyde’s brutality
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victim of violence ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | member of Parliament ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | pivotal turning point ⓘ |
| settingContext | Victorian London ⓘ |
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: Sir Danvers Carew Description of subject: Sir Danvers Carew is a kindly, elderly member of Parliament whose brutal murder by Mr. Hyde serves as a pivotal turning point in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.