Duncan Wedderburn
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Duncan Wedderburn is a flamboyant, hedonistic lawyer who serves as one of Bella Baxter’s main companions and antagonistic foils in the surreal, darkly comic world of "Poor Things."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duncan Wedderburn canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6332968 — 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: Duncan Wedderburn Context triple: [Poor Things, character, Duncan Wedderburn]
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A.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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B.
Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Minister of Supply during the Second World War.
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C.
Alexander Wedderburn
Alexander Wedderburn was an 18th-century Scottish lawyer and politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and was influential in Edinburgh’s intellectual and legal circles.
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D.
Felix Salmond
Felix Salmond was a prominent early 20th-century British cellist and influential teacher, known for premiering Elgar’s Cello Concerto and shaping generations of American string players.
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E.
Lord McAlpine
Lord McAlpine was a British Conservative politician, businessman, and party treasurer best known for his close association with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
- 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: Duncan Wedderburn Target entity description: Duncan Wedderburn is a flamboyant, hedonistic lawyer who serves as one of Bella Baxter’s main companions and antagonistic foils in the surreal, darkly comic world of "Poor Things."
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A.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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B.
Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Minister of Supply during the Second World War.
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C.
Alexander Wedderburn
Alexander Wedderburn was an 18th-century Scottish lawyer and politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and was influential in Edinburgh’s intellectual and legal circles.
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D.
Felix Salmond
Felix Salmond was a prominent early 20th-century British cellist and influential teacher, known for premiering Elgar’s Cello Concerto and shaping generations of American string players.
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E.
Lord McAlpine
Lord McAlpine was a British Conservative politician, businessman, and party treasurer best known for his close association with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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lawyer ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Poor Things ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
flamboyant
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hedonistic ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | antagonistic foil to Bella Baxter ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
antagonist
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companion of Bella Baxter ⓘ |
| setting | surreal world of Poor Things ⓘ |
| toneContext | darkly comic narrative ⓘ |
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: Duncan Wedderburn Description of subject: Duncan Wedderburn is a flamboyant, hedonistic lawyer who serves as one of Bella Baxter’s main companions and antagonistic foils in the surreal, darkly comic world of "Poor Things."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.