Thomas Rowley
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Thomas Rowley is the protagonist of Alan Garner’s science fiction novel "Red Shift," around whom the book’s interwoven time periods and psychological tensions revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Rowley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8130173 — 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: Thomas Rowley Context triple: [Red Shift, mainCharacter, Thomas Rowley]
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A.
Henry Spelman
Henry Spelman was a member of the prominent Spelman family of the 19th century, related to philanthropist Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
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B.
Paul Dudley
Paul Dudley was a prominent early 18th-century Massachusetts jurist and attorney general known for his influential role in the legal and political life of colonial New England.
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C.
Samuel Fielden
Samuel Fielden was a British-born American labor activist, socialist, and one of the anarchists controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
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D.
Thomas Sparrow
Thomas Sparrow was the individual after whom Sparrows Point in Maryland was named, likely an early landowner or notable figure associated with the area’s history.
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E.
John Norreys
John Norreys was an English soldier and commander of the late 16th century, noted for his prominent role in Elizabethan military campaigns in Europe.
- 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: Thomas Rowley Target entity description: Thomas Rowley is the protagonist of Alan Garner’s science fiction novel "Red Shift," around whom the book’s interwoven time periods and psychological tensions revolve.
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A.
Henry Spelman
Henry Spelman was a member of the prominent Spelman family of the 19th century, related to philanthropist Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
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B.
Paul Dudley
Paul Dudley was a prominent early 18th-century Massachusetts jurist and attorney general known for his influential role in the legal and political life of colonial New England.
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C.
Samuel Fielden
Samuel Fielden was a British-born American labor activist, socialist, and one of the anarchists controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
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D.
Thomas Sparrow
Thomas Sparrow was the individual after whom Sparrows Point in Maryland was named, likely an early landowner or notable figure associated with the area’s history.
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E.
John Norreys
John Norreys was an English soldier and commander of the late 16th century, noted for his prominent role in Elizabethan military campaigns in Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Red Shift ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
dislocation
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identity ⓘ psychological stress ⓘ time ⓘ |
| centralTo |
interwoven time periods in Red Shift
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psychological tensions in Red Shift ⓘ |
| characterType | psychologically complex character ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Alan Garner ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | Red Shift universe ⓘ |
| hasName | Thomas Rowley ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacterIn | Red Shift ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | critical analyses of Alan Garner’s Red Shift ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century British literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| partOf | Red Shift narrative structure ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Red Shift ⓘ |
| workPublishedIn | 1973 ⓘ |
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: Thomas Rowley Description of subject: Thomas Rowley is the protagonist of Alan Garner’s science fiction novel "Red Shift," around whom the book’s interwoven time periods and psychological tensions revolve.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.