Webb
E861551
Webb is a character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Coming Through Slaughter," involved in the fragmented, jazz-infused narrative surrounding the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Webb canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10391654 — 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: Webb Context triple: [Coming Through Slaughter, hasCharacter, Webb]
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A.
Webb
Webb is the given name of American actor, dancer, and singer Clifton Webb, known for his sophisticated film roles in the mid-20th century.
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B.
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is a large, space-based observatory designed to study the universe in infrared light, revealing the formation of the first galaxies, stars, and planetary systems with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution.
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C.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a next-generation NASA observatory designed to study dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics with a wide-field view of the universe.
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D.
Kepler space telescope
The Kepler space telescope was a NASA space observatory designed to discover Earth-size exoplanets by continuously monitoring the brightness of over 150,000 stars.
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E.
Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope was a NASA infrared space observatory that studied the universe in long-wavelength light, revealing cold, dusty, and distant objects invisible to optical telescopes.
- 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: Webb Target entity description: Webb is a character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Coming Through Slaughter," involved in the fragmented, jazz-infused narrative surrounding the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden.
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A.
Webb
Webb is the given name of American actor, dancer, and singer Clifton Webb, known for his sophisticated film roles in the mid-20th century.
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B.
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is a large, space-based observatory designed to study the universe in infrared light, revealing the formation of the first galaxies, stars, and planetary systems with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution.
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C.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a next-generation NASA observatory designed to study dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics with a wide-field view of the universe.
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D.
Kepler space telescope
The Kepler space telescope was a NASA space observatory designed to discover Earth-size exoplanets by continuously monitoring the brightness of over 150,000 stars.
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E.
Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope was a NASA infrared space observatory that studied the universe in long-wavelength light, revealing cold, dusty, and distant objects invisible to optical telescopes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Coming Through Slaughter ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
novel
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postmodern fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Buddy Bolden ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
identity
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improvisation ⓘ jazz ⓘ madness ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| characterInWorkBy | Michael Ondaatje ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| createdBy | Michael Ondaatje ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeStyleContext |
fragmented narrative
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jazz-infused narrative ⓘ |
| setInWorkContext | New Orleans ⓘ |
| setInWorkTimePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Webb Description of subject: Webb is a character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Coming Through Slaughter," involved in the fragmented, jazz-infused narrative surrounding the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.