Link Deas
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Link Deas is a white shopkeeper and landowner in Maycomb who stands out in *To Kill a Mockingbird* for his outspoken defense of Tom Robinson and his family against racial injustice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Link Deas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10808151 — 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: Link Deas Context triple: [Tom Robinson, employer, Link Deas]
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A.
Scharrel
Scharrel is a village in the municipality of Saterland in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its Saterland Frisian linguistic heritage.
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B.
Delson
Delson is a small suburban city located on Montreal's South Shore in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.
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C.
Lyrus
Lyrus is a minor figure in Greek and Roman mythology known primarily as a son of Anchises.
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D.
Garthdee
Garthdee is a riverside area in the southwest of Aberdeen, Scotland, known for hosting the main campus of Robert Gordon University.
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E.
Denio
Denio is a small unincorporated community in northern Nevada near the Oregon border, known for its remote high-desert setting and ranching heritage.
- 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: Link Deas Target entity description: Link Deas is a white shopkeeper and landowner in Maycomb who stands out in *To Kill a Mockingbird* for his outspoken defense of Tom Robinson and his family against racial injustice.
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A.
Scharrel
Scharrel is a village in the municipality of Saterland in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its Saterland Frisian linguistic heritage.
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B.
Delson
Delson is a small suburban city located on Montreal's South Shore in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.
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C.
Lyrus
Lyrus is a minor figure in Greek and Roman mythology known primarily as a son of Anchises.
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D.
Garthdee
Garthdee is a riverside area in the southwest of Aberdeen, Scotland, known for hosting the main campus of Robert Gordon University.
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E.
Denio
Denio is a small unincorporated community in northern Nevada near the Oregon border, known for its remote high-desert setting and ranching heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | trial of Tom Robinson ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Maycomb community
ⓘ
linked to:
Maycomb County, Alabama
Robinson family ⓘ |
| characterIn | To Kill a Mockingbird ⓘ |
| confronts | Bob Ewell ⓘ |
| createdBy | Harper Lee ⓘ |
| defends |
Helen Robinson
ⓘ
Tom Robinson ⓘ |
| employs |
Helen Robinson
ⓘ
Tom Robinson ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
| genre |
Bildungsroman
ⓘ
Southern Gothic ⓘ |
| literaryRole |
supporting character
ⓘ
symbol of white allyship ⓘ |
| moralAlignment |
anti-racist
ⓘ
just ⓘ |
| notableAction |
provides Helen Robinson with employment after Tom’s death
ⓘ
publicly vouches for Tom Robinson’s good character ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
ⓘ
shopkeeper ⓘ |
| opposes | racial injustice ⓘ |
| race | white ⓘ |
| residence |
Maycomb
ⓘ
linked to:
Maycomb County, Alabama
|
| settingOfActivity | Maycomb County, Alabama ⓘ |
| speaksOutFor | Tom Robinson in court ⓘ |
| supports | Tom Robinson ⓘ |
| warns |
Bob Ewell to stop harassing Helen Robinson
ⓘ
linked to:
Bob Ewell
|
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: Link Deas Description of subject: Link Deas is a white shopkeeper and landowner in Maycomb who stands out in *To Kill a Mockingbird* for his outspoken defense of Tom Robinson and his family against racial injustice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.