Charles Lomax
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Charles Lomax is a comic, somewhat ineffectual young aristocrat and suitor in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Major Barbara," representing the idle rich and their moral complacency.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Lomax canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11197073 — 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: Charles Lomax Context triple: [Major Barbara, mainCharacter, Charles Lomax]
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A.
Henry Simpson McComb
Henry Simpson McComb was a 19th-century American railroad executive whose influence on regional rail development led to the Mississippi city of McComb being named in his honor.
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B.
J.H. Braly
J.H. Braly was an individual significant enough in local or regional history that the city of Brawley, California, was named in his honor.
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C.
Horace Giddens
Horace Giddens is a central character in Lillian Hellman’s play "The Little Foxes," portrayed as the ailing, morally upright husband whose resistance to his ruthless in-laws’ schemes highlights the drama’s themes of greed and corruption.
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D.
L. Q. Jones
L. Q. Jones was an American character actor and director known for his frequent collaborations with filmmaker Sam Peckinpah and his role in the cult science fiction film "A Boy and His Dog."
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E.
H. M. Woodard
H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
- 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: Charles Lomax Target entity description: Charles Lomax is a comic, somewhat ineffectual young aristocrat and suitor in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Major Barbara," representing the idle rich and their moral complacency.
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A.
Henry Simpson McComb
Henry Simpson McComb was a 19th-century American railroad executive whose influence on regional rail development led to the Mississippi city of McComb being named in his honor.
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B.
J.H. Braly
J.H. Braly was an individual significant enough in local or regional history that the city of Brawley, California, was named in his honor.
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C.
Horace Giddens
Horace Giddens is a central character in Lillian Hellman’s play "The Little Foxes," portrayed as the ailing, morally upright husband whose resistance to his ruthless in-laws’ schemes highlights the drama’s themes of greed and corruption.
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D.
L. Q. Jones
L. Q. Jones was an American character actor and director known for his frequent collaborations with filmmaker Sam Peckinpah and his role in the cult science fiction film "A Boy and His Dog."
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E.
H. M. Woodard
H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aristocrat
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comic character ⓘ dramatic character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Major Barbara ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
comic
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ineffectual ⓘ morally complacent ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Bernard Shaw ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Major Barbara ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | play ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | none (idle rich) ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| represents |
idle rich
ⓘ
moral complacency of the upper class ⓘ |
| roleInWork | suitor ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | Irish (via George Bernard Shaw) ⓘ |
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: Charles Lomax Description of subject: Charles Lomax is a comic, somewhat ineffectual young aristocrat and suitor in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Major Barbara," representing the idle rich and their moral complacency.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
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