Charles Strickland
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Charles Strickland is the fictional stockbroker-turned-artist protagonist of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel "The Moon and Sixpence," loosely inspired by the life of painter Paul Gauguin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Strickland canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11665212 — 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 Strickland Context triple: [Strickland, hasNotableBearer, Charles Strickland]
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A.
Bernard Scudder
Bernard Scudder was a British translator best known for bringing Icelandic crime fiction, including Arnaldur Indriðason’s novels, to English-speaking audiences.
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B.
Paul Kincaid
Paul Kincaid is a British critic and reviewer best known for his work on science fiction and speculative literature.
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C.
Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael is a British-American screenwriter, novelist, and essayist best known for his sharp, literate scripts and collaborations with prominent directors such as Stanley Kubrick.
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D.
Peter Dasent
Peter Dasent is a New Zealand-based film and television composer best known for his work on scores for director Peter Jackson and various children’s programs.
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E.
Albert Woolson
Albert Woolson was an American Civil War veteran widely recognized as the last surviving member of the Union veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic.
- 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 Strickland Target entity description: Charles Strickland is the fictional stockbroker-turned-artist protagonist of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel "The Moon and Sixpence," loosely inspired by the life of painter Paul Gauguin.
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A.
Bernard Scudder
Bernard Scudder was a British translator best known for bringing Icelandic crime fiction, including Arnaldur Indriðason’s novels, to English-speaking audiences.
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B.
Paul Kincaid
Paul Kincaid is a British critic and reviewer best known for his work on science fiction and speculative literature.
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C.
Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael is a British-American screenwriter, novelist, and essayist best known for his sharp, literate scripts and collaborations with prominent directors such as Stanley Kubrick.
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D.
Peter Dasent
Peter Dasent is a New Zealand-based film and television composer best known for his work on scores for director Peter Jackson and various children’s programs.
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E.
Albert Woolson
Albert Woolson was an American Civil War veteran widely recognized as the last surviving member of the Union veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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fictional painter ⓘ fictional stockbroker ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Moon and Sixpence ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
artistic obsession
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bohemian lifestyle ⓘ sacrifice for art ⓘ |
| basedOn | life and legend of Paul Gauguin ⓘ |
| createdBy | W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ |
| diesIn | Tahiti ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYearOfWork | 1919 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasNarrator | unnamed narrator resembling W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Paul Gauguin ⓘ |
| laterMovesTo | Tahiti ⓘ |
| leaves | his family in London ⓘ |
| literaryRole | anti-hero ⓘ |
| movesTo | Paris ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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painter ⓘ |
| occupationBeforeArt | stockbroker ⓘ |
| paints | post-Impressionist-style works ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
driven by artistic vision
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morally ruthless ⓘ socially indifferent ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Moon and Sixpence ⓘ |
| setIn | late 19th century / early 20th century artistic milieu ⓘ |
| suffersFrom | leprosy ⓘ |
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 Strickland Description of subject: Charles Strickland is the fictional stockbroker-turned-artist protagonist of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel "The Moon and Sixpence," loosely inspired by the life of painter Paul Gauguin.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.