Timmy Durrant
E946065
Timmy Durrant is a minor but symbolically important character in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Jacob’s Room," representing youthful vitality and the losses wrought by war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Timmy Durrant canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11777197 — 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: Timmy Durrant Context triple: [Jacob's Room, hasCharacter, Timmy Durrant]
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A.
Jonny Dymond
Jonny Dymond is a British journalist and broadcaster best known as a BBC correspondent and royal commentator.
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B.
Adrian Dowell
Adrian Dowell is a collegiate sports executive who serves as the athletic director for the University of Nebraska Omaha’s Omaha Mavericks athletic program.
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C.
Darren Eales
Darren Eales is a British football executive known for serving as president of Major League Soccer club Atlanta United FC, where he helped build the expansion team into a successful franchise.
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D.
Timothy Lillicrap
Timothy Lillicrap is a Canadian neuroscientist and deep learning researcher at DeepMind known for his contributions to reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence systems.
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E.
Darren Wharton
Darren Wharton is a British keyboardist and songwriter best known for his work with the hard rock band Thin Lizzy and later as the frontman of the band Dare.
- 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: Timmy Durrant Target entity description: Timmy Durrant is a minor but symbolically important character in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Jacob’s Room," representing youthful vitality and the losses wrought by war.
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A.
Jonny Dymond
Jonny Dymond is a British journalist and broadcaster best known as a BBC correspondent and royal commentator.
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B.
Adrian Dowell
Adrian Dowell is a collegiate sports executive who serves as the athletic director for the University of Nebraska Omaha’s Omaha Mavericks athletic program.
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C.
Darren Eales
Darren Eales is a British football executive known for serving as president of Major League Soccer club Atlanta United FC, where he helped build the expansion team into a successful franchise.
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D.
Timothy Lillicrap
Timothy Lillicrap is a Canadian neuroscientist and deep learning researcher at DeepMind known for his contributions to reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence systems.
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E.
Darren Wharton
Darren Wharton is a British keyboardist and songwriter best known for his work with the hard rock band Thin Lizzy and later as the frontman of the band Dare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Jacob’s Room
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linked to:
“Jacob’s Room”
|
| associatedWithTheme |
loss
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mortality ⓘ war ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom (fictional)
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linked to:
United Kingdom (work of fiction)
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| creator | Virginia Woolf ⓘ |
| depictedAs | young man ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Jacob’s Room
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linked to:
“Jacob’s Room”
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| narrativeRole |
minor character
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symbolic figure ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
the losses wrought by war
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youthful vitality ⓘ |
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: Timmy Durrant Description of subject: Timmy Durrant is a minor but symbolically important character in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Jacob’s Room," representing youthful vitality and the losses wrought by war.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“Jacob’s Room”