Darby Suckling
E1000288
Darby Suckling is a fictional member of the aeronaut adventurer group the Chums of Chance in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Against the Day."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Darby Suckling canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12759817 — 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: Darby Suckling Context triple: [The Chums of Chance, hasMember, Darby Suckling]
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A.
Catherine Suckling
Catherine Suckling was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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B.
Alice Clopton
Alice Clopton is best known as the former wife of civil rights leader and politician Julian Bond.
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C.
Joanna Drayton
Joanna Drayton is a central character in the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," a young white woman who brings her Black fiancé home to meet her liberal but challenged parents, driving the film’s exploration of interracial marriage and social prejudice.
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D.
Jenny-Lynn Suckling
Jenny-Lynn Suckling is the wife of American stage and screen actor J. Robert Spencer, known for his work in musical theatre.
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E.
Thomas Holy Suckley
Thomas Holy Suckley was a 19th-century member of a prominent New York family who originally owned the estate now preserved as the Wilderstein Historic Site in Rhinebeck, New York.
- 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: Darby Suckling Target entity description: Darby Suckling is a fictional member of the aeronaut adventurer group the Chums of Chance in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Against the Day."
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A.
Catherine Suckling
Catherine Suckling was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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B.
Alice Clopton
Alice Clopton is best known as the former wife of civil rights leader and politician Julian Bond.
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C.
Joanna Drayton
Joanna Drayton is a central character in the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," a young white woman who brings her Black fiancé home to meet her liberal but challenged parents, driving the film’s exploration of interracial marriage and social prejudice.
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D.
Jenny-Lynn Suckling
Jenny-Lynn Suckling is the wife of American stage and screen actor J. Robert Spencer, known for his work in musical theatre.
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E.
Thomas Holy Suckley
Thomas Holy Suckley was a 19th-century member of a prominent New York family who originally owned the estate now preserved as the Wilderstein Historic Site in Rhinebeck, New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Against the Day ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Thomas Pynchon ⓘ |
| associatedWith | airship Inconvenience ⓘ |
| authorStyleContext | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States (author’s nationality) ⓘ |
| creator | Thomas Pynchon ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Against the Day ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Against the Day ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
speculative fiction ⓘ |
| groupType |
Chums of Chance are boy-adventurer aeronauts
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linked to:
The Chums of Chance
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| hasFictionalStatus | member of aeronaut adventurer group ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext |
alternate history
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science fantasy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | postmodernism ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Chums of Chance
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linked to:
The Chums of Chance
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| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | aeronaut ⓘ |
| partOf |
Chums of Chance story arc
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linked to:
The Chums of Chance
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| setIn | late 19th and early 20th century (fictionalized setting) ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 2006 (Against the Day) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Darby Suckling Description of subject: Darby Suckling is a fictional member of the aeronaut adventurer group the Chums of Chance in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Against the Day."
Referenced by (2)
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