Richard Semco
E1006315
Richard Semco is a character in Patricia Highsmith’s novel "The Price of Salt" (also known as "Carol"), serving as Therese Belivet’s early boyfriend and a contrast to her later same-sex relationship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Semco canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12859857 — 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: Richard Semco Context triple: [Therese Belivet, romanticPartner, Richard Semco]
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A.
Eric Sears
Eric Sears is a film editor known for his work on action and thriller movies, including the 2007 film "Shooter."
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B.
Richard Sohl
Richard Sohl was an American pianist and keyboardist best known for his work with the Patti Smith Group and other influential punk and rock acts of the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Steve Roehm
Steve Roehm is an American vibraphonist and percussionist best known for his work with the Minneapolis-based supergroup Gayngs and various jazz and experimental music projects.
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D.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
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E.
Robert Seaman
Robert Seaman was a wealthy American industrialist and manufacturer who became known as the husband of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly.
- 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: Richard Semco Target entity description: Richard Semco is a character in Patricia Highsmith’s novel "The Price of Salt" (also known as "Carol"), serving as Therese Belivet’s early boyfriend and a contrast to her later same-sex relationship.
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A.
Eric Sears
Eric Sears is a film editor known for his work on action and thriller movies, including the 2007 film "Shooter."
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B.
Richard Sohl
Richard Sohl was an American pianist and keyboardist best known for his work with the Patti Smith Group and other influential punk and rock acts of the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Steve Roehm
Steve Roehm is an American vibraphonist and percussionist best known for his work with the Minneapolis-based supergroup Gayngs and various jazz and experimental music projects.
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D.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
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E.
Robert Seaman
Robert Seaman was a wealthy American industrialist and manufacturer who became known as the husband of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Carol
ⓘ
The Price of Salt ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
lesbian literature
ⓘ
romantic novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
heterosexual relationship
ⓘ
romantic conflict ⓘ sexual identity exploration ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Patricia Highsmith ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1952 ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Therese Belivet ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | contrast to Therese Belivet’s later same-sex relationship ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
The Price of Salt / Carol universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Price of Salt
|
| publicationContext | mid-20th-century American novel ⓘ |
| roleInWork | Therese Belivet’s early boyfriend ⓘ |
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: Richard Semco Description of subject: Richard Semco is a character in Patricia Highsmith’s novel "The Price of Salt" (also known as "Carol"), serving as Therese Belivet’s early boyfriend and a contrast to her later same-sex relationship.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Therese Belivet in Carol
subject linked to:
Therese Belivet in Carol
subject linked to:
Therese Belivet (novel character)