Edward Henry Machin
E1007020
Edward Henry Machin is the ambitious, self-made businessman protagonist of Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Card," known for his resourcefulness and social climbing in the fictional town of Bursley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Henry Machin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12866981 — 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: Edward Henry Machin Context triple: [The Card, mainCharacter, Edward Henry Machin]
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A.
Ozias Humphry
Ozias Humphry was an 18th-century English portrait painter and miniaturist known for his refined style and for depicting prominent figures of his time.
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B.
Daniel Horsmanden
Daniel Horsmanden was an 18th-century New York judge and diarist best known for orchestrating and documenting the controversial trials during the 1741 slave conspiracy panic.
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C.
William Jessop
William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
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D.
Henry Cooke
Henry Cooke is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Cooke.
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E.
Peter Barlow
Peter Barlow was a 19th-century English mathematician and physicist known for his work in number theory, optics, and for Barlow's Tables of mathematical functions.
- 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: Edward Henry Machin Target entity description: Edward Henry Machin is the ambitious, self-made businessman protagonist of Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Card," known for his resourcefulness and social climbing in the fictional town of Bursley.
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A.
Ozias Humphry
Ozias Humphry was an 18th-century English portrait painter and miniaturist known for his refined style and for depicting prominent figures of his time.
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B.
Daniel Horsmanden
Daniel Horsmanden was an 18th-century New York judge and diarist best known for orchestrating and documenting the controversial trials during the 1741 slave conspiracy panic.
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C.
William Jessop
William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
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D.
Henry Cooke
Henry Cooke is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Cooke.
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E.
Peter Barlow
Peter Barlow was a 19th-century English mathematician and physicist known for his work in number theory, optics, and for Barlow's Tables of mathematical functions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Card ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bursley Town Council
ⓘ
local politics in Bursley ⓘ |
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arnold Bennett ⓘ |
| createdInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| createdInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Machin ⓘ |
| fictionalRegion |
The Five Towns
ⓘ
linked to:
Five Towns
|
| fictionalSetting | Bursley ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | The Card ⓘ |
| fullName | Edward Henry Machin ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Edward
ⓘ
Henry ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | comic novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | satire of provincial society ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| nickname | Denry ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
ambitious
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opportunistic ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| socialStatus | self-made man ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
class mobility
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social climbing ⓘ |
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: Edward Henry Machin Description of subject: Edward Henry Machin is the ambitious, self-made businessman protagonist of Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Card," known for his resourcefulness and social climbing in the fictional town of Bursley.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.