Mr Poyser
E1009631
Mr Poyser is a fictional farmer and the good-natured, plain-spoken husband of Mrs. Poyser in George Eliot’s novel "Adam Bede."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr Poyser canonical | 1 |
| Mr. Poyser | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12884448 — 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: Mr Poyser Context triple: [Mrs Poyser, hasSpouse, Mr Poyser]
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A.
Alan Davies
Alan Davies is an English comedian, actor, and writer best known for his stand-up comedy and his long-running role as a panellist on the British quiz show QI.
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B.
Matt Passmore
Matt Passmore is an Australian actor best known for his leading role in the TV crime drama "The Glades" and for appearing in the "Jigsaw" installment of the Saw film franchise.
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C.
Nick Hewer
Nick Hewer is a British television presenter and former public relations consultant best known for hosting the long-running game show "Countdown" and appearing as Lord Sugar’s adviser on "The Apprentice."
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D.
Adam Hart-Davis
Adam Hart-Davis is a British scientist, author, photographer, and television presenter best known for popular science and history programs such as "Local Heroes" and "What the Romans Did for Us."
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E.
Richard Madeley
Richard Madeley is a British television presenter and journalist best known for his long-running on-screen partnership with his wife Judy Finnigan on shows such as "This Morning" and "Richard & Judy."
- 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: Mr Poyser Target entity description: Mr Poyser is a fictional farmer and the good-natured, plain-spoken husband of Mrs. Poyser in George Eliot’s novel "Adam Bede."
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A.
Alan Davies
Alan Davies is an English comedian, actor, and writer best known for his stand-up comedy and his long-running role as a panellist on the British quiz show QI.
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B.
Matt Passmore
Matt Passmore is an Australian actor best known for his leading role in the TV crime drama "The Glades" and for appearing in the "Jigsaw" installment of the Saw film franchise.
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C.
Nick Hewer
Nick Hewer is a British television presenter and former public relations consultant best known for hosting the long-running game show "Countdown" and appearing as Lord Sugar’s adviser on "The Apprentice."
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D.
Adam Hart-Davis
Adam Hart-Davis is a British scientist, author, photographer, and television presenter best known for popular science and history programs such as "Local Heroes" and "What the Romans Did for Us."
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E.
Richard Madeley
Richard Madeley is a British television presenter and journalist best known for his long-running on-screen partnership with his wife Judy Finnigan on shows such as "This Morning" and "Richard & Judy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
farmer
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Adam Bede ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Adam Bede (character)
ⓘ
linked to:
Adam Bede
Dinah Morris ⓘ Hayslope community ⓘ Mrs Poyser ⓘ |
| authorPseudonymCreator |
Mary Ann Evans
ⓘ
linked to:
George Eliot
|
| characterTrait |
good-natured
ⓘ
plain-spoken ⓘ |
| creator | George Eliot ⓘ |
| familyRole |
father
ⓘ
husband ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Adam Bede ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Adam Bede ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | realist novel ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| residence |
Hall Farm
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Hayslope ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | rural England ⓘ |
| spouse | Mrs Poyser ⓘ |
| workAuthorPseudonym | George Eliot ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1859 ⓘ |
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: Mr Poyser Description of subject: Mr Poyser is a fictional farmer and the good-natured, plain-spoken husband of Mrs. Poyser in George Eliot’s novel "Adam Bede."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mr Poyser