Nicholas Bulstrode
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Nicholas Bulstrode is a wealthy, pious-seeming banker in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch" whose hidden past and moral hypocrisy become central to the story’s social and ethical conflicts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicholas Bulstrode canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12960782 — 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: Nicholas Bulstrode Context triple: [Middlemarch (fictional town), associatedWithCharacter, Nicholas Bulstrode]
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Mr. Chipping
Mr. Chipping is the gentle, aging schoolmaster at the heart of James Hilton’s novella "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," known for his lifelong dedication to teaching and his quiet, enduring impact on generations of students.
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B.
William Boldwood
William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
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C.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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D.
Mr. Grimsdale
Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
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E.
Godfrey Cass
Godfrey Cass is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," known as a morally conflicted landowner whose secret past and weak resolve shape much of the story’s drama.
- 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: Nicholas Bulstrode Target entity description: Nicholas Bulstrode is a wealthy, pious-seeming banker in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch" whose hidden past and moral hypocrisy become central to the story’s social and ethical conflicts.
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A.
Mr. Chipping
Mr. Chipping is the gentle, aging schoolmaster at the heart of James Hilton’s novella "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," known for his lifelong dedication to teaching and his quiet, enduring impact on generations of students.
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B.
William Boldwood
William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
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C.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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D.
Mr. Grimsdale
Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
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E.
Godfrey Cass
Godfrey Cass is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," known as a morally conflicted landowner whose secret past and weak resolve shape much of the story’s drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
banker
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Middlemarch ⓘ |
| blackmailedBy | John Raffles ⓘ |
| centralThemeRole |
embodiment of religious hypocrisy
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example of compromised conscience ⓘ focus of social and ethical conflict in Middlemarch ⓘ |
| creator | George Eliot ⓘ |
| experiences |
public disgrace
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religious and moral crisis ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Middlemarch ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
Middlemarch (1871–1872 serial publication)
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linked to:
Middlemarch
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| formerBusinessPartner | John Raffles ⓘ |
| formerEmployer | Mr. Dunkirk ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | Victorian realist novel ⓘ |
| hasSecretPast |
involvement in disreputable pawnbroking and stolen goods trade
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profited from concealment of a missing heir ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Caleb Garth
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Dorothea Brooke ⓘ Mr. Farebrother ⓘ Tertius Lydgate ⓘ Will Ladislaw ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| moralCharacteristic |
calculating
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guilty ⓘ hypocritical ⓘ pious-seeming ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
illustrates tension between wealth and morality
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reveals limits of Evangelical respectability in provincial society ⓘ tests the integrity of Tertius Lydgate ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | banker ⓘ |
| owns | Bulstrode’s bank ⓘ |
| patronOf | New Hospital in Middlemarch ⓘ |
| relative | Harriet Bulstrode ⓘ |
| religiousIdentity | Evangelical Protestant ⓘ |
| residence | Middlemarch ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | circumstances leading to John Raffles’s death ⓘ |
| socialRole |
philanthropist
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prominent citizen of Middlemarch ⓘ |
| spouse | Harriet Bulstrode ⓘ |
| stepdaughter | Laure ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Nicholas Bulstrode Description of subject: Nicholas Bulstrode is a wealthy, pious-seeming banker in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch" whose hidden past and moral hypocrisy become central to the story’s social and ethical conflicts.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.