Simon Cotton
E1024634
Simon Cotton is a fictional character from the 2003 British romantic comedy-drama film "I Capture the Castle," adapted from Dodie Smith’s novel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon Cotton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13147606 — 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: Simon Cotton Context triple: [I Capture the Castle (2003 film), hasCharacter, Simon Cotton]
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A.
Jeral Wayne Williams
Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
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B.
Roy Bryant
Roy Bryant was a Mississippi shopkeeper whose accusation against Emmett Till and subsequent acquittal in Till’s 1955 lynching made him a central figure in one of the most infamous racially motivated murders in American history.
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C.
Daryl Renard Atkins
Daryl Renard Atkins is an American man whose capital murder case led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Atkins v. Virginia, which barred the execution of individuals with intellectual disabilities.
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D.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer better known by his stage name B.o.B.
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E.
Duane Martin
Duane Martin is an American actor and former basketball player best known for his roles in 1990s films and television series, often portraying charismatic, athletic characters.
- 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: Simon Cotton Target entity description: Simon Cotton is a fictional character from the 2003 British romantic comedy-drama film "I Capture the Castle," adapted from Dodie Smith’s novel.
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A.
Jeral Wayne Williams
Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
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B.
Roy Bryant
Roy Bryant was a Mississippi shopkeeper whose accusation against Emmett Till and subsequent acquittal in Till’s 1955 lynching made him a central figure in one of the most infamous racially motivated murders in American history.
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C.
Daryl Renard Atkins
Daryl Renard Atkins is an American man whose capital murder case led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Atkins v. Virginia, which barred the execution of individuals with intellectual disabilities.
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D.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer better known by his stage name B.o.B.
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E.
Duane Martin
Duane Martin is an American actor and former basketball player best known for his roles in 1990s films and television series, often portraying charismatic, athletic characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
I Capture the Castle (novel)
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linked to:
I Capture the Castle
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| appearsIn | I Capture the Castle ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | I Capture the Castle ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Dodie Smith ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Dodie Smith ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
I Capture the Castle universe
ⓘ
linked to:
I Capture the Castle
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| genreOfWork | romantic comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Simon Cotton ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 2003 ⓘ |
| workBasedOn |
I Capture the Castle (novel)
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linked to:
I Capture the Castle
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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: Simon Cotton Description of subject: Simon Cotton is a fictional character from the 2003 British romantic comedy-drama film "I Capture the Castle," adapted from Dodie Smith’s novel.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.