Colonel James Langdon
E1029400
Colonel James Langdon is the central Confederate officer protagonist in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Undefeated,” around whom the narrative’s themes of honor and resilience revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel James Langdon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13236329 — 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: Colonel James Langdon Context triple: [The Undefeated, hasMainCharacter, Colonel James Langdon]
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A.
Colonel Henry Procter
Colonel Henry Procter was a British Army officer in the War of 1812, known for his controversial leadership in the Detroit frontier campaigns and his role in the aftermath of the River Raisin defeat.
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B.
Gilmore D. Clarke
Gilmore D. Clarke was an influential American landscape architect and civil engineer known for shaping major public works and parkways in New York during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Charles Guard
Charles Guard is a British filmmaker known for co-directing the horror film "The Uninvited" and for being married to actress Felicity Jones.
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D.
John Colby
John Colby is a composer best known for creating the iconic theme music used in NBC’s National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts.
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E.
William Woodbridge
William Woodbridge was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Woodbridge, Connecticut, was named.
- 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: Colonel James Langdon Target entity description: Colonel James Langdon is the central Confederate officer protagonist in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Undefeated,” around whom the narrative’s themes of honor and resilience revolve.
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A.
Colonel Henry Procter
Colonel Henry Procter was a British Army officer in the War of 1812, known for his controversial leadership in the Detroit frontier campaigns and his role in the aftermath of the River Raisin defeat.
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B.
Gilmore D. Clarke
Gilmore D. Clarke was an influential American landscape architect and civil engineer known for shaping major public works and parkways in New York during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Charles Guard
Charles Guard is a British filmmaker known for co-directing the horror film "The Uninvited" and for being married to actress Felicity Jones.
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D.
John Colby
John Colby is a composer best known for creating the iconic theme music used in NBC’s National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts.
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E.
William Woodbridge
William Woodbridge was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Woodbridge, Connecticut, was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
"The Undefeated"
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linked to:
The Undefeated
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| associatedTheme |
honor
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resilience ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalAllegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Ernest Hemingway ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
the short story "The Undefeated"
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linked to:
The Undefeated
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Colonel ⓘ |
| militarySide | Confederate officer ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central protagonist ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Ernest Hemingway ⓘ |
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: Colonel James Langdon Description of subject: Colonel James Langdon is the central Confederate officer protagonist in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Undefeated,” around whom the narrative’s themes of honor and resilience revolve.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.