Roskus
E1042814
Roskus is a servant in the Compson household in William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury," known for his superstitious nature and weary outlook.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roskus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13467025 — 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: Roskus Context triple: [Compson, hasFamilyMember, Roskus]
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A.
Russy
Russy is a small municipality located in the Broye district of the canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland.
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B.
Evilenko
Evilenko is a 2004 psychological horror-thriller film loosely inspired by the crimes of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
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C.
Rikrok
Rikrok is a British-Jamaican reggae singer best known for his featured vocals on Shaggy’s global hit single “It Wasn't Me.”
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D.
Zabivaka
Zabivaka is the wolf character that served as the official mascot for major international football tournaments hosted by Russia, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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E.
Rogat
Rogat is a small village in the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its rural character and location within the municipality of De Wolden.
- 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: Roskus Target entity description: Roskus is a servant in the Compson household in William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury," known for his superstitious nature and weary outlook.
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A.
Russy
Russy is a small municipality located in the Broye district of the canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland.
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B.
Evilenko
Evilenko is a 2004 psychological horror-thriller film loosely inspired by the crimes of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
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C.
Rikrok
Rikrok is a British-Jamaican reggae singer best known for his featured vocals on Shaggy’s global hit single “It Wasn't Me.”
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D.
Zabivaka
Zabivaka is the wolf character that served as the official mascot for major international football tournaments hosted by Russia, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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E.
Rogat
Rogat is a small village in the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its rural character and location within the municipality of De Wolden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ servant ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Sound and the Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | Compson family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Jefferson, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
decay of the Southern aristocracy
ⓘ
race relations in the American South ⓘ suffering ⓘ superstition ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employedBy |
Compson family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Compson household NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Sound and the Fury universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDateOfWorkAppearedIn | 1929 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Sound and the Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
Southern Gothic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
modernist novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
fatalistic
ⓘ
superstitious ⓘ weary ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | commentator on family’s decline ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | minor character ⓘ |
| occupation | servant ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 20th century American South ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Roskus Description of subject: Roskus is a servant in the Compson household in William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury," known for his superstitious nature and weary outlook.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.