Curtis Jadwin
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Curtis Jadwin is the ambitious grain speculator who serves as the central figure in Frank Norris’s novel "The Pit: A Story of Chicago," embodying the risks and obsessions of early 20th-century commodities trading.
All labels observed (1)
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| Curtis Jadwin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14704742 — 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: Curtis Jadwin Context triple: [The Pit: A Story of Chicago, hasProtagonist, Curtis Jadwin]
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A.
Clem Haskins
Clem Haskins is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his standout career at Western Kentucky, his NBA tenure in the late 1960s and 1970s, and his successful run as head coach of the University of Minnesota men's basketball team.
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B.
Milt Woodard
Milt Woodard was a sports executive best known for serving as commissioner of the American Football League during its final years before the AFL–NFL merger.
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C.
Francis Buchholz
Francis Buchholz is a German bass guitarist best known for his long tenure with the hard rock band Scorpions during their most commercially successful years.
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D.
Leland Hayward
Leland Hayward was a prominent American theatrical and film producer and talent agent known for backing major Broadway hits and influential Hollywood projects in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Jerome Belsey
Jerome Belsey is a central character in Zadie Smith’s novel "On Beauty," depicted as one of the children in the Belsey family whose personal struggles and relationships reflect the book’s themes of identity, politics, and cultural conflict.
- 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: Curtis Jadwin Target entity description: Curtis Jadwin is the ambitious grain speculator who serves as the central figure in Frank Norris’s novel "The Pit: A Story of Chicago," embodying the risks and obsessions of early 20th-century commodities trading.
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A.
Clem Haskins
Clem Haskins is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his standout career at Western Kentucky, his NBA tenure in the late 1960s and 1970s, and his successful run as head coach of the University of Minnesota men's basketball team.
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B.
Milt Woodard
Milt Woodard was a sports executive best known for serving as commissioner of the American Football League during its final years before the AFL–NFL merger.
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C.
Francis Buchholz
Francis Buchholz is a German bass guitarist best known for his long tenure with the hard rock band Scorpions during their most commercially successful years.
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D.
Leland Hayward
Leland Hayward was a prominent American theatrical and film producer and talent agent known for backing major Broadway hits and influential Hollywood projects in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Jerome Belsey
Jerome Belsey is a central character in Zadie Smith’s novel "On Beauty," depicted as one of the children in the Belsey family whose personal struggles and relationships reflect the book’s themes of identity, politics, and cultural conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.