Theo Decker

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Theo Decker is the troubled young protagonist of Donna Tartt’s novel "The Goldfinch," whose life is shaped by a tragic museum bombing and his obsessive attachment to a stolen painting.

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Label	Occurrences
Theo Decker canonical	6

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16553188 — 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: Theo Decker
Context triple: [Het puttertje, mainCharacter, Theo Decker]

A. Cliff Bradshaw
Cliff Bradshaw is the American novelist and central protagonist in the musical "Cabaret," whose relationship with nightclub singer Sally Bowles unfolds against the rise of Nazism in 1930s Berlin.
B. Tate Langdon
Tate Langdon is a troubled, ghostly teenager and central antagonist in the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story.
C. Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
D. Jonah Byrde
Jonah Byrde is a central character in the crime drama series "Ozark," the teenage son of Marty and Wendy Byrde who becomes increasingly entangled in his family's money-laundering and criminal activities.
E. Neil Francis Hawkins
Neil Francis Hawkins was a leading British fascist politician who served as a prominent organizer and deputy leader within Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
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: Theo Decker
Target entity description: Theo Decker is the troubled young protagonist of Donna Tartt’s novel "The Goldfinch," whose life is shaped by a tragic museum bombing and his obsessive attachment to a stolen painting.

A. Cliff Bradshaw
Cliff Bradshaw is the American novelist and central protagonist in the musical "Cabaret," whose relationship with nightclub singer Sally Bowles unfolds against the rise of Nazism in 1930s Berlin.
B. Tate Langdon
Tate Langdon is a troubled, ghostly teenager and central antagonist in the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story.
C. Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
D. Jonah Byrde
Jonah Byrde is a central character in the crime drama series "Ozark," the teenage son of Marty and Wendy Byrde who becomes increasingly entangled in his family's money-laundering and criminal activities.
E. Neil Francis Hawkins
Neil Francis Hawkins was a leading British fascist politician who served as a prominent organizer and deputy leader within Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
F. None of above. chosen