Tony Webster
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Tony Webster is the introspective, middle-aged narrator of Julian Barnes's novel "The Sense of an Ending," whose recollections and misremembered past drive the story’s exploration of memory and regret.
All labels observed (1)
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| Tony Webster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17247433 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Webster Context triple: [The Sense of an Ending, mainCharacter, Tony Webster]
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A.
Anthony Wills
Anthony Wills is a whisky industry figure best known as the founder of Kilchoman, one of Islay’s newer farm-based Scotch whisky distilleries.
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B.
Tony Weller
Tony Weller is a humorous, plain-spoken London coachman and the father of Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's novel "The Pickwick Papers."
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C.
Frank Wead
Frank Wead was an American naval aviator-turned-screenwriter known for his aviation-themed stories and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
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D.
Tony Cottrell
Tony Cottrell, better known by his stage name Hi-Tek, is an American hip hop producer and DJ recognized for his soulful, sample-based beats and collaborations with artists like Talib Kweli and Mos Def.
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E.
Hal Barwood
Hal Barwood is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and video game designer best known for his work on films like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and for creating story-driven adventure games at LucasArts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Webster Target entity description: Tony Webster is the introspective, middle-aged narrator of Julian Barnes's novel "The Sense of an Ending," whose recollections and misremembered past drive the story’s exploration of memory and regret.
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A.
Anthony Wills
Anthony Wills is a whisky industry figure best known as the founder of Kilchoman, one of Islay’s newer farm-based Scotch whisky distilleries.
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B.
Tony Weller
Tony Weller is a humorous, plain-spoken London coachman and the father of Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's novel "The Pickwick Papers."
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C.
Frank Wead
Frank Wead was an American naval aviator-turned-screenwriter known for his aviation-themed stories and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
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D.
Tony Cottrell
Tony Cottrell, better known by his stage name Hi-Tek, is an American hip hop producer and DJ recognized for his soulful, sample-based beats and collaborations with artists like Talib Kweli and Mos Def.
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E.
Hal Barwood
Hal Barwood is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and video game designer best known for his work on films like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and for creating story-driven adventure games at LucasArts.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.