Percy Boyd Staunton
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Percy Boyd Staunton is a wealthy, ambitious, and morally conflicted Canadian businessman whose actions and inner turmoil play a central role in Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business."
All labels observed (1)
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| Percy Boyd Staunton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18488453 — 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: Percy Boyd Staunton Context triple: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Percy Boyd Staunton]
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Effingham Wilson
Effingham Wilson was a prominent 19th-century London publisher known for issuing works of literature, radical politics, and social reform.
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B.
Eaton L. Dickey
Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
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C.
Asa Tift
Asa Tift was a 19th-century Key West salvager and businessman whose former residence later became the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
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D.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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E.
William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his service during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
- 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: Percy Boyd Staunton Target entity description: Percy Boyd Staunton is a wealthy, ambitious, and morally conflicted Canadian businessman whose actions and inner turmoil play a central role in Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business."
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A.
Effingham Wilson
Effingham Wilson was a prominent 19th-century London publisher known for issuing works of literature, radical politics, and social reform.
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B.
Eaton L. Dickey
Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
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C.
Asa Tift
Asa Tift was a 19th-century Key West salvager and businessman whose former residence later became the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
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D.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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E.
William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his service during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.