Silas Stingy
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Silas Stingy is a satirical song by The Who that tells the story of a miserly man whose obsessive hoarding ultimately leaves him isolated and unhappy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silas Stingy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18646504 — 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: Silas Stingy Context triple: [The Who Sell Out, hasPart, Silas Stingy]
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A.
Jesse B. Semple
Jesse B. Semple is a fictional African American everyman created by Langston Hughes, known for his humorous, plainspoken reflections on Black life and social issues in mid-20th-century America.
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B.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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C.
Flem Snopes
Flem Snopes is a cunning, opportunistic antihero in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his ruthless social climbing and moral ambiguity.
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D.
Hopsy McDodd
Hopsy McDodd is one of the many children of Mayor Ned McDodd in Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!" and its film adaptations.
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E.
Eppa Hunton
Eppa Hunton was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia.
- 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: Silas Stingy Target entity description: Silas Stingy is a satirical song by The Who that tells the story of a miserly man whose obsessive hoarding ultimately leaves him isolated and unhappy.
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A.
Jesse B. Semple
Jesse B. Semple is a fictional African American everyman created by Langston Hughes, known for his humorous, plainspoken reflections on Black life and social issues in mid-20th-century America.
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B.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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C.
Flem Snopes
Flem Snopes is a cunning, opportunistic antihero in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his ruthless social climbing and moral ambiguity.
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D.
Hopsy McDodd
Hopsy McDodd is one of the many children of Mayor Ned McDodd in Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!" and its film adaptations.
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E.
Eppa Hunton
Eppa Hunton was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.