Charles Darke
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Charles Darke is a wealthy, eccentric publisher whose psychological unraveling and retreat from public life form a central strand of Ian McEwan’s novel "The Child in Time."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Darke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19469830 — 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: Charles Darke Context triple: [The Child in Time, character, Charles Darke]
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A.
William Darke
William Darke was an American Revolutionary War officer and early frontier military leader after whom Darke County, Ohio, is named.
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B.
John Blackmore
John Blackmore was the father of Victorian novelist Richard Doddridge Blackmore, best known as the author of "Lorna Doone."
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C.
James Blackwood
James Blackwood was a member of the Blackwood family associated with the prominent Scottish publishing house William Blackwood & Sons.
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D.
Paul Blackthorne
Paul Blackthorne is a British actor best known for his role as Detective Quentin Lance on the television series "Arrow."
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E.
Charles Dexter Ward
Charles Dexter Ward is a fictional young antiquarian from Providence whose obsession with his occult ancestry leads to madness and horror in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella.
- 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: Charles Darke Target entity description: Charles Darke is a wealthy, eccentric publisher whose psychological unraveling and retreat from public life form a central strand of Ian McEwan’s novel "The Child in Time."
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A.
William Darke
William Darke was an American Revolutionary War officer and early frontier military leader after whom Darke County, Ohio, is named.
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B.
John Blackmore
John Blackmore was the father of Victorian novelist Richard Doddridge Blackmore, best known as the author of "Lorna Doone."
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C.
James Blackwood
James Blackwood was a member of the Blackwood family associated with the prominent Scottish publishing house William Blackwood & Sons.
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D.
Paul Blackthorne
Paul Blackthorne is a British actor best known for his role as Detective Quentin Lance on the television series "Arrow."
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E.
Charles Dexter Ward
Charles Dexter Ward is a fictional young antiquarian from Providence whose obsession with his occult ancestry leads to madness and horror in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.