Jack Shaftoe
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Jack Shaftoe is a roguish 17th-century adventurer and antihero in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, known for his daring exploits, wit, and morally ambiguous escapades across Europe and beyond.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Shaftoe canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19755311 — 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: Jack Shaftoe Context triple: [The Baroque Cycle, featuresCharacter, Jack Shaftoe]
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A.
Doug Shaftoe
Doug Shaftoe is a fictional former U.S. Marine and skilled underwater engineer and diver featured prominently in Neal Stephenson’s novel "Cryptonomicon."
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B.
Sindbad Vail
Sindbad Vail is the son of art collector Peggy Guggenheim and her first husband, writer Laurence Vail.
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C.
Henry DeTamble
Henry DeTamble is a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to involuntarily travel through time, profoundly affecting his relationships and life in The Time Traveler's Wife.
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D.
Mr. Boncassen
Mr. Boncassen is a scholarly American gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels, known as the learned and socially unpretentious father of Isabel Boncassen.
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E.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
- 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: Jack Shaftoe Target entity description: Jack Shaftoe is a roguish 17th-century adventurer and antihero in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, known for his daring exploits, wit, and morally ambiguous escapades across Europe and beyond.
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A.
Doug Shaftoe
Doug Shaftoe is a fictional former U.S. Marine and skilled underwater engineer and diver featured prominently in Neal Stephenson’s novel "Cryptonomicon."
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B.
Sindbad Vail
Sindbad Vail is the son of art collector Peggy Guggenheim and her first husband, writer Laurence Vail.
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C.
Henry DeTamble
Henry DeTamble is a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to involuntarily travel through time, profoundly affecting his relationships and life in The Time Traveler's Wife.
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D.
Mr. Boncassen
Mr. Boncassen is a scholarly American gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels, known as the learned and socially unpretentious father of Isabel Boncassen.
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E.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.