Hector
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Hector is one of the morbidly fated children in Edward Gorey’s darkly comic alphabet book "The Gashlycrumb Tinies."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hector canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20010949 — 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: Hector Context triple: [The Gashlycrumb Tinies, hasLetterCharacter, Hector]
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Hector
Hector is a central character in Alan Bennett’s play and film "The History Boys," portrayed as an eccentric, inspiring, and morally complex English teacher.
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B.
Hector
Hector was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that fought in the 1782 Battle of the Saintes during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Hector
Hector is a family name most notably borne by German entrepreneur and SAP co-founder Hans-Werner Hector.
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D.
Hector
Hector is the noble Trojan prince and greatest warrior of Troy in Greek mythology, renowned for his bravery and tragic death in Homer's Iliad.
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E.
Hector the Hero
Hector the Hero is a famous Scottish slow air and lament composed for the fiddle by James Scott Skinner in memory of Major-General Hector MacDonald.
- 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: Hector Target entity description: Hector is one of the morbidly fated children in Edward Gorey’s darkly comic alphabet book "The Gashlycrumb Tinies."
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A.
Hector
Hector is the noble Trojan prince and greatest warrior of Troy in Greek mythology, renowned for his bravery and tragic death in Homer's Iliad.
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B.
Hector
Hector is a central character in Alan Bennett’s play and film "The History Boys," portrayed as an eccentric, inspiring, and morally complex English teacher.
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C.
Hector
Hector was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that fought in the 1782 Battle of the Saintes during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Hector
Hector is a family name most notably borne by German entrepreneur and SAP co-founder Hans-Werner Hector.
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E.
Hector the Hero
Hector the Hero is a famous Scottish slow air and lament composed for the fiddle by James Scott Skinner in memory of Major-General Hector MacDonald.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.