Lennie Snopes
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Lennie Snopes is a central figure in William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning,” representing the conflicted loyalty and moral awakening of a boy torn between his family and his own emerging sense of justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lennie Snopes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21435352 — 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: Lennie Snopes Context triple: [Barn Burning, mainCharacter, Lennie Snopes]
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A.
Lennie Small
Lennie Small is a large, mentally disabled migrant ranch worker whose childlike innocence and unintentional violence drive the central tragedy of John Steinbeck’s novella "Of Mice and Men."
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B.
Lennie
Lennie is a common diminutive form of the given name Leonard, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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C.
Grampa Joad
Grampa Joad is the cantankerous, hard-drinking patriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
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D.
Tom Joad
Tom Joad is the central, morally driven migrant worker in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," symbolizing social justice and the struggles of the American Dust Bowl era.
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E.
Joad
Joad is the surname of the central Dust Bowl migrant family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
- 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: Lennie Snopes Target entity description: Lennie Snopes is a central figure in William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning,” representing the conflicted loyalty and moral awakening of a boy torn between his family and his own emerging sense of justice.
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A.
Lennie Small
Lennie Small is a large, mentally disabled migrant ranch worker whose childlike innocence and unintentional violence drive the central tragedy of John Steinbeck’s novella "Of Mice and Men."
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B.
Lennie
Lennie is a common diminutive form of the given name Leonard, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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C.
Grampa Joad
Grampa Joad is the cantankerous, hard-drinking patriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
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D.
Tom Joad
Tom Joad is the central, morally driven migrant worker in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," symbolizing social justice and the struggles of the American Dust Bowl era.
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E.
Joad
Joad is the surname of the central Dust Bowl migrant family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.