Colonel Thomas Newcome
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Colonel Thomas Newcome is the virtuous, honorable, and self-sacrificing protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "The Newcomes," embodying Victorian ideals of gentlemanly conduct and moral integrity.
All labels observed (1)
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| Colonel Thomas Newcome canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21571983 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Thomas Newcome Context triple: [The Newcomes, mainCharacter, Colonel Thomas Newcome]
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A.
Samuel Toombs
Samuel Toombs was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Barnsley constituency in the early 20th century.
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B.
Charles Newington
Charles Newington is a British artist best known for creating the large hillside chalk figure known as the Folkestone White Horse in Kent, England.
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C.
Mr. Coldfield
Mr. Coldfield is a morally rigid, deeply religious Jefferson merchant in William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!" whose stern principles and withdrawal from society reflect the novel’s themes of guilt, complicity, and Southern decay.
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D.
Mr. Millbank
Mr. Millbank is a fictional wealthy industrialist and the father of Oswald Millbank in Benjamin Disraeli’s novel "Coningsby."
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E.
Thomas Troubridge
Thomas Troubridge was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his close association with Admiral Nelson and his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- 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: Colonel Thomas Newcome Target entity description: Colonel Thomas Newcome is the virtuous, honorable, and self-sacrificing protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "The Newcomes," embodying Victorian ideals of gentlemanly conduct and moral integrity.
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A.
Samuel Toombs
Samuel Toombs was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Barnsley constituency in the early 20th century.
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B.
Charles Newington
Charles Newington is a British artist best known for creating the large hillside chalk figure known as the Folkestone White Horse in Kent, England.
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C.
Mr. Coldfield
Mr. Coldfield is a morally rigid, deeply religious Jefferson merchant in William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!" whose stern principles and withdrawal from society reflect the novel’s themes of guilt, complicity, and Southern decay.
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D.
Mr. Millbank
Mr. Millbank is a fictional wealthy industrialist and the father of Oswald Millbank in Benjamin Disraeli’s novel "Coningsby."
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E.
Thomas Troubridge
Thomas Troubridge was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his close association with Admiral Nelson and his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.