Joseph Bede
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Joseph Bede is the central protagonist of Joseph Conrad’s novella "The Shadow Line," a young sea captain whose first command becomes a psychological and moral trial.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Bede canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22890812 — 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: Joseph Bede Context triple: [The Shadow Line, mainCharacter, Joseph Bede]
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A.
Seth Bede
Seth Bede is a gentle, devout Methodist carpenter and the younger brother of the protagonist in George Eliot’s novel "Adam Bede."
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B.
Saint John Berchmans
Saint John Berchmans was a 17th-century Belgian Jesuit scholastic renowned for his piety and dedication to religious life, later canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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C.
Patrick Thaddeus
Patrick Thaddeus was an American astronomer and astrophysicist renowned for his pioneering work in radio and millimeter-wave observations of interstellar molecules and the structure of the Milky Way.
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D.
Brother Theodore
Brother Theodore was a German-American monologist and actor known for his darkly comedic, existential rants and cult appearances on late-night television and in offbeat films.
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E.
Saint Louis Martin
Saint Louis Martin was a 19th-century French layman, watchmaker, and devout Catholic best known as the father of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and as a model of holy Christian family life.
- 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: Joseph Bede Target entity description: Joseph Bede is the central protagonist of Joseph Conrad’s novella "The Shadow Line," a young sea captain whose first command becomes a psychological and moral trial.
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A.
Seth Bede
Seth Bede is a gentle, devout Methodist carpenter and the younger brother of the protagonist in George Eliot’s novel "Adam Bede."
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B.
Saint John Berchmans
Saint John Berchmans was a 17th-century Belgian Jesuit scholastic renowned for his piety and dedication to religious life, later canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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C.
Patrick Thaddeus
Patrick Thaddeus was an American astronomer and astrophysicist renowned for his pioneering work in radio and millimeter-wave observations of interstellar molecules and the structure of the Milky Way.
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D.
Brother Theodore
Brother Theodore was a German-American monologist and actor known for his darkly comedic, existential rants and cult appearances on late-night television and in offbeat films.
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E.
Saint Louis Martin
Saint Louis Martin was a 19th-century French layman, watchmaker, and devout Catholic best known as the father of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and as a model of holy Christian family life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.