Tom Corey
E207276
Tom Corey is a refined, idealistic young Bostonian from an old-money family in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," whose romantic and social entanglements highlight the tensions between class, morality, and ambition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Corey canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842829 — 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: Tom Corey Context triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Tom Corey]
-
A.
Carl Corey
Carl Corey is an American photographer known for his documentary-style images that continue the social and environmental storytelling tradition associated with the Farm Security Administration photographers.
-
B.
Austin S. Miller
Austin S. Miller is a U.S. Army general best known for commanding NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan during the final years of the war.
-
C.
Richard Jolley
Richard Jolley is an American glass artist renowned for his large-scale figurative sculptures and significant contributions to contemporary studio glass.
-
D.
Timothy Stephen Wakefield
Timothy Stephen Wakefield was an American Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his long career with the Boston Red Sox and his signature knuckleball.
-
E.
Adam Chapman
Adam Chapman is a television producer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary series "Our Planet."
- 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: Tom Corey Target entity description: Tom Corey is a refined, idealistic young Bostonian from an old-money family in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," whose romantic and social entanglements highlight the tensions between class, morality, and ambition.
-
A.
Carl Corey
Carl Corey is an American photographer known for his documentary-style images that continue the social and environmental storytelling tradition associated with the Farm Security Administration photographers.
-
B.
Austin S. Miller
Austin S. Miller is a U.S. Army general best known for commanding NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan during the final years of the war.
-
C.
Richard Jolley
Richard Jolley is an American glass artist renowned for his large-scale figurative sculptures and significant contributions to contemporary studio glass.
-
D.
Timothy Stephen Wakefield
Timothy Stephen Wakefield was an American Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his long career with the Boston Red Sox and his signature knuckleball.
-
E.
Adam Chapman
Adam Chapman is a television producer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary series "Our Planet."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ male character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rise of Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| belongsToFamily | Corey family ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | The Rise of Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| hasEconomicBackground | inherited wealth ⓘ |
| hasEducationBackground | well educated ⓘ |
| hasFamilyBackground | old-money Boston family ⓘ |
| hasHomeLocation |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| hasLiteraryMovementContext |
Realism
ⓘ
surface form:
American realism
|
| hasMoralCharacteristic |
conscientious
ⓘ
honorable ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction |
to examine ethical choices in business and love
ⓘ
to explore conflicts between old money and new money ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
idealistic
ⓘ
refined ⓘ |
| hasRoleInWork |
major character in The Rise of Silas Lapham
ⓘ
romantic interest ⓘ |
| hasSocialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus | Brahmin Bostonian ⓘ |
| hasThemeAssociation |
ambition
ⓘ
class tension ⓘ morality ⓘ social mobility ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| isContrastedWith | Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tom Corey Description of subject: Tom Corey is a refined, idealistic young Bostonian from an old-money family in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," whose romantic and social entanglements highlight the tensions between class, morality, and ambition.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.