Tom Tulliver
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Tom Tulliver is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," portrayed as the practical, duty-bound brother whose rigid sense of morality and responsibility contrasts with his sister Maggie’s passionate nature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Tulliver canonical | 18 |
| Tulliver | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2894194 — 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 Tulliver Context triple: [The Mill on the Floss, mainCharacter, Tom Tulliver]
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A.
Barbara Tulliver
Barbara Tulliver is a film editor best known for her long-standing collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson on several of his acclaimed movies.
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B.
Thomas Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
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C.
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Ambrosine Phillpotts was a British character actress known for her numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, theatre, and television.
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D.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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E.
Uncle Tom Travers
Uncle Tom Travers is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, known as Bertie Wooster’s wealthy, short-tempered uncle with a passion for collecting silver.
- 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 Tulliver Target entity description: Tom Tulliver is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," portrayed as the practical, duty-bound brother whose rigid sense of morality and responsibility contrasts with his sister Maggie’s passionate nature.
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A.
Barbara Tulliver
Barbara Tulliver is a film editor best known for her long-standing collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson on several of his acclaimed movies.
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B.
Thomas Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
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C.
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Ambrosine Phillpotts was a British character actress known for her numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, theatre, and television.
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D.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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E.
Uncle Tom Travers
Uncle Tom Travers is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, known as Bertie Wooster’s wealthy, short-tempered uncle with a passion for collecting silver.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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 Tulliver Description of subject: Tom Tulliver is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," portrayed as the practical, duty-bound brother whose rigid sense of morality and responsibility contrasts with his sister Maggie’s passionate nature.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tulliver
subject surface form:
River Floss
subject surface form:
Maggie Tulliver
subject surface form:
Maggie Tulliver
subject surface form:
Maggie Tulliver
subject surface form:
Maggie Tulliver