Caulfield
E311531
Caulfield is the surname of the fictional family in J.D. Salinger’s novel "The Catcher in the Rye," most notably associated with the protagonist Holden Caulfield.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caulfield canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2936186 — 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: Caulfield Context triple: [Phoebe Caulfield, familyName, Caulfield]
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A.
Brookvale
Brookvale is a residential suburb within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Mortlake
Mortlake is a riverside suburb in Sydney, Australia, known for its location on the Parramatta River and mix of residential and light industrial areas.
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C.
Mortlake
Mortlake is a riverside district in southwest London on the River Thames, known as the traditional finishing point of the annual Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race.
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D.
East Melbourne
East Melbourne is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, known for its historic architecture, leafy streets, and major sporting and parkland precincts.
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E.
Box Hill
Box Hill is a prominent chalk hill and beauty spot in Surrey, England, renowned for its scenic views, walking trails, and rich wildlife.
- 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: Caulfield Target entity description: Caulfield is the surname of the fictional family in J.D. Salinger’s novel "The Catcher in the Rye," most notably associated with the protagonist Holden Caulfield.
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A.
Brookvale
Brookvale is a residential suburb within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Mortlake
Mortlake is a riverside district in southwest London on the River Thames, known as the traditional finishing point of the annual Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race.
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C.
Mortlake
Mortlake is a riverside suburb in Sydney, Australia, known for its location on the Parramatta River and mix of residential and light industrial areas.
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D.
East Melbourne
East Melbourne is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, known for its historic architecture, leafy streets, and major sporting and parkland precincts.
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E.
Box Hill
Box Hill is a prominent chalk hill and beauty spot in Surrey, England, renowned for its scenic views, walking trails, and rich wildlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family surname
ⓘ
literary surname ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | coming-of-age novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInSetting | New York City ⓘ |
| appearsInTimePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacterTrait |
adolescent alienation
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critique of adult society ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | J. D. Salinger ⓘ |
| familyMember |
Allie Caulfield
ⓘ
D. B. Caulfield ⓘ Holden Caulfield ⓘ D. B. Caulfield ⓘ
surface form:
Mr. Caulfield
Mrs. Caulfield ⓘ Phoebe Caulfield ⓘ |
| hasThemeInWork |
identity and belonging
ⓘ
loss of innocence ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Allie Caulfield
ⓘ
D. B. Caulfield ⓘ Holden Caulfield ⓘ Phoebe Caulfield ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 1951 ⓘ |
| usedInWork | The Catcher in the Rye ⓘ |
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: Caulfield Description of subject: Caulfield is the surname of the fictional family in J.D. Salinger’s novel "The Catcher in the Rye," most notably associated with the protagonist Holden Caulfield.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.