Florence Proudhammer
E343591
Florence Proudhammer is a character in James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," serving as part of the complex personal and social world surrounding the protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Florence Proudhammer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3288423 — 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: Florence Proudhammer Context triple: [Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, hasCharacter, Florence Proudhammer]
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A.
Olive Chancellor
Olive Chancellor is a passionate, reform-minded Boston feminist and social reformer who serves as the central figure in Henry James’s novel *The Bostonians*.
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B.
Ruth Baldwin
Ruth Baldwin was the wife of American civil liberties leader Roger Nash Baldwin and a figure associated with early 20th-century social reform circles.
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C.
Ann Deever
Ann Deever is a central character in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons," serving as the former fiancée of Larry Keller and current love interest of his brother Chris, whose presence helps expose the Keller family's buried guilt and moral compromises.
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D.
Lucia Chase
Lucia Chase was an influential American dancer, actress, and arts patron best known for co-founding and long directing the American Ballet Theatre, helping to establish it as a leading classical ballet company.
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E.
Lynde Bradley
Lynde Bradley was an American industrialist and co-founder of the company that became Rockwell Automation, known for pioneering work in industrial controls and automation.
- 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: Florence Proudhammer Target entity description: Florence Proudhammer is a character in James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," serving as part of the complex personal and social world surrounding the protagonist.
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A.
Olive Chancellor
Olive Chancellor is a passionate, reform-minded Boston feminist and social reformer who serves as the central figure in Henry James’s novel *The Bostonians*.
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B.
Ruth Baldwin
Ruth Baldwin was the wife of American civil liberties leader Roger Nash Baldwin and a figure associated with early 20th-century social reform circles.
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C.
Ann Deever
Ann Deever is a central character in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons," serving as the former fiancée of Larry Keller and current love interest of his brother Chris, whose presence helps expose the Keller family's buried guilt and moral compromises.
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D.
Lucia Chase
Lucia Chase was an influential American dancer, actress, and arts patron best known for co-founding and long directing the American Ballet Theatre, helping to establish it as a leading classical ballet company.
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E.
Lynde Bradley
Lynde Bradley was an American industrialist and co-founder of the company that became Rockwell Automation, known for pioneering work in industrial controls and automation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
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surface form:
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | James Baldwin ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
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surface form:
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
|
| genre |
African-American literature
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Proudhammer ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Florence ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| partOf |
personal world of the protagonist in Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
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social world of the protagonist in Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone ⓘ |
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: Florence Proudhammer Description of subject: Florence Proudhammer is a character in James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," serving as part of the complex personal and social world surrounding the protagonist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.