Leo Proudhammer
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Leo Proudhammer is the introspective African American actor and narrator at the center of James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," through whom themes of race, sexuality, and artistic identity are explored.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leo Proudhammer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3288394 — 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: Leo Proudhammer Context triple: [Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, mainCharacter, Leo Proudhammer]
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A.
Harvey Pitts
Harvey Pitts is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Pitts.
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B.
Joe Grant
Joe Grant was an influential American Disney story artist and writer known for shaping the narratives and characters of many classic animated films.
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C.
Thomas Parris
Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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E.
Charles Roane
Charles Roane is a music producer known for his work on the album "Back to Basics."
- 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: Leo Proudhammer Target entity description: Leo Proudhammer is the introspective African American actor and narrator at the center of James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," through whom themes of race, sexuality, and artistic identity are explored.
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A.
Harvey Pitts
Harvey Pitts is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Pitts.
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B.
Joe Grant
Joe Grant was an influential American Disney story artist and writer known for shaping the narratives and characters of many classic animated films.
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C.
Thomas Parris
Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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E.
Charles Roane
Charles Roane is a music producer known for his work on the album "Back to Basics."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American actor
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ narrator ⓘ novel protagonist ⓘ |
| 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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| associatedWithAuthorThemes |
African American experience
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art and politics ⓘ queer identity ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
introspective
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self-analytical ⓘ sensitive ⓘ |
| createdBy | James Baldwin ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
artistic identity
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fame ⓘ family relationships ⓘ identity ⓘ politics ⓘ race ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| 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
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | novel ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| protagonistOf |
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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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: Leo Proudhammer Description of subject: Leo Proudhammer is the introspective African American actor and narrator at the center of James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," through whom themes of race, sexuality, and artistic identity are explored.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.