Cash Bundren
E375593
Cash Bundren is the stoic, carpentry-skilled eldest son in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," known for his methodical nature and quiet resilience amid his family’s turmoil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cash Bundren canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3632752 — 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: Cash Bundren Context triple: [As I Lay Dying, mainCharacter, Cash Bundren]
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A.
John Hardin
John Hardin was an American frontiersman and soldier of the late 18th century, known for his role in early Kentucky and Ohio Valley conflicts and for whom Hardin County, Kentucky, is named.
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B.
Bunk Moreland
Bunk Moreland is a seasoned, sharp-witted homicide detective in the Baltimore Police Department on the television series "The Wire," known for his loyalty, pragmatism, and complex moral compass.
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C.
Edwin Epps
Edwin Epps is the brutal, sadistic plantation owner who enslaves Solomon Northup in the film and memoir "12 Years a Slave."
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D.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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E.
the Misfit
The Misfit is a cold, philosophical escaped convict whose violent encounter with a family on a Southern road trip drives the moral and theological core of Flannery O’Connor’s short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
- 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: Cash Bundren Target entity description: Cash Bundren is the stoic, carpentry-skilled eldest son in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," known for his methodical nature and quiet resilience amid his family’s turmoil.
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A.
John Hardin
John Hardin was an American frontiersman and soldier of the late 18th century, known for his role in early Kentucky and Ohio Valley conflicts and for whom Hardin County, Kentucky, is named.
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B.
Bunk Moreland
Bunk Moreland is a seasoned, sharp-witted homicide detective in the Baltimore Police Department on the television series "The Wire," known for his loyalty, pragmatism, and complex moral compass.
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C.
Edwin Epps
Edwin Epps is the brutal, sadistic plantation owner who enslaves Solomon Northup in the film and memoir "12 Years a Slave."
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D.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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E.
the Misfit
The Misfit is a cold, philosophical escaped convict whose violent encounter with a family on a Southern road trip drives the moral and theological core of Flannery O’Connor’s short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | As I Lay Dying ⓘ |
| appearsInForm | stream-of-consciousness narration ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
duty and responsibility
ⓘ
family obligation ⓘ suffering and endurance ⓘ |
| buildsFor | Addie Bundren ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
methodical
ⓘ
quiet ⓘ resilient ⓘ stoic ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| createdIn | 1930 ⓘ |
| endures | physical pain during the journey ⓘ |
| familyName | Bundren ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1930 ⓘ |
| givenName | Cash ⓘ |
| hasFather | Anse Bundren ⓘ |
| hasInternalLogic | lists reasons for coffin design ⓘ |
| hasMother | Addie Bundren ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Darl Bundren
ⓘ
Dewey Dell Bundren ⓘ Jewel Bundren ⓘ Vardaman Bundren ⓘ |
| injuryCause | fall from a church roof ⓘ |
| isMemberOf | Bundren family ⓘ |
| journeyPurpose | to bury Addie Bundren ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernism
ⓘ
surface form:
modernism
|
| narrativeFunction | embodies practical, concrete thinking ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator in multiple chapters ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | builds Addie Bundren's coffin ⓘ |
| occupation | carpenter ⓘ |
| personalityContrastWith |
Anse Bundren
ⓘ
Darl Bundren ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | eldest son ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork | Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith ⓘ |
| regionInFiction | rural Mississippi ⓘ |
| represents | order amid chaos in the Bundren family ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | constructs and transports his mother's coffin ⓘ |
| setting | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| skill | carpentry ⓘ |
| suffersFrom | severe leg injury ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | early 20th century ⓘ |
| travelsTo | Jefferson, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cash Bundren Description of subject: Cash Bundren is the stoic, carpentry-skilled eldest son in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," known for his methodical nature and quiet resilience amid his family’s turmoil.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.