Ulysses Macauley
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Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ulysses Macauley canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4307961 — 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: Ulysses Macauley Context triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Ulysses Macauley]
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A.
Walter Plunkett
Walter Plunkett was a prominent American costume designer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Gone with the Wind."
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B.
Vincent MacKenna
Vincent MacKenna is the gruff, hard-drinking yet unexpectedly kind-hearted elderly neighbor portrayed by Bill Murray in the comedy-drama film "St. Vincent."
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C.
Desmond MacCarthy
Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
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D.
Ambrose O’Brien
Ambrose O’Brien was a Canadian sports executive and entrepreneur best known for helping to establish professional ice hockey leagues that were precursors to the modern NHL.
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E.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
- 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: Ulysses Macauley Target entity description: Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
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A.
Walter Plunkett
Walter Plunkett was a prominent American costume designer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Gone with the Wind."
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B.
Vincent MacKenna
Vincent MacKenna is the gruff, hard-drinking yet unexpectedly kind-hearted elderly neighbor portrayed by Bill Murray in the comedy-drama film "St. Vincent."
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C.
Desmond MacCarthy
Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
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D.
Ambrose O’Brien
Ambrose O’Brien was a Canadian sports executive and entrepreneur best known for helping to establish professional ice hockey leagues that were precursors to the modern NHL.
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E.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child character in literature
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| ageInNarrative | young child ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Human Comedy ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
coming of age
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family ⓘ innocence amid hardship ⓘ small-town American life ⓘ war and its impact on home front ⓘ |
| characterType | young boy ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | William Saroyan ⓘ |
| familyName | Macauley ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Human Comedy universe ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1943 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Ulysses ⓘ |
| hasFictionalMother | Mrs. Macauley ⓘ |
| hasFictionalSibling | Homer Macauley ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovementOfAuthor | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
symbol of hope
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symbol of innocence ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalFamily | Macauley family ⓘ |
| relatedWork | film adaptation of The Human Comedy ⓘ |
| setting | small-town California ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | World War II era ⓘ |
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: Ulysses Macauley Description of subject: Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.