Homer Macauley
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Homer Macauley is the teenage telegraph messenger protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," whose experiences reflect small-town American life during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Homer Macauley canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4307960 — 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: Homer Macauley Context triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Homer Macauley]
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A.
Horace Cleveland
Horace Cleveland was a prominent 19th-century American landscape architect known for designing parks, cemeteries, and urban green spaces across the United States.
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B.
Horace Walker
Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
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C.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
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D.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
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E.
Edgar Bethune Ward
Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
- 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: Homer Macauley Target entity description: Homer Macauley is the teenage telegraph messenger protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," whose experiences reflect small-town American life during World War II.
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A.
Horace Cleveland
Horace Cleveland was a prominent 19th-century American landscape architect known for designing parks, cemeteries, and urban green spaces across the United States.
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B.
Horace Walker
Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
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C.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
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D.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
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E.
Edgar Bethune Ward
Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
The Human Comedy (1943 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy (stage adaptations) ⓘ
linked to:
The Human Comedy
|
| age | teenager ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Human Comedy ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Ithaca, California ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
idealistic ⓘ responsible ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | William Saroyan ⓘ |
| employer | telegraph office in Ithaca ⓘ |
| familyName | Macauley ⓘ |
| genre | war novel character ⓘ |
| givenName | Homer ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Bess Macauley
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Marcus Macauley ⓘ Mrs. Macauley ⓘ Ulysses Macauley ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryWorkPublicationYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor |
delivering wartime telegrams
ⓘ
depicting American home front during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | telegraph messenger ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Human Comedy ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| settingType | small-town America ⓘ |
| theme |
coming of age
ⓘ
family ⓘ small-town life ⓘ war and loss ⓘ |
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: Homer Macauley Description of subject: Homer Macauley is the teenage telegraph messenger protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," whose experiences reflect small-town American life during World War II.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.