Mr. Lewisham
E437431
Mr. Lewisham is the ambitious young schoolteacher protagonist of H. G. Wells's novel "Love and Mr. Lewisham," whose ideals and aspirations are tested by love and social constraints.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Lewisham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4389669 — 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: Mr. Lewisham Context triple: [Love and Mr. Lewisham, mainCharacter, Mr. Lewisham]
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A.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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B.
Mr. Grimsdale
Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
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C.
Bartholomew Green
Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
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D.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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E.
Mr. Gower
Mr. Gower is the troubled but ultimately kind-hearted druggist in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," whose life is profoundly affected by George Bailey's intervention.
- 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: Mr. Lewisham Target entity description: Mr. Lewisham is the ambitious young schoolteacher protagonist of H. G. Wells's novel "Love and Mr. Lewisham," whose ideals and aspirations are tested by love and social constraints.
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A.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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B.
Mr. Grimsdale
Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
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C.
Bartholomew Green
Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
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D.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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E.
Mr. Gower
Mr. Gower is the troubled but ultimately kind-hearted druggist in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," whose life is profoundly affected by George Bailey's intervention.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ schoolteacher ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Love and Mr. Lewisham ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorThemes | H. G. Wells’s social criticism ⓘ |
| conflict | balancing career and marriage ⓘ |
| createdBy |
H. G. Wells
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linked to:
Herbert George Wells
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| creator |
H. G. Wells
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linked to:
Herbert George Wells
|
| educationStatus | aspiring student ⓘ |
| firstPublicationWork | Love and Mr. Lewisham ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYearOfWork | 1900 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext |
realist novel
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social novel ⓘ |
| goal |
academic success
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social advancement ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Ethel Henderson ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
ambitious
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idealistic ⓘ romantic ⓘ socially constrained ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | early 20th-century British literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | early example of Wells’s non-science-fiction fiction ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Ethel Henderson ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| moralArc | compromise of ideals ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central viewpoint character ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | schoolteacher ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Love and Mr. Lewisham ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| testedBy |
love
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social constraints ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
class constraints
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conflict between love and ambition ⓘ social mobility in Edwardian England ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mr. Lewisham Description of subject: Mr. Lewisham is the ambitious young schoolteacher protagonist of H. G. Wells's novel "Love and Mr. Lewisham," whose ideals and aspirations are tested by love and social constraints.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.