Blazes
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Blazes is the nickname of Hugh "Blazes" Boylan, a charismatic and flirtatious character in James Joyce's novel *Ulysses*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blazes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4758236 — 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: Blazes Context triple: [Blazes Boylan, hasGivenName, Blazes]
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A.
Blaze
Blaze is the anthropomorphic orange cat mascot of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team.
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B.
Blaze
Blaze is a hostile, floating, fire-based mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that attacks players by shooting fireballs.
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C.
Blaze the Dragon
Blaze the Dragon is the fiery dragon mascot representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s athletic teams.
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D.
Brennen
Brennen is a given name, typically used as a variant spelling of Brennan.
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E.
Flogger
Flogger is the NATO reporting name for the Soviet-era Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 variable-geometry fighter aircraft.
- 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: Blazes Target entity description: Blazes is the nickname of Hugh "Blazes" Boylan, a charismatic and flirtatious character in James Joyce's novel *Ulysses*.
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A.
Blaze
Blaze is the anthropomorphic orange cat mascot of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team.
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B.
Blaze
Blaze is a hostile, floating, fire-based mob in Minecraft’s Nether dimension that attacks players by shooting fireballs.
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C.
Blaze the Dragon
Blaze the Dragon is the fiery dragon mascot representing the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s athletic teams.
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D.
Brennen
Brennen is a given name, typically used as a variant spelling of Brennan.
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E.
Flogger
Flogger is the NATO reporting name for the Soviet-era Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 variable-geometry fighter aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Hugh "Blazes" Boylan ⓘ |
| appearsIn | novel Ulysses ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisode |
Circe episode of Ulysses
ⓘ
Nausicaa episode of Ulysses ⓘ Oxen of the Sun episode of Ulysses ⓘ Penelope episode of Ulysses ⓘ
linked to:
Ulysses episode "Penelope"
Sirens episode of Ulysses ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Leopold Bloom
ⓘ
Molly Bloom ⓘ |
| characterIn | Ulysses ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| creator | James Joyce ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | Dublin ⓘ |
| fullName | Hugh Boylan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | modernist novel ⓘ |
| hasThemeConnection |
jealousy
ⓘ
marital infidelity ⓘ masculinity ⓘ sexual desire ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
self-confident
ⓘ
sexually assertive ⓘ socially outgoing ⓘ |
| influencesPlotOf | Leopold Bloom's emotional state ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
modernism
ⓘ
linked to:
Modernism
|
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| name | Blazes ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
Molly Bloom's suitor
ⓘ
rival to Leopold Bloom ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| nickname | Blazes ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
charismatic
ⓘ
flirtatious ⓘ womanizer ⓘ |
| notableEvent | plans afternoon liaison with Molly Bloom on 16 June 1904 ⓘ |
| occupation |
commercial traveller
ⓘ
salesman ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
Ulysses universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Ulysses (serialization)
|
| relationshipToLeopoldBloom | wife's lover ⓘ |
| relationshipToMollyBloom | lover ⓘ |
| settingDate | 16 June 1904 ⓘ |
| symbolicRole |
contrast to Leopold Bloom
ⓘ
embodiment of sexual vitality ⓘ |
| transportUsed | jaunting car ⓘ |
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: Blazes Description of subject: Blazes is the nickname of Hugh "Blazes" Boylan, a charismatic and flirtatious character in James Joyce's novel *Ulysses*.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.