Hugh Boylan
E468438
Hugh Boylan, better known as Blazes Boylan, is a charismatic and flirtatious advertising agent in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," notable for his affair with Molly Bloom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hugh Boylan canonical | 1 |
| Hugh ‘Blazes’ Boylan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4758237 — 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: Hugh Boylan Context triple: [Blazes Boylan, alsoKnownAs, Hugh Boylan]
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A.
Danny O’Donoghue
Danny O’Donoghue is an Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of the band The Script, known for his pop-rock hits and television appearances.
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B.
Francis Keally
Francis Keally was an American architect best known for his work on major public buildings in the early 20th century, particularly in New York City.
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C.
John Killoran
John Killoran is an actor known for his role in the National Theatre’s acclaimed stage production of "Frankenstein."
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D.
Séumas Robinson
Séumas Robinson was an Irish Republican Army leader and veteran of the Easter Rising who played a key role in the Irish War of Independence.
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E.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
- 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: Hugh Boylan Target entity description: Hugh Boylan, better known as Blazes Boylan, is a charismatic and flirtatious advertising agent in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," notable for his affair with Molly Bloom.
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A.
Danny O’Donoghue
Danny O’Donoghue is an Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of the band The Script, known for his pop-rock hits and television appearances.
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B.
Francis Keally
Francis Keally was an American architect best known for his work on major public buildings in the early 20th century, particularly in New York City.
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C.
John Killoran
John Killoran is an actor known for his role in the National Theatre’s acclaimed stage production of "Frankenstein."
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D.
Séumas Robinson
Séumas Robinson was an Irish Republican Army leader and veteran of the Easter Rising who played a key role in the Irish War of Independence.
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E.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ulysses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Leopold Bloom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Molly Bloom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charismatic
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flirtatious ⓘ |
| creator | James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Ulysses (James Joyce) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasAffairWith | Molly Bloom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Blazes Boylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryRole | foil to Leopold Bloom ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Lestrygonians episode of Ulysses
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Penelope episode of Ulysses NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirens episode of Ulysses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst of Leopold Bloom’s jealousy ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| occupation | advertising agent ⓘ |
| residence | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticRelationship | Molly Bloom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 16 June 1904 ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1922 ⓘ |
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: Hugh Boylan Description of subject: Hugh Boylan, better known as Blazes Boylan, is a charismatic and flirtatious advertising agent in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," notable for his affair with Molly Bloom.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hugh ‘Blazes’ Boylan