Dedalus
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Dedalus is the surname of the fictional Irish family, including Stephen Dedalus, featured prominently in James Joyce’s works such as "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dedalus canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4965644 — 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: Dedalus Context triple: [Simon Dedalus, familyName, Dedalus]
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A.
Dilly Dedalus
Dilly Dedalus is a minor character in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses," one of Stephen Dedalus's impoverished sisters who embodies the family's financial and emotional struggles.
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B.
Simon Dedalus
Simon Dedalus is a proud, embittered, and often irresponsible father in James Joyce’s Ulysses, known for his eloquence, nostalgia, and strained relationship with his son Stephen.
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C.
Stephen Dedalus
Stephen Dedalus is a central fictional character created by James Joyce, portrayed as an intellectually restless young Dubliner whose artistic and philosophical struggles are explored in both "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
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D.
Demologos
Demologos was the world's first steam-powered warship, designed by Robert Fulton for the United States Navy during the War of 1812.
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E.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
- 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: Dedalus Target entity description: Dedalus is the surname of the fictional Irish family, including Stephen Dedalus, featured prominently in James Joyce’s works such as "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
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A.
Dilly Dedalus
Dilly Dedalus is a minor character in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses," one of Stephen Dedalus's impoverished sisters who embodies the family's financial and emotional struggles.
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B.
Simon Dedalus
Simon Dedalus is a proud, embittered, and often irresponsible father in James Joyce’s Ulysses, known for his eloquence, nostalgia, and strained relationship with his son Stephen.
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C.
Stephen Dedalus
Stephen Dedalus is a central fictional character created by James Joyce, portrayed as an intellectually restless young Dubliner whose artistic and philosophical struggles are explored in both "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
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D.
Demologos
Demologos was the world's first steam-powered warship, designed by Robert Fulton for the United States Navy during the War of 1812.
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E.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family name
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surname ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | modernist novel ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
ⓘ
Stephen Hero ⓘ Ulysses ⓘ |
| createdByAuthor | James Joyce ⓘ |
| familyMemberOf |
Boody Dedalus
ⓘ
Dilly Dedalus ⓘ Katey Dedalus ⓘ
linked to:
Dilly Dedalus
Mary Dedalus ⓘ Maurice Dedalus ⓘ Milly Dedalus ⓘ Simon Dedalus ⓘ Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
| fictionalLocationAssociation | Dublin ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Irish literature ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
| hasThematicAssociation |
Catholic upbringing
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Irish nationalism ⓘ artistic identity ⓘ modernism ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Daedalus ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| symbolicallyAssociatedWith |
artistic creation
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escape from constraints ⓘ flight ⓘ |
| usedByCharacter |
Boody Dedalus
ⓘ
Dilly Dedalus ⓘ Katey Dedalus ⓘ
linked to:
Dilly Dedalus
Mary Dedalus ⓘ Maurice Dedalus ⓘ Milly Dedalus ⓘ Simon Dedalus ⓘ Stephen Dedalus ⓘ |
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: Dedalus Description of subject: Dedalus is the surname of the fictional Irish family, including Stephen Dedalus, featured prominently in James Joyce’s works such as "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.