Charles Wilcox
E501038
Charles Wilcox is a fictional character in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," depicted as the son of wealthy businessman Henry Wilcox.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Wilcox canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5203710 — 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: Charles Wilcox Context triple: [Henry Wilcox, hasChild, Charles Wilcox]
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A.
Bob Wiley
Bob Wiley is a neurotic but endearing patient whose obsessive dependence on his psychiatrist drives the comedic plot of the film "What About Bob?".
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B.
Billy De Wolfe
Billy De Wolfe was an American character actor and comedian known for his fussy, fast-talking persona in mid-20th-century film, stage, and television comedies.
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C.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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D.
Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick is a 1973 crime thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau as a small-time bank robber who unwittingly steals mob money.
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E.
Robert Hobbs
Robert Hobbs is an actor known for his role in the film "Longford" and various other screen and stage performances.
- 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: Charles Wilcox Target entity description: Charles Wilcox is a fictional character in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," depicted as the son of wealthy businessman Henry Wilcox.
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A.
Bob Wiley
Bob Wiley is a neurotic but endearing patient whose obsessive dependence on his psychiatrist drives the comedic plot of the film "What About Bob?".
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B.
Billy De Wolfe
Billy De Wolfe was an American character actor and comedian known for his fussy, fast-talking persona in mid-20th-century film, stage, and television comedies.
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C.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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D.
Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick is a 1973 crime thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau as a small-time bank robber who unwittingly steals mob money.
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E.
Robert Hobbs
Robert Hobbs is an actor known for his role in the film "Longford" and various other screen and stage performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Howards End ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | Wilcox family ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Howards End (house)
ⓘ
London ⓘ |
| creator | E. M. Forster ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilcox ⓘ |
| father | Henry Wilcox ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Howards End ⓘ |
| genre | modernist literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
authoritarian
ⓘ
conventional ⓘ materialistic ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Edwardian literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| mother | Ruth Wilcox ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| sibling |
Evie Wilcox
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Paul Wilcox ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper middle class ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
capitalism
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class conflict ⓘ gender roles ⓘ property and inheritance ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1910 ⓘ |
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: Charles Wilcox Description of subject: Charles Wilcox is a fictional character in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," depicted as the son of wealthy businessman Henry Wilcox.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.