Sellem
E510474
Sellem is the sly auctioneer character in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who presides over the sale of Tom Rakewell’s possessions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sellem canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317158 — 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: Sellem Context triple: [The Rake's Progress, character, Sellem]
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A.
Selänne
Selänne is the surname of Teemu Selänne, a legendary Finnish ice hockey player and one of the NHL’s most prolific goal scorers.
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B.
Lomme
Lomme is a suburban district and former commune that now forms part of the metropolitan area of Lille in northern France.
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C.
Demme
Demme is the surname of Jonathan Demme, the acclaimed American film director known for works such as "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia."
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D.
Sanem
Sanem is a commune and town in southwestern Luxembourg known for its historic castle and proximity to the industrial city of Esch-sur-Alzette.
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E.
Muraste
Muraste is a village in northern Estonia, located near the capital Tallinn on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
- 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: Sellem Target entity description: Sellem is the sly auctioneer character in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who presides over the sale of Tom Rakewell’s possessions.
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A.
Selänne
Selänne is the surname of Teemu Selänne, a legendary Finnish ice hockey player and one of the NHL’s most prolific goal scorers.
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B.
Lomme
Lomme is a suburban district and former commune that now forms part of the metropolitan area of Lille in northern France.
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C.
Demme
Demme is the surname of Jonathan Demme, the acclaimed American film director known for works such as "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia."
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D.
Sanem
Sanem is a commune and town in southwestern Luxembourg known for its historic castle and proximity to the industrial city of Esch-sur-Alzette.
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E.
Muraste
Muraste is a village in northern Estonia, located near the capital Tallinn on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
auctioneer
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ opera character ⓘ |
| alignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Rake’s Progress
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rake's Progress
|
| appearsInAct | The Rake’s Progress, auction scene ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | opera ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Anne Trulove
ⓘ
Nick Shadow ⓘ Tom Rakewell ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cunning
ⓘ
opportunistic ⓘ sly ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Chester Kallman
ⓘ
Igor Stravinsky ⓘ W. H. Auden ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Rake’s Progress universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rake's Progress
|
| firstAppearance |
opera The Rake’s Progress
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rake's Progress
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | sung role ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodies commercial exploitation
ⓘ
facilitates Tom Rakewell’s downfall ⓘ |
| occupation | auctioneer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | auctioneer of Tom Rakewell’s possessions ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | 18th-century London ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
| workComposer | Igor Stravinsky ⓘ |
| workLibrettist |
Chester Kallman
ⓘ
W. H. Auden ⓘ |
| workPremiereYear | 1951 ⓘ |
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: Sellem Description of subject: Sellem is the sly auctioneer character in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who presides over the sale of Tom Rakewell’s possessions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.