Clayton Tarleton
E513247
Clayton Tarleton is a fictional character in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Misalliance," known as the energetic and idealistic son of the wealthy underwear manufacturer John Tarleton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clayton Tarleton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5346877 — 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: Clayton Tarleton Context triple: [John Tarleton, child, Clayton Tarleton]
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A.
Elkin Mathews
Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
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B.
J. Buford Boone
J. Buford Boone was an American newspaper editor and publisher best known for his courageous civil rights advocacy in Alabama, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1957.
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C.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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D.
William Cameron McCool
William Cameron McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
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E.
John R. Hardin
John R. Hardin was an American figure notable enough in New Jersey history to be interred at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey.
- 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: Clayton Tarleton Target entity description: Clayton Tarleton is a fictional character in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Misalliance," known as the energetic and idealistic son of the wealthy underwear manufacturer John Tarleton.
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A.
Elkin Mathews
Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
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B.
J. Buford Boone
J. Buford Boone was an American newspaper editor and publisher best known for his courageous civil rights advocacy in Alabama, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1957.
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C.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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D.
William Cameron McCool
William Cameron McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
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E.
John R. Hardin
John R. Hardin was an American figure notable enough in New Jersey history to be interred at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Misalliance ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Tarleton underwear business ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
energetic
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idealistic ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | George Bernard Shaw ⓘ |
| familyName | Tarleton ⓘ |
| father | John Tarleton ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Clayton ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
member of upper middle class
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representative of youthful idealism ⓘ |
| occupationOfFather | underwear manufacturer ⓘ |
| partOf | Tarleton family ⓘ |
| relative |
Hypatia Tarleton
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John Tarleton ⓘ |
| settingOfFiction |
Edwardian England
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linked to:
Edwardian era
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| sibling | Hypatia Tarleton ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | play ⓘ |
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: Clayton Tarleton Description of subject: Clayton Tarleton is a fictional character in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Misalliance," known as the energetic and idealistic son of the wealthy underwear manufacturer John Tarleton.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.