Claude Wheeler
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Claude Wheeler is the introspective Nebraska farm boy and disillusioned World War I soldier who serves as the central figure in Willa Cather’s novel "One of Ours."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Claude Wheeler canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423499 — 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: Claude Wheeler Context triple: [One of Ours, mainCharacter, Claude Wheeler]
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A.
Clifford Garvin
Clifford Garvin was an American business executive best known as a former chairman and CEO of Exxon who helped shape U.S. corporate policy through his role in founding the Business Roundtable.
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B.
Frank Wheeler
Frank Wheeler is the disillusioned suburban husband and central protagonist of Richard Yates’s novel "Revolutionary Road," whose failed dreams and marital tensions embody mid-20th-century American malaise.
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C.
Claude Wesley
Claude Wesley was the adoptive father of Cynthia Wesley, one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
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E.
Harold Eugene Clark
Harold Eugene Clark, better known as Gene Clark, was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the influential folk-rock band The Byrds.
- 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: Claude Wheeler Target entity description: Claude Wheeler is the introspective Nebraska farm boy and disillusioned World War I soldier who serves as the central figure in Willa Cather’s novel "One of Ours."
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A.
Clifford Garvin
Clifford Garvin was an American business executive best known as a former chairman and CEO of Exxon who helped shape U.S. corporate policy through his role in founding the Business Roundtable.
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B.
Frank Wheeler
Frank Wheeler is the disillusioned suburban husband and central protagonist of Richard Yates’s novel "Revolutionary Road," whose failed dreams and marital tensions embody mid-20th-century American malaise.
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C.
Claude Wesley
Claude Wesley was the adoptive father of Cynthia Wesley, one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
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E.
Harold Eugene Clark
Harold Eugene Clark, better known as Gene Clark, was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the influential folk-rock band The Byrds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| characterIn | One of Ours ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| creator | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| describedAs |
disillusioned
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idealistic ⓘ introspective ⓘ |
| familyBackground | farm family ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
novel "One of Ours"
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linked to:
One of Ours
|
| fullName | Claude Wheeler ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryRole | central figure ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | World War I ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist of "One of Ours" ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Nebraska ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
conflict between idealism and reality
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disillusionment with war ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ |
| upbringingLocation | rural Nebraska ⓘ |
| workOfFiction | One of Ours ⓘ |
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: Claude Wheeler Description of subject: Claude Wheeler is the introspective Nebraska farm boy and disillusioned World War I soldier who serves as the central figure in Willa Cather’s novel "One of Ours."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.