McCaslin plantation
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McCaslin plantation is the fictional Southern estate in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County that serves as a central locus for exploring themes of race, inheritance, and history in his works.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McCaslin plantation canonical | 3 |
| Pollitt family plantation | 1 |
| Sartoris plantation | 1 |
| Shelby plantation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5532229 — 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: McCaslin plantation Context triple: [Go Down, Moses, hasSettingElement, McCaslin plantation]
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A.
Landsford Plantation
Landsford Plantation was a historic Southern plantation estate in South Carolina associated with Revolutionary War officer and statesman William R. Davie.
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B.
Priestley Plantation
Priestley Plantation was a Southern plantation estate that served as the birthplace of influential American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
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C.
Barrington Plantation
Barrington Plantation is a living history farm and historic site in Texas that interprets mid-19th-century plantation life and the home of Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas.
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D.
Twelve Oaks plantation
Twelve Oaks plantation is the grand antebellum estate featured in Margaret Mitchell’s novel "Gone with the Wind," known as the home of Ashley Wilkes.
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E.
Rippavilla Plantation
Rippavilla Plantation is a historic antebellum estate and former cotton plantation in Spring Hill, Tennessee, noted for its Civil War history and preserved mansion.
- 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: McCaslin plantation Target entity description: McCaslin plantation is the fictional Southern estate in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County that serves as a central locus for exploring themes of race, inheritance, and history in his works.
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A.
Landsford Plantation
Landsford Plantation was a historic Southern plantation estate in South Carolina associated with Revolutionary War officer and statesman William R. Davie.
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B.
Priestley Plantation
Priestley Plantation was a Southern plantation estate that served as the birthplace of influential American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
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C.
Barrington Plantation
Barrington Plantation is a living history farm and historic site in Texas that interprets mid-19th-century plantation life and the home of Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas.
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D.
Twelve Oaks plantation
Twelve Oaks plantation is the grand antebellum estate featured in Margaret Mitchell’s novel "Gone with the Wind," known as the home of Ashley Wilkes.
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E.
Rippavilla Plantation
Rippavilla Plantation is a historic antebellum estate and former cotton plantation in Spring Hill, Tennessee, noted for its Civil War history and preserved mansion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional plantation ⓘ literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Delta Autumn
ⓘ
Go Down, Moses ⓘ Go Down, Moses (title story) ⓘ
linked to:
Go Down, Moses
Pantaloon in Black ⓘ The Bear ⓘ The Fire and the Hearth ⓘ The Old People ⓘ Was ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter |
Buck McCaslin
ⓘ
Buddy McCaslin ⓘ
linked to:
Buck McCaslin
Carothers McCaslin ⓘ
linked to:
Isaac McCaslin
Ike McCaslin ⓘ
linked to:
Isaac McCaslin
Lucas Beauchamp ⓘ Roth Edmonds ⓘ Tomey’s Turl ⓘ |
| associatedFamily |
Edmonds family
ⓘ
McCaslin family ⓘ |
| countryOfAuthor |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic setting
ⓘ
modernist American fiction setting ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalBackstory |
antebellum slave plantation
ⓘ
post–Civil War transformation ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Yoknapatawpha County
ⓘ
fictional Mississippi county ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
central locus for exploring race and inheritance
ⓘ
site of multigenerational family saga ⓘ symbol of the Southern plantation system ⓘ |
| partOf |
Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fiction cycle
ⓘ
linked to:
Yoknapatawpha saga
Yoknapatawpha saga ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
burden of the Southern past
ⓘ
intertwined black and white lineages ⓘ moral cost of slavery ⓘ |
| theme |
Southern history
ⓘ
family history ⓘ guilt ⓘ inheritance ⓘ land ownership ⓘ memory ⓘ miscegenation ⓘ race ⓘ racial injustice ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: McCaslin plantation Description of subject: McCaslin plantation is the fictional Southern estate in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County that serves as a central locus for exploring themes of race, inheritance, and history in his works.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: McCaslin plantation
linked to: McCaslin plantation
linked to: McCaslin plantation