Flem Snopes
E529111
Flem Snopes is a cunning, opportunistic antihero in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his ruthless social climbing and moral ambiguity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flem Snopes canonical | 14 |
| Ab Snopes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5532253 — 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: Flem Snopes Context triple: [The Hamlet, featuresCharacter, Flem Snopes]
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A.
Darl Bundren
Darl Bundren is a central, introspective and increasingly unstable member of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, known for his fragmented narration and eventual descent into madness.
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B.
Addie Bundren
Addie Bundren is the deceased matriarch of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose death and complex inner life drive the story’s exploration of identity, suffering, and family.
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C.
Dewey Dell Bundren
Dewey Dell Bundren is a central character in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, a young, pregnant daughter in the Bundren family whose inner turmoil and limited agency highlight themes of isolation, gender, and desperation in the rural American South.
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D.
Jewel Bundren
Jewel Bundren is a fiercely independent and emotionally intense son in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," known for his deep attachment to his mother and his volatile, often isolated nature.
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E.
Vardaman Bundren
Vardaman Bundren is the youngest, emotionally troubled son in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," known for his fragmented, childlike perspective and the famous line “My mother is a fish.”
- 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: Flem Snopes Target entity description: Flem Snopes is a cunning, opportunistic antihero in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his ruthless social climbing and moral ambiguity.
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A.
Darl Bundren
Darl Bundren is a central, introspective and increasingly unstable member of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, known for his fragmented narration and eventual descent into madness.
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B.
Addie Bundren
Addie Bundren is the deceased matriarch of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose death and complex inner life drive the story’s exploration of identity, suffering, and family.
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C.
Dewey Dell Bundren
Dewey Dell Bundren is a central character in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, a young, pregnant daughter in the Bundren family whose inner turmoil and limited agency highlight themes of isolation, gender, and desperation in the rural American South.
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D.
Jewel Bundren
Jewel Bundren is a fiercely independent and emotionally intense son in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," known for his deep attachment to his mother and his volatile, often isolated nature.
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E.
Vardaman Bundren
Vardaman Bundren is the youngest, emotionally troubled son in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," known for his fragmented, childlike perspective and the famous line “My mother is a fish.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Hamlet
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The Mansion ⓘ The Town ⓘ Yoknapatawpha County stories ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
capitalism
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class mobility ⓘ corruption ⓘ decay of Southern aristocracy ⓘ greed ⓘ |
| characterRole | antihero ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cunning
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morally ambiguous ⓘ opportunistic ⓘ ruthless ⓘ social climber ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| creator | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
modernist fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| memberOf | Snopes family ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodiment of ruthless economic ambition
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representation of post–Civil War Southern opportunism ⓘ symbol of social mobility ⓘ |
| occupation |
banker
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merchant ⓘ politician ⓘ store clerk ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Snopes trilogy ⓘ |
| personality |
emotionally reserved
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secretive ⓘ |
| relative |
Ab Snopes
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Ike Snopes ⓘ Lump Snopes ⓘ Mink Snopes ⓘ |
| setIn |
Mississippi
ⓘ
Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| spouse | Eula Varner Snopes ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
calculated silence
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exploitation of others ⓘ manipulation ⓘ |
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: Flem Snopes Description of subject: Flem Snopes is a cunning, opportunistic antihero in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his ruthless social climbing and moral ambiguity.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flem Snopes