Shreve McCannon
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Shreve McCannon is a Canadian Harvard roommate of Quentin Compson who serves as a key narrative voice reconstructing the Sutpen family saga in William Faulkner’s novel "Absalom, Absalom!".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shreve McCannon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5587348 — 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: Shreve McCannon Context triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, coNarrator, Shreve McCannon]
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A.
Ward McAllister
Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century New York social arbiter best known for codifying the rules of high society and helping define the elite circle known as "The Four Hundred."
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B.
J. S. T. Stranahan
J. S. T. Stranahan was a prominent 19th-century American politician and civic leader, best known for his key role in the development of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
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C.
Hinton Blewett
Hinton Blewett is a small rural village in Somerset, England, known for its historic church and scenic setting within the Chew Valley countryside.
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D.
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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E.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
- 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: Shreve McCannon Target entity description: Shreve McCannon is a Canadian Harvard roommate of Quentin Compson who serves as a key narrative voice reconstructing the Sutpen family saga in William Faulkner’s novel "Absalom, Absalom!".
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A.
Ward McAllister
Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century New York social arbiter best known for codifying the rules of high society and helping define the elite circle known as "The Four Hundred."
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B.
J. S. T. Stranahan
J. S. T. Stranahan was a prominent 19th-century American politician and civic leader, best known for his key role in the development of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
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C.
Hinton Blewett
Hinton Blewett is a small rural village in Somerset, England, known for its historic church and scenic setting within the Chew Valley countryside.
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D.
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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E.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Absalom, Absalom!
ⓘ
The Sound and the Fury ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Harvard University
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Quentin Compson ⓘ Sutpen family ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| education | Harvard University ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fiction
ⓘ
linked to:
William Faulkner bibliography
|
| friendOf | Quentin Compson ⓘ |
| genre | Southern Gothic ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | reconstructs the Sutpen family saga ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
frame narrator
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narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| roommateOf | Quentin Compson ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Shreve McCannon Description of subject: Shreve McCannon is a Canadian Harvard roommate of Quentin Compson who serves as a key narrative voice reconstructing the Sutpen family saga in William Faulkner’s novel "Absalom, Absalom!".
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.