Rosa Coldfield
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Rosa Coldfield is a central figure in William Faulkner’s novel *Absalom, Absalom!*, serving as one of the primary narrators whose recollections help unravel the tragic history of the Sutpen family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rosa Coldfield canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5587322 — 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: Rosa Coldfield Context triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, mainCharacter, Rosa Coldfield]
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A.
Lucinda Ashby
Lucinda Ashby is an Episcopal bishop who leads the Diocese of El Camino Real in California.
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B.
Rosemary Thorpe
Rosemary Thorpe is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Thorpe.
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C.
Rosalie Booth
Rosalie Booth was a 19th-century American woman best known as a member of the prominent Booth theatrical family, which included several famous stage actors.
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D.
Elizabeth Cranfield
Elizabeth Cranfield was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, best known as the mother of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
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E.
Rebecca Rolfe
Rebecca Rolfe is the English name taken by Pocahontas, the Native American woman known for her association with the Jamestown colony and her marriage to John Rolfe.
- 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: Rosa Coldfield Target entity description: Rosa Coldfield is a central figure in William Faulkner’s novel *Absalom, Absalom!*, serving as one of the primary narrators whose recollections help unravel the tragic history of the Sutpen family.
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A.
Lucinda Ashby
Lucinda Ashby is an Episcopal bishop who leads the Diocese of El Camino Real in California.
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B.
Rosemary Thorpe
Rosemary Thorpe is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Thorpe.
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C.
Rosalie Booth
Rosalie Booth was a 19th-century American woman best known as a member of the prominent Booth theatrical family, which included several famous stage actors.
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D.
Elizabeth Cranfield
Elizabeth Cranfield was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, best known as the mother of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
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E.
Rebecca Rolfe
Rebecca Rolfe is the English name taken by Pocahontas, the Native American woman known for her association with the Jamestown colony and her marriage to John Rolfe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Absalom, Absalom! ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorCycle | Yoknapatawpha saga ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily |
Coldfield family
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Sutpen family ⓘ |
| aunt | Mrs. Coldfield ⓘ |
| brotherInLaw | Thomas Sutpen ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
bitter
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deeply religious ⓘ obsessive ⓘ proud ⓘ vengeful ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| engagedTo | Thomas Sutpen ⓘ |
| engagementStatus | broken engagement ⓘ |
| fictionalResidence |
Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
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linked to:
Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County
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| firstPublicationContext |
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
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linked to:
Absalom, Absalom!
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
embodiment of Southern resentment
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unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | major voice constructing the Sutpen legend ⓘ |
| narratesTo | Quentin Compson ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person account ⓘ |
| narrativeReliability | biased by personal grievance ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | poet ⓘ |
| relationshipToEllenColdfield | younger sister ⓘ |
| relationshipToQuentinCompson | older towns-woman and narrator ⓘ |
| relationshipToThomasSutpen | former fiancée ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
primary narrator
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storyteller of Sutpen family history ⓘ |
| setIn | fictional Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| sibling | Ellen Coldfield ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
American South history
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decay of Southern aristocracy ⓘ gender and patriarchy ⓘ memory and storytelling ⓘ race and miscegenation ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
American Civil War era
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linked to:
American Civil War
Reconstruction era ⓘ |
| uncle | Mr. Coldfield ⓘ |
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: Rosa Coldfield Description of subject: Rosa Coldfield is a central figure in William Faulkner’s novel *Absalom, Absalom!*, serving as one of the primary narrators whose recollections help unravel the tragic history of the Sutpen family.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.