Cedric Lyne
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Cedric Lyne is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s satirical World War II novel "Put Out More Flags," representing the feckless, upper-class milieu the book lampoons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cedric Lyne canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6635106 — 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: Cedric Lyne Context triple: [Put Out More Flags, featuresCharacter, Cedric Lyne]
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A.
Cedric
Cedric is a central comedic character in the film "Think Like a Man," portrayed as a recently divorced man navigating relationships and masculinity with humorous bravado and vulnerability.
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B.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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C.
Stephen Orlac
Stephen Orlac is the tormented concert pianist in the 1935 horror film "Mad Love," whose transplanted hands drive him toward madness and violence.
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D.
Cedric Maxwell
Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
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E.
Andre Lyon
Andre Lyon is a central character on the television drama "Empire," known as the ambitious and troubled eldest son of the Lyon family who battles mental health issues while vying for control of the family’s music empire.
- 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: Cedric Lyne Target entity description: Cedric Lyne is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s satirical World War II novel "Put Out More Flags," representing the feckless, upper-class milieu the book lampoons.
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A.
Cedric
Cedric is a central comedic character in the film "Think Like a Man," portrayed as a recently divorced man navigating relationships and masculinity with humorous bravado and vulnerability.
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B.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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C.
Stephen Orlac
Stephen Orlac is the tormented concert pianist in the 1935 horror film "Mad Love," whose transplanted hands drive him toward madness and violence.
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D.
Cedric Maxwell
Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
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E.
Andre Lyon
Andre Lyon is a central character on the television drama "Empire," known as the ambitious and troubled eldest son of the Lyon family who battles mental health issues while vying for control of the family’s music empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Put Out More Flags ⓘ |
| characterType | feckless ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Evelyn Waugh ⓘ |
| depictsSocialClass | British upper class ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Put Out More Flags ⓘ |
| genre | satire ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction | object of social satire ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | representative of feckless upper-class milieu ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | World War II ⓘ |
| workType | novel character ⓘ |
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: Cedric Lyne Description of subject: Cedric Lyne is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s satirical World War II novel "Put Out More Flags," representing the feckless, upper-class milieu the book lampoons.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.