Mr. Todd
E601435
Mr. Todd is a sinister and eccentric character in Evelyn Waugh’s novel "A Handful of Dust," known for imprisoning the protagonist and forcing him to read Dickens aloud in the Brazilian jungle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Todd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6521249 — 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: Mr. Todd Context triple: [A Handful of Dust, hasCharacter, Mr. Todd]
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A.
Samuel Ratchett
Samuel Ratchett is a wealthy American businessman and murder victim in Agatha Christie's detective novel "Murder on the Orient Express."
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B.
Ralph Milbanke
Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Lucan the Butler
Lucan the Butler is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known for his loyalty and service to King Arthur.
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D.
James Steerforth
James Steerforth is a charismatic yet morally flawed gentleman in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," whose charm and selfishness profoundly affect the lives of those around him.
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E.
Bustopher Jones
Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
- 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: Mr. Todd Target entity description: Mr. Todd is a sinister and eccentric character in Evelyn Waugh’s novel "A Handful of Dust," known for imprisoning the protagonist and forcing him to read Dickens aloud in the Brazilian jungle.
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A.
Samuel Ratchett
Samuel Ratchett is a wealthy American businessman and murder victim in Agatha Christie's detective novel "Murder on the Orient Express."
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B.
Ralph Milbanke
Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Lucan the Butler
Lucan the Butler is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known for his loyalty and service to King Arthur.
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D.
James Steerforth
James Steerforth is a charismatic yet morally flawed gentleman in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," whose charm and selfishness profoundly affect the lives of those around him.
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E.
Bustopher Jones
Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Handful of Dust ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation | adaptations of A Handful of Dust ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
cruelty
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cultural dislocation ⓘ madness ⓘ |
| characterIn | novel ⓘ |
| createdBy | Evelyn Waugh ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | A Handful of Dust ⓘ |
| forcesReadingMaterial | works of Charles Dickens ⓘ |
| forcesToRead | Tony Last ⓘ |
| genreContext | satirical novel ⓘ |
| imprisons | Tony Last ⓘ |
| imprisonsIn | Brazilian jungle ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
agent of Tony Last’s final isolation
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symbol of imprisonment ⓘ |
| nationalityContext | British literature ⓘ |
| obsessionWith | Charles Dickens ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
eccentric
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sinister ⓘ |
| publicationContext |
A Handful of Dust (1934 novel)
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linked to:
A Handful of Dust
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| roleInWork | antagonist ⓘ |
| settingAssociatedWith | Brazil ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
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: Mr. Todd Description of subject: Mr. Todd is a sinister and eccentric character in Evelyn Waugh’s novel "A Handful of Dust," known for imprisoning the protagonist and forcing him to read Dickens aloud in the Brazilian jungle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.