Dominie Sampson
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Dominie Sampson is a learned but eccentric and absent-minded Scottish schoolmaster who serves as a comic yet sympathetic character in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Guy Mannering."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dominie Sampson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8767385 — 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: Dominie Sampson Context triple: [Guy Mannering, hasMainCharacter, Dominie Sampson]
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A.
Montfort Browne
Montfort Browne was an 18th-century British colonial official and military officer, notably serving as governor of the Bahamas during the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Jane Murfin
Jane Murfin was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director active in early Hollywood, known for co-writing successful stage plays and films during the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
Garnet Bailey
Garnet Bailey was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and longtime NHL scout best known for his Stanley Cup wins with the Boston Bruins and his later scouting work before his death in the September 11 attacks.
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E.
Katherine Schofield
Katherine Schofield is an actress known for her role in the biographical television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
- 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: Dominie Sampson Target entity description: Dominie Sampson is a learned but eccentric and absent-minded Scottish schoolmaster who serves as a comic yet sympathetic character in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Guy Mannering."
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A.
Montfort Browne
Montfort Browne was an 18th-century British colonial official and military officer, notably serving as governor of the Bahamas during the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Jane Murfin
Jane Murfin was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director active in early Hollywood, known for co-writing successful stage plays and films during the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
Garnet Bailey
Garnet Bailey was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and longtime NHL scout best known for his Stanley Cup wins with the Boston Bruins and his later scouting work before his death in the September 11 attacks.
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E.
Katherine Schofield
Katherine Schofield is an actress known for her role in the biographical television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ schoolmaster ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Guy Mannering ⓘ |
| appearsInAuthor | Sir Walter Scott ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
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linked to:
Guy Mannering
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| characterRole |
comic character
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sympathetic character ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Walter Scott
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linked to:
Sir Walter Scott
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| fictionalUniverse | Guy Mannering universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Guy Mannering ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1815 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | historical novel ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Sir Walter Scott ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Romantic era ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic pedantry
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exclamation "Prodigious" ⓘ |
| occupation | schoolmaster ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Scotland ⓘ |
| trait |
absent-minded
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eccentric ⓘ learned ⓘ |
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: Dominie Sampson Description of subject: Dominie Sampson is a learned but eccentric and absent-minded Scottish schoolmaster who serves as a comic yet sympathetic character in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Guy Mannering."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.