Ted Cole
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Ted Cole is a central fictional character in John Irving’s novel "A Widow for One Year," portrayed as a charismatic yet deeply flawed children’s book author whose personal tragedies and infidelities shape much of the story’s emotional landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Cole canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9356763 — 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: Ted Cole Context triple: [A Widow for One Year, hasMainCharacter, Ted Cole]
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A.
Billy Cole
Billy Cole is a menacing human servant and protector of the vampire Jerry Dandrige in the 1985 horror film "Fright Night."
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B.
Tim Cole
Tim Cole is an Australian musician best known as a member of the ambient/world music group Not Drowning, Waving.
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C.
Dennis Coles
Dennis Coles, better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and prominent member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
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D.
Ken Coleman
Ken Coleman was an American sportscaster best known for his long career calling Major League Baseball and NFL games on radio and television, particularly for the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Browns.
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E.
Bill Coen
Bill Coen is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Northeastern University men's basketball program.
- 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: Ted Cole Target entity description: Ted Cole is a central fictional character in John Irving’s novel "A Widow for One Year," portrayed as a charismatic yet deeply flawed children’s book author whose personal tragedies and infidelities shape much of the story’s emotional landscape.
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A.
Billy Cole
Billy Cole is a menacing human servant and protector of the vampire Jerry Dandrige in the 1985 horror film "Fright Night."
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B.
Tim Cole
Tim Cole is an Australian musician best known as a member of the ambient/world music group Not Drowning, Waving.
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C.
Dennis Coles
Dennis Coles, better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and prominent member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
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D.
Ken Coleman
Ken Coleman was an American sportscaster best known for his long career calling Major League Baseball and NFL games on radio and television, particularly for the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Browns.
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E.
Bill Coen
Bill Coen is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the Northeastern University men's basketball program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Widow for One Year ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Irving ⓘ |
| experiences | grief over death of his sons ⓘ |
| familyRole |
father of Ruth Cole
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father of Thomas Cole ⓘ father of Timothy Cole ⓘ husband of Marion Cole ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | A Widow for One Year ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasCreativeField | children's literature ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
charismatic
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flawed ⓘ manipulative ⓘ self-destructive ⓘ unfaithful ⓘ |
| hasThemeAssociation |
art and exploitation
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marital infidelity ⓘ parental grief ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
personal tragedies
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serial infidelity ⓘ |
| occupation | children's book author ⓘ |
| playsRoleIn | emotional landscape of A Widow for One Year ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Ted Cole Description of subject: Ted Cole is a central fictional character in John Irving’s novel "A Widow for One Year," portrayed as a charismatic yet deeply flawed children’s book author whose personal tragedies and infidelities shape much of the story’s emotional landscape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.