Walter Moody
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Walter Moody is a central character in Eleanor Catton’s novel "The Luminaries," a Scottish lawyer who becomes entangled in a complex web of mysteries in 19th-century New Zealand.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Moody canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10015363 — 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: Walter Moody Context triple: [Ben Esler, portrayed, Walter Moody]
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A.
Henry Maynard
Henry Maynard was a mountaineer known for being among the first to successfully climb the Breithorn in the Alps.
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B.
Ogden Morrow
Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
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C.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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D.
Walter Nelson
Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
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E.
Frank Parrish
Frank Parrish is a fictional character portrayed by actor Tim Reid, likely in a film or television production.
- 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: Walter Moody Target entity description: Walter Moody is a central character in Eleanor Catton’s novel "The Luminaries," a Scottish lawyer who becomes entangled in a complex web of mysteries in 19th-century New Zealand.
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A.
Henry Maynard
Henry Maynard was a mountaineer known for being among the first to successfully climb the Breithorn in the Alps.
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B.
Ogden Morrow
Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
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C.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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D.
Walter Nelson
Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
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E.
Frank Parrish
Frank Parrish is a fictional character portrayed by actor Tim Reid, likely in a film or television production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Luminaries ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hokitika
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goldfields on the West Coast of New Zealand ⓘ |
| authorNationality | New Zealander ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| createdBy | Eleanor Catton ⓘ |
| entangledIn | complex web of crimes and secrets ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Luminaries ⓘ |
| firstPublicationAppearance |
The Luminaries (2013)
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linked to:
The Luminaries
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | historical fiction ⓘ |
| involvedIn | series of mysteries in Hokitika ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryAwardContext |
The Luminaries won the 2013 Man Booker Prize
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linked to:
The Luminaries
|
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for plot revelations
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outsider observer ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstAppearance | Granta Books ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| settingOfFictionalWork | New Zealand ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Walter Moody Description of subject: Walter Moody is a central character in Eleanor Catton’s novel "The Luminaries," a Scottish lawyer who becomes entangled in a complex web of mysteries in 19th-century New Zealand.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.