Charles Surface
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Charles Surface is a central, good-hearted but reckless young gentleman in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy play "The School for Scandal."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Surface canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10452942 — 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: Charles Surface Context triple: [The School for Scandal, notableCharacter, Charles Surface]
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A.
George Coe
George Coe was an American actor and voice artist known for his work in film, television, and theater, including being part of the original Saturday Night Live cast.
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B.
Robert Simonds
Robert Simonds is an American film producer and studio executive known for producing a string of successful Hollywood comedies and founding the media company STX Entertainment.
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C.
Martin Graham
Martin Graham is an author known for co-writing academic or technical works alongside Howard W. Johnson.
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D.
Lewis Milles
Lewis Milles was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament in the early 18th century.
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E.
Robert Sharp
Robert Sharp is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as science, sports, and the arts.
- 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: Charles Surface Target entity description: Charles Surface is a central, good-hearted but reckless young gentleman in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy play "The School for Scandal."
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A.
George Coe
George Coe was an American actor and voice artist known for his work in film, television, and theater, including being part of the original Saturday Night Live cast.
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B.
Robert Simonds
Robert Simonds is an American film producer and studio executive known for producing a string of successful Hollywood comedies and founding the media company STX Entertainment.
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C.
Martin Graham
Martin Graham is an author known for co-writing academic or technical works alongside Howard W. Johnson.
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D.
Lewis Milles
Lewis Milles was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament in the early 18th century.
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E.
Robert Sharp
Robert Sharp is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as science, sports, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The School for Scandal
ⓘ
linked to:
The School for Scandal (stage)
|
| appearsInGenre | comedy of manners ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
hypocrisy versus sincerity
ⓘ
scandal and reputation ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
carefree
ⓘ
generous ⓘ good-hearted ⓘ honest ⓘ improvident ⓘ reckless ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Joseph Surface ⓘ |
| creator | Richard Brinsley Sheridan ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceDate | 1777 ⓘ |
| firstAppearancePlace | Drury Lane Theatre, London ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Joseph Surface ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Surface ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | character analyses in literary criticism ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Maria ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | ultimately virtuous ⓘ |
| moralArc | matures over the course of the play ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| notableScene | auction of family portraits ⓘ |
| relative |
Joseph Surface
ⓘ
Sir Oliver Surface ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| setInWork |
18th-century London
ⓘ
linked to:
Georgian London
|
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: Charles Surface Description of subject: Charles Surface is a central, good-hearted but reckless young gentleman in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy play "The School for Scandal."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.