Nora Bolden
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Nora Bolden is a fictional character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Coming Through Slaughter," connected to the turbulent life of jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nora Bolden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10391652 — 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: Nora Bolden Context triple: [Coming Through Slaughter, hasCharacter, Nora Bolden]
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A.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
Zerelda Mimms
Zerelda Mimms was the wife of infamous American outlaw Jesse James and a first cousin of his, known primarily for her association with the James family.
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C.
Beulah Brown
Beulah Brown is the central housekeeper character from the mid-20th-century American radio and television comedy series "Beulah."
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D.
Marion Brown
Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
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E.
Barboura Morris
Barboura Morris was an American actress best known for her roles in several 1950s and 1960s low-budget and cult films, particularly those produced by American International Pictures.
- 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: Nora Bolden Target entity description: Nora Bolden is a fictional character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Coming Through Slaughter," connected to the turbulent life of jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden.
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A.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
Zerelda Mimms
Zerelda Mimms was the wife of infamous American outlaw Jesse James and a first cousin of his, known primarily for her association with the James family.
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C.
Beulah Brown
Beulah Brown is the central housekeeper character from the mid-20th-century American radio and television comedy series "Beulah."
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D.
Marion Brown
Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
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E.
Barboura Morris
Barboura Morris was an American actress best known for her roles in several 1950s and 1960s low-budget and cult films, particularly those produced by American International Pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Coming Through Slaughter ⓘ |
| associatedGenre | jazz fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Buddy Bolden ⓘ |
| basedOn | New Orleans jazz milieu ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Buddy Bolden ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| creator | Michael Ondaatje ⓘ |
| describedAs | connected to the turbulent life of jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Coming Through Slaughter ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Coming Through Slaughter ⓘ |
| genre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Michael Ondaatje ⓘ |
| hasNotableRelation | Buddy Bolden ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| partOfWork | Coming Through Slaughter ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfFirstAppearance | 1976 ⓘ |
| setting | New Orleans ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workOriginCountry | Canada ⓘ |
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: Nora Bolden Description of subject: Nora Bolden is a fictional character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Coming Through Slaughter," connected to the turbulent life of jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.