Snobby Price
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Snobby Price is a comic, hypocritical follower of the Salvation Army in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Major Barbara," used to satirize false piety and moral pretension.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Snobby Price canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11197075 — 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: Snobby Price Context triple: [Major Barbara, mainCharacter, Snobby Price]
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A.
Lewis Price
Lewis Price is one of the central family members in Terry McMillan’s novel "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," whose personal struggles and relationships help drive the book’s exploration of family dynamics and redemption.
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B.
Carre Otis
Carre Otis is an American model and actress who rose to fame in the late 1980s and 1990s, known for her work with major fashion brands and her role in the film "Wild Orchid."
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C.
Billy Getty
Billy Getty is an American businessman and member of the prominent Getty family, known for his involvement in hospitality and nightlife ventures.
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D.
Robin Spry
Robin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work in documentary and dramatic cinema, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Taylor Goldsmith
Taylor Goldsmith is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman and primary songwriter of the folk-rock band Dawes.
- 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: Snobby Price Target entity description: Snobby Price is a comic, hypocritical follower of the Salvation Army in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Major Barbara," used to satirize false piety and moral pretension.
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A.
Lewis Price
Lewis Price is one of the central family members in Terry McMillan’s novel "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," whose personal struggles and relationships help drive the book’s exploration of family dynamics and redemption.
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B.
Carre Otis
Carre Otis is an American model and actress who rose to fame in the late 1980s and 1990s, known for her work with major fashion brands and her role in the film "Wild Orchid."
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C.
Billy Getty
Billy Getty is an American businessman and member of the prominent Getty family, known for his involvement in hospitality and nightlife ventures.
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D.
Robin Spry
Robin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work in documentary and dramatic cinema, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Taylor Goldsmith
Taylor Goldsmith is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman and primary songwriter of the folk-rock band Dawes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a play
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fictional character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Major Barbara ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
charity
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morality ⓘ religion ⓘ social hypocrisy ⓘ |
| characterRole |
comic character
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hypocritical character ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Bernard Shaw ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
satirizes false piety
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satirizes moral pretension ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| occupation | follower of the Salvation Army ⓘ |
| partOf | Major Barbara character list ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Salvation Army ⓘ |
| usedAs |
example of religious hypocrisy in literature
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vehicle for social criticism ⓘ |
| workDate | 1905 ⓘ |
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: Snobby Price Description of subject: Snobby Price is a comic, hypocritical follower of the Salvation Army in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Major Barbara," used to satirize false piety and moral pretension.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.