William Boldwood
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William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Boldwood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12263611 — 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: William Boldwood Context triple: [Far from the Madding Crowd, mainCharacter, William Boldwood]
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Thomas Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
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B.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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C.
Charles Waterstreet
Charles Waterstreet is an Australian barrister, author, and former television producer best known for inspiring and co-creating the legal drama series "Rake."
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D.
William Dorrit
William Dorrit is a central figure in Charles Dickens's novel "Little Dorrit," known as Amy Dorrit’s father whose long imprisonment for debt and later rise to wealth highlight themes of pride, social status, and personal transformation.
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E.
Tertius Lydgate
Tertius Lydgate is an idealistic young doctor in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose progressive medical ambitions and troubled marriage drive much of the book’s social and psychological drama.
- 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: William Boldwood Target entity description: William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
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A.
Thomas Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
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B.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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C.
Charles Waterstreet
Charles Waterstreet is an Australian barrister, author, and former television producer best known for inspiring and co-creating the legal drama series "Rake."
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D.
William Dorrit
William Dorrit is a central figure in Charles Dickens's novel "Little Dorrit," known as Amy Dorrit’s father whose long imprisonment for debt and later rise to wealth highlight themes of pride, social status, and personal transformation.
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E.
Tertius Lydgate
Tertius Lydgate is an idealistic young doctor in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose progressive medical ambitions and troubled marriage drive much of the book’s social and psychological drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.