In recent years analyzing constellations of fictional entities in literary fiction has seen a lot of interest (Elson et al. 2010, Agarwal et al. 2012). Those constellations are often visualized as networks of entities apparent in the document. Even though the pipelines used for preprocessing vary drastically they all share some common steps. In order to draw a network, one needs to define nodes and edges. An obvious choice for the nodes are the fictional entities. Those entities appear either as pronouns, nominal references or names. The detection of those character references (CR) was used for a multitude of different applications in automatic digital humanities processing, most notably genre detection (Hettinger et al. 2015) and coreference resolution (e.g. Lee et al. 2013).