Lily Bell
E100701
Lily Bell is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," portrayed as a determined and resourceful Englishwoman navigating the dangers and politics surrounding the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lily Bell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T661085 — 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: Lily Bell Context triple: [Hell on Wheels, hasMainCharacter, Lily Bell]
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A.
Lily
Lily is a feminine given name of English origin commonly associated with the lily flower and symbolizing purity and beauty.
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B.
Daisy Parker
Daisy Parker was the first wife of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, whom he married in the early 1920s.
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C.
Lina Lamont
Lina Lamont is a comically vain, shrill-voiced silent film star whose struggle to adapt to talking pictures drives much of the humor and conflict in the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Lilly Belle
Lilly Belle is a steam locomotive that operates on the Walt Disney World Railroad at the Magic Kingdom theme park in Florida.
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E.
Esme Valerie Fletcher
Esme Valerie Fletcher, better known as Valerie Eliot, was the second wife and literary executor of poet T. S. Eliot, playing a key role in editing and preserving his works and legacy.
- 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: Lily Bell Target entity description: Lily Bell is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," portrayed as a determined and resourceful Englishwoman navigating the dangers and politics surrounding the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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A.
Lily
Lily is a feminine given name of English origin commonly associated with the lily flower and symbolizing purity and beauty.
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B.
Daisy Parker
Daisy Parker was the first wife of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, whom he married in the early 1920s.
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C.
Lina Lamont
Lina Lamont is a comically vain, shrill-voiced silent film star whose struggle to adapt to talking pictures drives much of the humor and conflict in the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Lilly Belle
Lilly Belle is a steam locomotive that operates on the Walt Disney World Railroad at the Magic Kingdom theme park in Florida.
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E.
Esme Valerie Fletcher
Esme Valerie Fletcher, better known as Valerie Eliot, was the second wife and literary executor of poet T. S. Eliot, playing a key role in editing and preserving his works and legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hell on Wheels ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cullen Bohannon
ⓘ
Thomas Durant ⓘ Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
determined
ⓘ
independent ⓘ intelligent ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Native American tribes
ⓘ
business rivals of Thomas Durant ⓘ railroad laborers ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdFor | Hell on Wheels ⓘ |
| deathInSeries | yes ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Hell on Wheels
ⓘ
surface form:
Hell on Wheels Season 1
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
Western television series
ⓘ
historical drama television series ⓘ |
| hairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| helps |
Thomas Durant
ⓘ
Union Pacific Railroad expansion ⓘ |
| involvedIn | politics of railroad construction ⓘ |
| killedInSeason |
Hell on Wheels
ⓘ
surface form:
Hell on Wheels Season 2
|
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| maritalStatusAtIntroduction | married ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | represents Eastern capital interests in the West ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| network | AMC ⓘ |
| occupation |
railroad executive advisor
ⓘ
railroad surveyor assistant ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| origin | England ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dominique McElligott ⓘ |
| residenceDuringSeries |
Hell on Wheels
ⓘ
surface form:
Hell on Wheels railroad camp
|
| romanticRelationshipWith | Cullen Bohannon ⓘ |
| setting |
Old West
ⓘ
surface form:
American Old West
construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad ⓘ |
| spouse | Robert Bell ⓘ |
| themeEmbodies |
clash between civilization and frontier life
ⓘ
female agency in the American frontier ⓘ |
| worksOn | survey maps for the transcontinental railroad ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lily Bell Description of subject: Lily Bell is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," portrayed as a determined and resourceful Englishwoman navigating the dangers and politics surrounding the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Durant (Hell on Wheels)