Gloria Matthews
E102027
Gloria Matthews is a central character in Terry McMillan’s novel and its film adaptation "Waiting to Exhale," portrayed as a single mother navigating love, self-worth, and friendship.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gloria Matthews canonical | 5 |
| Gloria Matthews in Waiting to Exhale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206068 — 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: Gloria Matthews Context triple: [Waiting to Exhale, mainCharacter, Gloria Matthews]
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A.
Margo Anderson
Margo Anderson is best known as a former wife of American country music star Kenny Rogers.
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B.
Sharon Black
Sharon Black is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Black recognizable in her context.
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C.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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D.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
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E.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
- 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: Gloria Matthews Target entity description: Gloria Matthews is a central character in Terry McMillan’s novel and its film adaptation "Waiting to Exhale," portrayed as a single mother navigating love, self-worth, and friendship.
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A.
Margo Anderson
Margo Anderson is best known as a former wife of American country music star Kenny Rogers.
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B.
Sharon Black
Sharon Black is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Black recognizable in her context.
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C.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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D.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
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E.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Waiting to Exhale
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surface form:
Waiting to Exhale (film)
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| appearsIn |
Waiting to Exhale
ⓘ
Waiting to Exhale ⓘ
surface form:
Waiting to Exhale (film)
|
| basedOnWork |
Waiting to Exhale
ⓘ
surface form:
Waiting to Exhale (novel)
|
| creator | Terry McMillan ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African-American
|
| familyRole | single mother ⓘ |
| filmReleaseContext |
Waiting to Exhale
ⓘ
surface form:
Waiting to Exhale (1995 film)
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| firstAppearance |
Waiting to Exhale
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surface form:
Waiting to Exhale (1992 novel)
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreContext |
African-American literature
ⓘ
romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasChild | Tarik Matthews ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Bernadine Harris
ⓘ
Robin Stokes ⓘ Savannah Jackson ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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novel ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
female friendship
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ self-worth ⓘ single parenthood ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
beauty salon owner
ⓘ
hair stylist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Loretta Devine ⓘ |
| residence |
Phoenix
ⓘ
surface form:
Phoenix, Arizona
|
| settingContext | 1990s United States ⓘ |
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: Gloria Matthews Description of subject: Gloria Matthews is a central character in Terry McMillan’s novel and its film adaptation "Waiting to Exhale," portrayed as a single mother navigating love, self-worth, and friendship.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Getting to Happy
this entity surface form:
Gloria Matthews in Waiting to Exhale