Sadie Thompson
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Sadie Thompson is a fictional character from W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Rain,” best known as a provocative young woman whose presence on a Pacific island triggers moral conflict and psychological unraveling in a fanatically religious missionary.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sadie Thompson canonical | 3 |
| Miss Sadie Thompson | 1 |
| Miss Sadie Thompson (1953 film) | 1 |
| Sadie Thompson (1928 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T978870 — 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: Sadie Thompson Context triple: [June Havoc, notableWork, Sadie Thompson]
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A.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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B.
Betty Blake
Betty Blake was the wife of American humorist and entertainer Will Rogers, known for supporting his career and managing family life while he rose to national fame.
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C.
Nora Barlow
Nora Barlow was a British botanist and editor best known as Charles Darwin’s granddaughter and for publishing and annotating key editions of his works and correspondence.
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D.
Sheila
Sheila is a feminine given name of Irish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Delilah
Delilah is a biblical figure best known for betraying Samson by discovering and revealing the secret of his strength.
- 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: Sadie Thompson Target entity description: Sadie Thompson is a fictional character from W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Rain,” best known as a provocative young woman whose presence on a Pacific island triggers moral conflict and psychological unraveling in a fanatically religious missionary.
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A.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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B.
Betty Blake
Betty Blake was the wife of American humorist and entertainer Will Rogers, known for supporting his career and managing family life while he rose to national fame.
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C.
Nora Barlow
Nora Barlow was a British botanist and editor best known as Charles Darwin’s granddaughter and for publishing and annotating key editions of his works and correspondence.
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D.
Sheila
Sheila is a feminine given name of Irish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Delilah
Delilah is a biblical figure best known for betraying Samson by discovering and revealing the secret of his strength.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Sadie Thompson
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953 film)
Rain (1928 film) ⓘ Rain (1928 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Rain (1932 film)
Sadie Thompson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sadie Thompson (1928 film)
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| antagonistOf | Alfred Davidson ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Rain ⓘ |
| appearsInForm | short story ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
colonialism
ⓘ
hypocrisy ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ redemption ⓘ religious fanaticism ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| causes | psychological unraveling of Alfred Davidson ⓘ |
| centralToPlotElement | clash between desire and religious morality ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | literature ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | Alfred Davidson ⓘ |
| creator | W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Rain ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTrait |
defiant
ⓘ
outspoken ⓘ resilient ⓘ sensual ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | The Trembling of a Leaf ⓘ |
| influencedByContext | British colonial era in the Pacific ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | realist short story ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| medium | fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst for moral conflict ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | prostitute ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
morally complex character
ⓘ
provocative young woman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Gloria Swanson
ⓘ
Joan Crawford ⓘ Rita Hayworth ⓘ |
| relatedWorkType |
adapted into films
ⓘ
adapted into stage plays ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| storySetting |
Pacific island
ⓘ
Samoa ⓘ |
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: Sadie Thompson Description of subject: Sadie Thompson is a fictional character from W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Rain,” best known as a provocative young woman whose presence on a Pacific island triggers moral conflict and psychological unraveling in a fanatically religious missionary.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Miss Sadie Thompson
this entity surface form:
Sadie Thompson (1928 film)
this entity surface form:
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953 film)