Aunt Polly
E11795
Aunt Polly is Tom Sawyer’s strict but loving aunt and guardian in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aunt Polly canonical | 19 |
| Tom Sawyer's aunt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110538 — 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: Aunt Polly Context triple: [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, mainCharacter, Aunt Polly]
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A.
Aunt Eller
Aunt Eller is a plainspoken, good-humored farm matriarch who serves as a stabilizing, wisecracking presence in the musical "Oklahoma!".
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B.
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is a mischievous and imaginative boy from Mark Twain’s classic American novels, known for his adventurous exploits along the Mississippi River.
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C.
Jem
Jem is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name James.
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D.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Ann Putnam Jr.
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the most prominent accusers during the Salem witch trials, whose testimonies played a major role in the prosecution and execution of alleged witches.
- 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: Aunt Polly Target entity description: Aunt Polly is Tom Sawyer’s strict but loving aunt and guardian in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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A.
Aunt Eller
Aunt Eller is a plainspoken, good-humored farm matriarch who serves as a stabilizing, wisecracking presence in the musical "Oklahoma!".
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B.
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is a mischievous and imaginative boy from Mark Twain’s classic American novels, known for his adventurous exploits along the Mississippi River.
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C.
Jem
Jem is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name James.
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D.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Ann Putnam Jr.
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the most prominent accusers during the Salem witch trials, whose testimonies played a major role in the prosecution and execution of alleged witches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Aunt Polly Description of subject: Aunt Polly is Tom Sawyer’s strict but loving aunt and guardian in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
St. Petersburg, Missouri
subject surface form:
Aunt Polly
this entity surface form:
Tom Sawyer's aunt