Wicked Witch of the East
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The Wicked Witch of the East is a powerful and malevolent witch from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, best known for being crushed by Dorothy’s falling house at the beginning of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wicked Witch of the East canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984481 — 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: Wicked Witch of the East Context triple: [Dorothy Gale, killsCharacter, Wicked Witch of the East]
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A.
Wicked Witch of the West
The Wicked Witch of the West is the iconic green-skinned villain from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, best known as Dorothy’s primary antagonist in the classic film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.
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B.
Glinda the Good Witch
Glinda the Good Witch is a benevolent and powerful sorceress from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe, best known for guiding Dorothy on her journey home.
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C.
Princess Ozma
Princess Ozma is a fictional royal character from L. Frank Baum’s Oz book series, serving as the rightful ruler of the Land of Oz.
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D.
The Cowardly Lion
The Cowardly Lion is a fictional lion from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, best known as Dorothy’s timid yet ultimately brave companion in "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Queen Red
Queen Red was one of the designated assault sub-sectors of Sword Beach used by Allied forces during the D-Day landings in World War II.
- 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: Wicked Witch of the East Target entity description: The Wicked Witch of the East is a powerful and malevolent witch from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, best known for being crushed by Dorothy’s falling house at the beginning of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
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A.
Wicked Witch of the West
The Wicked Witch of the West is the iconic green-skinned villain from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, best known as Dorothy’s primary antagonist in the classic film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.
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B.
Glinda the Good Witch
Glinda the Good Witch is a benevolent and powerful sorceress from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe, best known for guiding Dorothy on her journey home.
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C.
Princess Ozma
Princess Ozma is a fictional royal character from L. Frank Baum’s Oz book series, serving as the rightful ruler of the Land of Oz.
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D.
The Cowardly Lion
The Cowardly Lion is a fictional lion from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, best known as Dorothy’s timid yet ultimately brave companion in "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Queen Red
Queen Red was one of the designated assault sub-sectors of Sword Beach used by Allied forces during the D-Day landings in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Wicked Witch of the East Description of subject: The Wicked Witch of the East is a powerful and malevolent witch from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, best known for being crushed by Dorothy’s falling house at the beginning of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dorothy Gale