Meredith Black
E164696
Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meredith Black canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1180994 — 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: Meredith Black Context triple: [The Beaver, mainCharacter, Meredith Black]
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A.
Anna Davenport Raines
Anna Davenport Raines was a prominent Southern civic leader and memorialist best known as a co-founder of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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B.
Mercy Bradford
Mercy Bradford was a daughter of William Bradford, the longtime governor of Plymouth Colony and a prominent leader among the early Pilgrims in New England.
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C.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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D.
Laura Lyons
Laura Lyons is the mother of American fashion model Lily Aldridge.
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E.
Katherine Clifton
Katherine Clifton is a central character in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," known for her tragic love affair and its far-reaching consequences during 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: Meredith Black Target entity description: Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
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A.
Anna Davenport Raines
Anna Davenport Raines was a prominent Southern civic leader and memorialist best known as a co-founder of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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B.
Mercy Bradford
Mercy Bradford was a daughter of William Bradford, the longtime governor of Plymouth Colony and a prominent leader among the early Pilgrims in New England.
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C.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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D.
Laura Lyons
Laura Lyons is the mother of American fashion model Lily Aldridge.
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E.
Katherine Clifton
Katherine Clifton is a central character in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," known for her tragic love affair and its far-reaching consequences during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Beaver ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
coping mechanisms
ⓘ
depression ⓘ family dysfunction ⓘ mental illness ⓘ |
| causeOfFamilyCrisis | Walter Black's severe depression ⓘ |
| centralToPlotElement |
family's response to mental illness
ⓘ
marriage under strain ⓘ |
| createdFor |
The Beaver
ⓘ
surface form:
The Beaver (2011 film)
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| emotionallyAffectedBy | Walter Black's use of the beaver puppet ⓘ |
| experiences |
emotional distress
ⓘ
marital conflict ⓘ |
| familyRole |
mother
ⓘ
wife ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Walter Black ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeConflict | husband's unconventional coping mechanism ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | troubled protagonist ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
The Beaver
ⓘ
surface form:
The Beaver (film universe)
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| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| spouseRelationshipContext | marital difficulties ⓘ |
| witnesses | Walter Black communicating through a beaver hand puppet ⓘ |
| workOfFictionType | film ⓘ |
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: Meredith Black Description of subject: Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.