Mathilda in Roots
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Mathilda in *Roots* is a character in the landmark 1977 television miniseries chronicling generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mathilda in Roots canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1756992 — 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: Mathilda in Roots Context triple: [Olivia Cole, notableRole, Mathilda in Roots]
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A.
Kizzy in Roots
Kizzy in *Roots* is a pivotal character in the landmark 1977 television miniseries, portrayed as the strong-willed daughter of Kunta Kinte who endures enslavement while preserving her family's legacy and resilience.
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B.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
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D.
The Black Family
The Black Family is an Irish folk music group known for its rich vocal harmonies and traditional repertoire, featuring members of the Black family including singer Mary Black.
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E.
Eva St. Clare
Eva St. Clare is a gentle, angelic young girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," symbolizing Christian compassion and moral purity.
- 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: Mathilda in Roots Target entity description: Mathilda in *Roots* is a character in the landmark 1977 television miniseries chronicling generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation.
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A.
Kizzy in Roots
Kizzy in *Roots* is a pivotal character in the landmark 1977 television miniseries, portrayed as the strong-willed daughter of Kunta Kinte who endures enslavement while preserving her family's legacy and resilience.
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B.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
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D.
The Black Family
The Black Family is an Irish folk music group known for its rich vocal harmonies and traditional repertoire, featuring members of the Black family including singer Mary Black.
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E.
Eva St. Clare
Eva St. Clare is a gentle, angelic young girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," symbolizing Christian compassion and moral purity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Roots
ⓘ
Roots (1977 television miniseries) ⓘ
surface form:
Roots (1977 miniseries)
|
| basedOnAuthor | Alex Haley ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Roots: The Saga of an American Family ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depictsPeriod |
American slavery era
ⓘ
Reconstruction era ⓘ
surface form:
Reconstruction era United States
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Roots
ⓘ
surface form:
Roots universe
|
| genre | historical drama ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground | African American ⓘ |
| hasNotability | character in landmark American television miniseries ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | member of an African American family across generations ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
enslavement to emancipation
ⓘ
family lineage and heritage ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| partOf | African American multigenerational family saga in Roots ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Roots franchise ⓘ |
| portrayedInFormat | live-action television ⓘ |
| subjectOf | critical discussions of African American representation on television ⓘ |
| workType | television miniseries character ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1977 ⓘ |
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: Mathilda in Roots Description of subject: Mathilda in *Roots* is a character in the landmark 1977 television miniseries chronicling generations of an African American family from enslavement to emancipation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.