Anna Corey
E207277
Anna Corey is a character in William Dean Howells's realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing the old-money Boston aristocracy in contrast to the nouveau riche Lapham family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anna Corey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842831 — 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: Anna Corey Context triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Anna Corey]
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A.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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B.
Mary Corey
Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
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C.
Mary Clare
Mary Clare was a British stage and film actress known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema and theatre.
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D.
Mary Anne Creed
Mary Anne Creed is a supporting character in the Rocky and Creed film series, known as the strong, caring widow of Apollo Creed and adoptive mother of Adonis Creed.
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E.
Elizabeth Kelly
Elizabeth Kelly was one of the sisters of American actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly, belonging to the prominent Kelly family of Philadelphia.
- 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: Anna Corey Target entity description: Anna Corey is a character in William Dean Howells's realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing the old-money Boston aristocracy in contrast to the nouveau riche Lapham family.
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A.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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B.
Mary Corey
Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
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C.
Mary Clare
Mary Clare was a British stage and film actress known for her character roles in early 20th-century cinema and theatre.
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D.
Mary Anne Creed
Mary Anne Creed is a supporting character in the Rocky and Creed film series, known as the strong, caring widow of Apollo Creed and adoptive mother of Adonis Creed.
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E.
Elizabeth Kelly
Elizabeth Kelly was one of the sisters of American actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly, belonging to the prominent Kelly family of Philadelphia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rise of Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| contrastsWith |
Silas Lapham
ⓘ
Lapham family ⓘ
surface form:
the Lapham family
|
| createdBy | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInWork | 1885 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | realist novel ⓘ |
| hasFamilyNameInFiction | Corey ⓘ |
| hasFictionalEthnicity | Yankee ⓘ |
| isCharacterType |
aristocratic matron
ⓘ
guardian of social tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext |
Realism
ⓘ
surface form:
American realism
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| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | The Rise of Silas Lapham universe ⓘ |
| represents | old-money Boston aristocracy ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
foil to nouveau riche characters
ⓘ
symbol of traditional social elite ⓘ |
| setIn | 19th-century Boston ⓘ |
| socialClassInFiction |
old money
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upper class ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationalityContext |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
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: Anna Corey Description of subject: Anna Corey is a character in William Dean Howells's realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing the old-money Boston aristocracy in contrast to the nouveau riche Lapham family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.