Lucinda Leplastrier
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Lucinda Leplastrier is a headstrong, unconventional Australian heiress and glassworks owner in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda," whose gambling habit and partnership with Oscar Hopkins drive the story’s central journey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lucinda Leplastrier canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T977135 — 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: Lucinda Leplastrier Context triple: [Oscar and Lucinda, mainCharacter, Lucinda Leplastrier]
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A.
Tahnee Welch
Tahnee Welch is an American actress and model best known for her role in the science-fiction film "Cocoon" and for being the daughter of actress Raquel Welch.
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B.
Maria Skerrett
Maria Skerrett was the second wife of British statesman Sir Robert Walpole, serving as his companion during his later years as de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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C.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
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D.
Claire Craig
Claire Craig is a British academic and former civil servant who serves as the Provost (head) of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.
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E.
Amanda Luxon
Amanda Luxon is the wife of New Zealand politician and business leader Christopher Luxon.
- 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: Lucinda Leplastrier Target entity description: Lucinda Leplastrier is a headstrong, unconventional Australian heiress and glassworks owner in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda," whose gambling habit and partnership with Oscar Hopkins drive the story’s central journey.
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A.
Tahnee Welch
Tahnee Welch is an American actress and model best known for her role in the science-fiction film "Cocoon" and for being the daughter of actress Raquel Welch.
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B.
Maria Skerrett
Maria Skerrett was the second wife of British statesman Sir Robert Walpole, serving as his companion during his later years as de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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C.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
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D.
Claire Craig
Claire Craig is a British academic and former civil servant who serves as the Provost (head) of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.
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E.
Amanda Luxon
Amanda Luxon is the wife of New Zealand politician and business leader Christopher Luxon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | film adaptation of Oscar and Lucinda ⓘ |
| appearsIn | novel Oscar and Lucinda ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Peter Carey ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Anglican community through Oscar Hopkins
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glass church project ⓘ |
| businessOwnership |
glass factory
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glassworks ⓘ |
| centralRelationshipWith | Oscar Hopkins ⓘ |
| characterArcInvolves |
moral questions about gambling and faith
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negotiating independence and social expectations ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| creator | Peter Carey ⓘ |
| engagesIn |
card games
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wagering ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Oscar and Lucinda (film)
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surface form:
Oscar and Lucinda
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| firstPublicationContext |
Oscar and Lucinda (film)
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surface form:
Oscar and Lucinda (1988 novel)
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasHabit | gambling ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
headstrong
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independent ⓘ rebellious ⓘ unconventional ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenreOfWork |
historical fiction
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postmodern novel ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives central journey of the story ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| occupation |
glassworks owner
ⓘ
heiress ⓘ |
| partnerInGambling | Oscar Hopkins ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | Cate Blanchett ⓘ |
| setting | 19th-century Australia ⓘ |
| socialStatus | heiress ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
colonial Australia
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faith and chance ⓘ gambling ⓘ risk ⓘ |
| wealthSource | inheritance ⓘ |
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: Lucinda Leplastrier Description of subject: Lucinda Leplastrier is a headstrong, unconventional Australian heiress and glassworks owner in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda," whose gambling habit and partnership with Oscar Hopkins drive the story’s central journey.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Oscar and Lucinda