Lilac Fairy
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The Lilac Fairy is a benevolent and powerful fairy in Tchaikovsky’s ballet "The Sleeping Beauty," who protects Princess Aurora and ultimately guides her to a happy awakening.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lilac Fairy canonical | 4 |
| The Lilac Fairy | 2 |
| Princess Aurora | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2041448 — 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: Lilac Fairy Context triple: [The Sleeping Beauty, notableCharacter, Lilac Fairy]
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A.
Fairy Godmother
The Fairy Godmother is a benevolent magical figure in Disney's "Cinderella" who uses her powers to help Cinderella attend the royal ball and change her destiny.
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B.
Silky the Fairy
Silky the Fairy is a kind, gentle fairy who lives in the Magic Faraway Tree and helps guide the children through its many strange and magical lands.
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C.
The Evil Queen
The Evil Queen is the vain and power-hungry royal villain from Disney’s Snow White, infamous for her jealousy and use of dark magic to eliminate her rival.
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D.
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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E.
Sylvie
Sylvie is a feminine given name, often used as a French variant of Sylvia, associated with meanings related to the forest or woods.
- 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: Lilac Fairy Target entity description: The Lilac Fairy is a benevolent and powerful fairy in Tchaikovsky’s ballet "The Sleeping Beauty," who protects Princess Aurora and ultimately guides her to a happy awakening.
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A.
Fairy Godmother
The Fairy Godmother is a benevolent magical figure in Disney's "Cinderella" who uses her powers to help Cinderella attend the royal ball and change her destiny.
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B.
Silky the Fairy
Silky the Fairy is a kind, gentle fairy who lives in the Magic Faraway Tree and helps guide the children through its many strange and magical lands.
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C.
The Evil Queen
The Evil Queen is the vain and power-hungry royal villain from Disney’s Snow White, infamous for her jealousy and use of dark magic to eliminate her rival.
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D.
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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E.
Sylvie
Sylvie is a feminine given name, often used as a French variant of Sylvia, associated with meanings related to the forest or woods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet character
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fairy ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| alignment | benevolent ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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surface form:
Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| appearsInAct |
Act II
ⓘ
Act III ⓘ Prologue ⓘ |
| artForm | ballet ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Princess Aurora
ⓘ
good fairies ⓘ |
| basedOn | fairy-tale fairy archetype ⓘ |
| choreographyBy | Marius Petipa ⓘ |
| costumeColor | lilac ⓘ |
| creator | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ⓘ |
| danceType | classical variation ⓘ |
| ensuresOutcome | happy ending for Aurora ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceIn | 1890 ⓘ |
| firstPerformedAt | Mariinsky Theatre ⓘ |
| firstPerformedInCity |
St. Petersburg
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surface form:
Saint Petersburg
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| functionInPlot | drives resolution of the curse ⓘ |
| genre | classical ballet ⓘ |
| guides | Prince Désiré ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
calm authority
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kindness ⓘ moral strength ⓘ |
| hasPower |
counteracting curses
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protective magic ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Russian ballet tradition ⓘ |
| librettist | Ivan Vsevolozhsky ⓘ |
| modifies | Carabosse's curse ⓘ |
| musicBy | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | deus ex machina figure ⓘ |
| notableFor | lyrical and expressive choreography ⓘ |
| notableProp | wand ⓘ |
| notableScene |
final act awakening of Aurora
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prologue blessing of Aurora ⓘ |
| opposes | Carabosse ⓘ |
| protects |
Aurora's kingdom
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Princess Aurora ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
guides Aurora to a happy awakening
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protector of Princess Aurora ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
benevolent fate
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protection ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
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: Lilac Fairy Description of subject: The Lilac Fairy is a benevolent and powerful fairy in Tchaikovsky’s ballet "The Sleeping Beauty," who protects Princess Aurora and ultimately guides her to a happy awakening.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Sleeping Beauty
this entity surface form:
Princess Aurora
this entity surface form:
The Lilac Fairy
this entity surface form:
The Lilac Fairy