Tilo
E228755
Tilo is a central, enigmatic figure in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," whose complex personal history and relationships anchor much of the book’s emotional and political narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tilo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2054883 — 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: Tilo Context triple: [The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, mainCharacter, Tilo]
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A.
Tuineje
Tuineje is a coastal municipality on the island of Fuerteventura in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its rural landscapes, beaches, and traditional Canarian culture.
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B.
Tholen
Tholen is a municipality and town in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located in the southwest of the Netherlands and known for its dikes, polders, and historic center.
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C.
Tullinge
Tullinge is a suburban locality in the Stockholm region of Sweden, known for its residential areas, natural surroundings, and commuter connections to central Stockholm.
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D.
Tura
Tura is a prominent town in the Indian state of Meghalaya, serving as a major administrative, cultural, and economic center in the Garo Hills region.
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E.
Taalunie
Taalunie is an international institution that coordinates and promotes the Dutch language and literature across Dutch-speaking regions.
- 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: Tilo Target entity description: Tilo is a central, enigmatic figure in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," whose complex personal history and relationships anchor much of the book’s emotional and political narrative.
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A.
Tuineje
Tuineje is a coastal municipality on the island of Fuerteventura in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its rural landscapes, beaches, and traditional Canarian culture.
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B.
Tholen
Tholen is a municipality and town in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located in the southwest of the Netherlands and known for its dikes, polders, and historic center.
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C.
Tullinge
Tullinge is a suburban locality in the Stockholm region of Sweden, known for its residential areas, natural surroundings, and commuter connections to central Stockholm.
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D.
Tura
Tura is a prominent town in the Indian state of Meghalaya, serving as a major administrative, cultural, and economic center in the Garo Hills region.
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E.
Taalunie
Taalunie is an international institution that coordinates and promotes the Dutch language and literature across Dutch-speaking regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | political fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
contemporary India
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emotional trauma ⓘ identity ⓘ personal history ⓘ politics ⓘ relationships ⓘ social injustice ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
complex
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enigmatic ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | India ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arundhati Roy ⓘ |
| hasPersonalHistory | complex personal history ⓘ |
| hasRelationships | complex relationships ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
anchor of emotional narrative
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anchor of political narrative ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 2017 ⓘ |
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: Tilo Description of subject: Tilo is a central, enigmatic figure in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," whose complex personal history and relationships anchor much of the book’s emotional and political narrative.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.