Ophelia St. Clare
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Ophelia St. Clare is a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as a morally conflicted but ultimately compassionate Southern woman who gradually confronts her own prejudices about slavery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ophelia St. Clare canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2204584 — 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: Ophelia St. Clare Context triple: [Topsy, adoptedBy, Ophelia St. Clare]
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A.
Marie St. Clare
Marie St. Clare is a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as the self-absorbed and emotionally distant wife in the St. Clare household.
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B.
Augustine St. Clare
Augustine St. Clare is a wealthy, conflicted New Orleans slave owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," whose moral ambivalence and eventual change of heart highlight the cruelties of slavery.
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C.
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.
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D.
Miss Watson
Miss Watson is a strict, religious woman who serves as Huck Finn’s guardian and represents conventional society’s moral values in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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E.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
- 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: Ophelia St. Clare Target entity description: Ophelia St. Clare is a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as a morally conflicted but ultimately compassionate Southern woman who gradually confronts her own prejudices about slavery.
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A.
Marie St. Clare
Marie St. Clare is a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as the self-absorbed and emotionally distant wife in the St. Clare household.
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B.
Augustine St. Clare
Augustine St. Clare is a wealthy, conflicted New Orleans slave owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," whose moral ambivalence and eventual change of heart highlight the cruelties of slavery.
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C.
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.
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D.
Miss Watson
Miss Watson is a strict, religious woman who serves as Huck Finn’s guardian and represents conventional society’s moral values in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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E.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
ⓘ
surface form:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
|
| associatedWith | St. Clare family ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | New England ⓘ |
| auntOf | Augustine St. Clare ⓘ |
| caresFor | St. Clare household ⓘ |
| characterArc | moves from prejudice to greater empathy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
conscientious ⓘ initially prejudiced ⓘ moralistic ⓘ orderly ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| creator | Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ |
| familyName |
Marie St. Clare
ⓘ
surface form:
St. Clare
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
ⓘ
surface form:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
|
| firstAppearance |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
ⓘ
surface form:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ophelia ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Topsy ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Eva St. Clare’s Christian love ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction | embodies Northern attitudes toward slavery ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| moralConflict | complicity in slaveholding household ⓘ |
| moralPosition | opposes slavery in principle ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | household manager ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Vermont ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
Augustine St. Clare
ⓘ
Eva St. Clare ⓘ Topsy ⓘ |
| relative | Augustine St. Clare ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| setIn | New Orleans ⓘ |
| symbolizes | Northern moralism confronted with slavery ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
Christian morality
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moral awakening ⓘ racial prejudice ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| undergoes | moral development ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1852 ⓘ |
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: Ophelia St. Clare Description of subject: Ophelia St. Clare is a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as a morally conflicted but ultimately compassionate Southern woman who gradually confronts her own prejudices about slavery.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.