Mrs. Walker
E265492
Mrs. Walker is a socially conservative American expatriate in Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller," serving as a foil to Daisy by embodying rigid Old World manners and moral judgments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Walker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2417971 — 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: Mrs. Walker Context triple: [Daisy Miller, mainCharacter, Mrs. Walker]
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A.
Mrs. Newsome
Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
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B.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Miss Agnes Walke
Miss Agnes Walke was the woman who sponsored and ceremonially christened the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Walke (DD-416).
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D.
Arline Wilkins
Arline Wilkins was the first wife of American singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers, married to him before his rise to major Hollywood fame.
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- 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: Mrs. Walker Target entity description: Mrs. Walker is a socially conservative American expatriate in Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller," serving as a foil to Daisy by embodying rigid Old World manners and moral judgments.
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A.
Mrs. Newsome
Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
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B.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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C.
Miss Agnes Walke
Miss Agnes Walke was the woman who sponsored and ceremonially christened the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Walke (DD-416).
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D.
Arline Wilkins
Arline Wilkins was the first wife of American singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers, married to him before his rise to major Hollywood fame.
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American expatriate
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ social conservative ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Daisy Miller
ⓘ
Daisy Miller ⓘ
surface form:
Daisy Miller: A Study
|
| associatedWith | expatriate American community in Europe ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
conventional
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judgmental ⓘ moralistic ⓘ rigid ⓘ socially conservative ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Daisy Miller ⓘ |
| createdBy | Henry James ⓘ |
| disapprovesOf | Daisy Miller's behavior ⓘ |
| embodies |
Old World moral judgments
ⓘ
Old World social codes ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | novella ⓘ |
| judges | Daisy Miller ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| residence |
Europe
ⓘ
Geneva ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
foil to Daisy Miller
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guardian of social propriety ⓘ representative of Old World manners ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
rigid respectability
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social conformity ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1878 ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Walker Description of subject: Mrs. Walker is a socially conservative American expatriate in Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller," serving as a foil to Daisy by embodying rigid Old World manners and moral judgments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.