Mrs Lintott
E291180
Mrs Lintott is a sharp-witted, pragmatic history teacher from Alan Bennett’s play (and film) "The History Boys," known for her dry humor and feminist perspective.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs Lintott canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2689348 — 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 Lintott Context triple: [Frances de la Tour, portrayedCharacter, Mrs Lintott]
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A.
Gillian Siddall
Gillian Siddall is a Canadian academic and university administrator who serves as president of Lakehead University.
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B.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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C.
Louise Richardson
Louise Richardson is an Irish political scientist and academic leader known for her scholarship on terrorism and for serving as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford and principal of the University of St Andrews.
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D.
Sandra Lovelock
Sandra Lovelock is known as the wife of British scientist James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis.
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E.
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall is a pioneering British computer scientist and professor known for her influential work in hypermedia, the World Wide Web, and web science.
- 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 Lintott Target entity description: Mrs Lintott is a sharp-witted, pragmatic history teacher from Alan Bennett’s play (and film) "The History Boys," known for her dry humor and feminist perspective.
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A.
Gillian Siddall
Gillian Siddall is a Canadian academic and university administrator who serves as president of Lakehead University.
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B.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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C.
Louise Richardson
Louise Richardson is an Irish political scientist and academic leader known for her scholarship on terrorism and for serving as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford and principal of the University of St Andrews.
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D.
Sandra Lovelock
Sandra Lovelock is known as the wife of British scientist James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis.
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E.
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall is a pioneering British computer scientist and professor known for her influential work in hypermedia, the World Wide Web, and web science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ school teacher ⓘ stage character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The History Boys
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The History Boys (film) ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
education and class in Britain
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gender and historiography ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
dry sense of humor
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feminist perspective ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ sharp-witted ⓘ |
| creator | Alan Bennett ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
provides critical perspective on other teachers
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voices concerns about how history is taught ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deadpan humor
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feminist critique of historical narratives ⓘ wry commentary on male-dominated education ⓘ |
| occupation | history teacher ⓘ |
| partOf | ensemble cast of The History Boys ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
colleague of Hector
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colleague of Irwin ⓘ history teacher at a boys’ grammar school ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | English secondary school ⓘ |
| teachesSubject | history ⓘ |
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 Lintott Description of subject: Mrs Lintott is a sharp-witted, pragmatic history teacher from Alan Bennett’s play (and film) "The History Boys," known for her dry humor and feminist perspective.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.