Thomasin
E311682
Thomasin is the teenage Puritan girl at the center of the psychological horror film "The Witch," whose experiences drive the story’s exploration of religious paranoia and supernatural evil.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomasin canonical | 2 |
| Thomasin in The Witch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2934620 — 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: Thomasin Context triple: [Anya Taylor-Joy, playedCharacter, Thomasin]
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A.
Tamsin
Tamsin is a feminine given name of English origin, often associated with actresses and public figures such as Tamsin Egerton.
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B.
Tessa
Tessa is a feminine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Theresa or Therese.
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C.
Esme Valerie Fletcher
Esme Valerie Fletcher, better known as Valerie Eliot, was the second wife and literary executor of poet T. S. Eliot, playing a key role in editing and preserving his works and legacy.
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D.
Sophia Hitchens
Sophia Hitchens is the daughter of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
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E.
Alison
Alison is a feminine given name of English origin, commonly used in many English-speaking countries.
- 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: Thomasin Target entity description: Thomasin is the teenage Puritan girl at the center of the psychological horror film "The Witch," whose experiences drive the story’s exploration of religious paranoia and supernatural evil.
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A.
Tamsin
Tamsin is a feminine given name of English origin, often associated with actresses and public figures such as Tamsin Egerton.
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B.
Tessa
Tessa is a feminine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Theresa or Therese.
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C.
Esme Valerie Fletcher
Esme Valerie Fletcher, better known as Valerie Eliot, was the second wife and literary executor of poet T. S. Eliot, playing a key role in editing and preserving his works and legacy.
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D.
Sophia Hitchens
Sophia Hitchens is the daughter of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
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E.
Alison
Alison is a feminine given name of English origin, commonly used in many English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Witch ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
horror film
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period film ⓘ psychological horror film ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Black Phillip
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the witch in the woods ⓘ |
| centralThemeOf |
coming of age
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female agency ⓘ patriarchal oppression ⓘ religious paranoia ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ |
| characterAge | teenager ⓘ |
| characterEra | 17th-century New England ⓘ |
| createdBy | Robert Eggers ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
iconic modern horror heroine
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symbol of rebellion against oppressive piety ⓘ |
| experiences |
family breakdown
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religious terror ⓘ supernatural encounters ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole |
daughter
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sister ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | Puritan farm girl ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Katherine
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William ⓘ |
| hasReligion |
Puritanism
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surface form:
Puritan Christianity
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| hasSibling |
Caleb
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Jonas ⓘ Mercy ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
ambiguous moral figure
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drives plot ⓘ focus of suspicion ⓘ victim of religious hysteria ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Anya Taylor-Joy ⓘ |
| setting | isolated New England farm ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage |
Early Modern English
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surface form:
Early Modern English dialect
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| storyRole |
figure of temptation and liberation
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subject of accusations of witchcraft ⓘ |
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: Thomasin Description of subject: Thomasin is the teenage Puritan girl at the center of the psychological horror film "The Witch," whose experiences drive the story’s exploration of religious paranoia and supernatural evil.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Anya Taylor-Joy
this entity surface form:
Thomasin in The Witch