Ursula
E342311
Ursula is the iconic sea witch villain from Disney's animated film "The Little Mermaid," known for her dark magic, cunning bargains, and memorable musical number "Poor Unfortunate Souls."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ursula canonical | 14 |
| Ursula the Sea Witch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3241103 — 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: Ursula Context triple: [The Little Mermaid (1989 film), mainCharacter, Ursula]
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A.
Ursula
Ursula is a feminine given name of Latin origin, most famously borne by Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.
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B.
Ariel
Ariel is the adventurous, red-haired mermaid princess from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, known for her curiosity about the human world and iconic songs like “Part of Your World.”
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C.
Ariel
Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
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D.
Ariel
Ariel is one of Uranus's major icy moons, known for its relatively bright surface and complex system of canyons and fault valleys.
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E.
Ariel
Ariel is a posthumously published poetry collection by Sylvia Plath that is widely regarded as her most powerful and influential work.
- 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: Ursula Target entity description: Ursula is the iconic sea witch villain from Disney's animated film "The Little Mermaid," known for her dark magic, cunning bargains, and memorable musical number "Poor Unfortunate Souls."
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A.
Ursula
Ursula is a feminine given name of Latin origin, most famously borne by Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.
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B.
Ariel
Ariel is the adventurous, red-haired mermaid princess from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, known for her curiosity about the human world and iconic songs like “Part of Your World.”
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C.
Ariel
Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
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D.
Ariel
Ariel is a posthumously published poetry collection by Sylvia Plath that is widely regarded as her most powerful and influential work.
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E.
Ariel
Ariel is one of Uranus's major icy moons, known for its relatively bright surface and complex system of canyons and fault valleys.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Disney villain
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animated film character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ sea witch ⓘ |
| ability |
contract magic
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potion brewing ⓘ shape-shifting ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| ally |
Flotsam
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Jetsam ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Little Mermaid
ⓘ
The Little Mermaid ⓘ
surface form:
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
The Little Mermaid (2023 live-action film) ⓘ |
| basedOn | sea witch from The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen ⓘ |
| bodyType | octopus-like lower body ⓘ |
| category |
Disney Animated Canon characters
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Disney Princess franchise characters ⓘ Disney Villains ⓘ |
| creator | Walt Disney Animation Studios ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | iconic Disney villain ⓘ |
| enemy |
Ariel
ⓘ
King Triton ⓘ Prince Eric ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| fandom | Disney fandom ⓘ |
| franchise |
The Little Mermaid film series
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surface form:
The Little Mermaid franchise
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| goal |
rule the seas
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steal King Triton’s trident ⓘ |
| hairColor | white ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | animation ⓘ |
| method |
cunning bargains
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deceptive contracts ⓘ manipulation ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
charismatic
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cunning ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| notableWork | Poor Unfortunate Souls ⓘ |
| occupation | sea witch ⓘ |
| portrayedByVoice |
Pat Carroll
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Pat Carroll (original English voice) ⓘ |
| portrayedInLiveAction | Melissa McCarthy ⓘ |
| residence | undersea lair ⓘ |
| role | main antagonist ⓘ |
| setting | Atlantica ⓘ |
| songPerformed | Poor Unfortunate Souls ⓘ |
| species | cecaelia ⓘ |
| usesMagic | dark magic ⓘ |
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: Ursula Description of subject: Ursula is the iconic sea witch villain from Disney's animated film "The Little Mermaid," known for her dark magic, cunning bargains, and memorable musical number "Poor Unfortunate Souls."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
subject surface form:
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
subject surface form:
Ursula
this entity surface form:
Ursula the Sea Witch
subject surface form:
The Little Mermaid (2023 film)