Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp
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Roberta Muldoon in *The World According to Garp* is a former professional football player who has transitioned and become a compassionate, supportive friend to the protagonist in both John Irving’s novel and its film adaptation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3585077 — 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: Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp Context triple: [John Lithgow, filmRole, Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp]
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A.
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman is the neurotic, overwhelmed housewife protagonist of the satirical 1970s American soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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B.
Ellen O'Hara
Ellen O'Hara is a devout, aristocratic Southern matriarch in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," known for her calm strength and moral influence over her family and plantation.
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C.
Maude Findlay
Maude Findlay is the outspoken, liberal, middle-aged feminist protagonist of the 1970s American sitcom "Maude," portrayed by Bea Arthur.
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D.
Mary Tyler Peabody
Mary Tyler Peabody was a 19th-century American educator and writer best known as the wife of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and a member of the prominent Peabody family of New England intellectuals.
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E.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
- 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: Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp Target entity description: Roberta Muldoon in *The World According to Garp* is a former professional football player who has transitioned and become a compassionate, supportive friend to the protagonist in both John Irving’s novel and its film adaptation.
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A.
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman is the neurotic, overwhelmed housewife protagonist of the satirical 1970s American soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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B.
Ellen O'Hara
Ellen O'Hara is a devout, aristocratic Southern matriarch in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," known for her calm strength and moral influence over her family and plantation.
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C.
Maude Findlay
Maude Findlay is the outspoken, liberal, middle-aged feminist protagonist of the 1970s American sitcom "Maude," portrayed by Bea Arthur.
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D.
Mary Tyler Peabody
Mary Tyler Peabody was a 19th-century American educator and writer best known as the wife of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and a member of the prominent Peabody family of New England intellectuals.
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E.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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supporting character ⓘ transgender woman ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The World According to Garp
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The World According to Garp ⓘ
surface form:
The World According to Garp (film)
The World According to Garp ⓘ
surface form:
The World According to Garp (novel)
|
| appearsInGenre |
drama film
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | John Irving ⓘ |
| assignedSexAtBirth | male ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
The World According to Garp
ⓘ
surface form:
The World According to Garp (novel)
|
| characterTrait |
compassionate
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physically strong ⓘ supportive ⓘ |
| creator | John Irving ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationOfCharacterFrom |
The World According to Garp
ⓘ
surface form:
The World According to Garp (novel)
|
| genderIdentity | woman ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | early positive transgender representation in mainstream fiction ⓘ |
| occupation |
bodyguard
ⓘ
former professional football player ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
friend of T. S. Garp
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protector of Jenny Fields ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| supportsCharacter |
Jenny Fields
ⓘ
John Gardner ⓘ
surface form:
T. S. Garp
|
| teamSportRole | professional player ⓘ |
| undergoes | gender transition ⓘ |
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: Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp Description of subject: Roberta Muldoon in *The World According to Garp* is a former professional football player who has transitioned and become a compassionate, supportive friend to the protagonist in both John Irving’s novel and its film adaptation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.