Widow Douglas
E38006
Widow Douglas is a kind but strict guardian in Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" who attempts to civilize Huck according to her religious and social values.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Widow Douglas canonical | 4 |
| Widow Douglas's house | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295713 — 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: Widow Douglas Context triple: [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, hasCharacter, Widow Douglas]
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A.
Harriet
Harriet is the given name of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century American author best known for writing the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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B.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Aunt Polly
Aunt Polly is Tom Sawyer’s strict but loving aunt and guardian in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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D.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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E.
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is a mischievous and imaginative boy from Mark Twain’s classic American novels, known for his adventurous exploits along the Mississippi River.
- 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: Widow Douglas Target entity description: Widow Douglas is a kind but strict guardian in Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" who attempts to civilize Huck according to her religious and social values.
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A.
Harriet
Harriet is the given name of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century American author best known for writing the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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B.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Aunt Polly
Aunt Polly is Tom Sawyer’s strict but loving aunt and guardian in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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D.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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E.
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is a mischievous and imaginative boy from Mark Twain’s classic American novels, known for his adventurous exploits along the Mississippi River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Miss Watson ⓘ |
| benefactorOf | Huckleberry Finn ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charitable
ⓘ
kind ⓘ pious ⓘ respectable ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| creator | Mark Twain ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Huckleberry Finn ⓘ |
| literaryRole |
moral influence on Huckleberry Finn
ⓘ
symbol of conventional society and religion ⓘ |
| livesWith | Miss Watson ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAct | rescued by Huckleberry Finn from Injun Joe ⓘ |
| occupation | guardian ⓘ |
| relationshipToMissWatson | sister ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | St. Petersburg, Missouri ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | pre–American Civil War era ⓘ |
| socialClass | middle class ⓘ |
| teaches |
religion to Huckleberry Finn
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social manners to Huckleberry Finn ⓘ |
| triesTo | civilize Huckleberry Finn ⓘ |
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: Widow Douglas Description of subject: Widow Douglas is a kind but strict guardian in Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" who attempts to civilize Huck according to her religious and social values.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
St. Petersburg, Missouri
this entity surface form:
Widow Douglas's house