Mr. Shimerda
E440473
Mr. Shimerda is a sensitive, homesick Bohemian immigrant farmer in Willa Cather’s *My Ántonia* whose tragic fate profoundly shapes the lives and memories of the novel’s protagonists.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marek Shimerda | 1 |
| Mr. Shimerda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423406 — 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: Mr. Shimerda Context triple: [My Ántonia, character, Mr. Shimerda]
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A.
Antonia
Antonia is a feminine given name used in various languages, derived from the Roman family name Antonius.
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B.
Antonia the Younger
Antonia the Younger was a prominent Roman noblewoman of the early Imperial period, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, and mother of Emperor Claudius and General Germanicus.
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C.
Grampa Joad
Grampa Joad is the cantankerous, hard-drinking patriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
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D.
Ma Joad
Ma Joad is the resilient, compassionate matriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," symbolizing strength and unity amid hardship during the Great Depression.
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E.
Granma Joad
Granma Joad is the sharp-tongued, deeply religious matriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
- 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: Mr. Shimerda Target entity description: Mr. Shimerda is a sensitive, homesick Bohemian immigrant farmer in Willa Cather’s *My Ántonia* whose tragic fate profoundly shapes the lives and memories of the novel’s protagonists.
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A.
Antonia
Antonia is a feminine given name used in various languages, derived from the Roman family name Antonius.
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B.
Antonia the Younger
Antonia the Younger was a prominent Roman noblewoman of the early Imperial period, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, and mother of Emperor Claudius and General Germanicus.
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C.
Grampa Joad
Grampa Joad is the cantankerous, hard-drinking patriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
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D.
Ma Joad
Ma Joad is the resilient, compassionate matriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," symbolizing strength and unity amid hardship during the Great Depression.
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E.
Granma Joad
Granma Joad is the sharp-tongued, deeply religious matriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bohemian immigrant
ⓘ
farmer ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | My Ántonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInPart | Book I of My Ántonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
immigration
ⓘ
memory ⓘ the American frontier ⓘ |
| burialPlace | roadside grave on the prairie ⓘ |
| createdBy | Willa Cather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathHasImpactOn |
Jim Burden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ántonia Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Shimerda farm in Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diesBy | suicide ⓘ |
| emigratesFrom | Bohemia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emigratesTo | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Czech NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | My Ántonia (1918 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | musician ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Ambrosch Shimerda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marek Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ Yulka Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ Ántonia Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDaughter | Ántonia Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSon | Ambrosch Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWife | Mrs. Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isDescribedAs |
homesick
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ sensitive ⓘ |
| isFatherFigureTo | Ántonia Shimerda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFriendOf | Jim Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Czech ⓘ |
| livesNear | Burden family farm ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Jim Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Bohemian ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| playsInstrument | violin ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| residence |
Bohemia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nebraska prairie ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | late 19th century American frontier ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
cultural displacement
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isolation ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
immigrant suffering
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spiritual displacement ⓘ the cost of migration ⓘ |
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: Mr. Shimerda Description of subject: Mr. Shimerda is a sensitive, homesick Bohemian immigrant farmer in Willa Cather’s *My Ántonia* whose tragic fate profoundly shapes the lives and memories of the novel’s protagonists.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marek Shimerda