Ardelia Mapp
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Ardelia Mapp is a supporting character in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series, best known as Clarice Starling’s close friend and fellow trainee at the FBI Academy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ardelia Mapp canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6044207 — 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: Ardelia Mapp Context triple: [The Silence of the Lambs (novel), character, Ardelia Mapp]
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A.
Leafy Crawford
Leafy Crawford is a character in Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," known as the troubled and largely absent mother of the protagonist Janie Crawford.
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B.
Louise Poindexter
Louise Poindexter is a central female character in Mayne Reid’s 19th-century frontier novel "The Headless Horseman," depicted as a young Southern belle entangled in romance and mystery on the Texas frontier.
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C.
Mattie Jackson
Mattie Jackson is the daughter of American country music singer Alan Jackson and an author known for her memoir and work in faith-based and charitable initiatives.
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D.
Mabel Jones
Mabel Jones is the daughter of the fictional diarist and protagonist Bridget Jones from Helen Fielding’s popular "Bridget Jones" series.
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E.
Thelma Harper
Thelma Harper is the sharp-tongued, no-nonsense matriarch at the center of the sitcom "Mama’s Family," known for her quick wit, temper, and old-fashioned values.
- 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: Ardelia Mapp Target entity description: Ardelia Mapp is a supporting character in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series, best known as Clarice Starling’s close friend and fellow trainee at the FBI Academy.
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A.
Leafy Crawford
Leafy Crawford is a character in Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," known as the troubled and largely absent mother of the protagonist Janie Crawford.
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B.
Louise Poindexter
Louise Poindexter is a central female character in Mayne Reid’s 19th-century frontier novel "The Headless Horseman," depicted as a young Southern belle entangled in romance and mystery on the Texas frontier.
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C.
Mattie Jackson
Mattie Jackson is the daughter of American country music singer Alan Jackson and an author known for her memoir and work in faith-based and charitable initiatives.
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D.
Mabel Jones
Mabel Jones is the daughter of the fictional diarist and protagonist Bridget Jones from Helen Fielding’s popular "Bridget Jones" series.
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E.
Thelma Harper
Thelma Harper is the sharp-tongued, no-nonsense matriarch at the center of the sitcom "Mama’s Family," known for her quick wit, temper, and old-fashioned values.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hannibal Lecter series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Silence of the Lambs NERFINISHED ⓘ The Silence of the Lambs (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Silence of the Lambs (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeFriendOf | Clarice Starling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colleagueOf | Clarice Starling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Thomas Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | FBI Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseOriginWork | The Silence of the Lambs (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmCharacterIn | The Silence of the Lambs (1991 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Mapp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Ardelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation |
FBI agent
ⓘ
FBI trainee ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Hannibal Lecter universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kasi Lemmons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ardelia Mapp Description of subject: Ardelia Mapp is a supporting character in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series, best known as Clarice Starling’s close friend and fellow trainee at the FBI Academy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.