Mildred Peacock
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Mildred Peacock is the resilient African American mother and protagonist of Terry McMillan’s novel "Mama," who struggles to raise her children and find independence amid poverty and hardship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mildred Peacock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6351657 — 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: Mildred Peacock Context triple: [Mama, mainCharacter, Mildred Peacock]
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A.
Mildred
Mildred is a feminine given name of English origin that became especially popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Irene Redfield
Irene Redfield is the conflicted, upper-middle-class Black woman at the center of Nella Larsen’s novel "Passing," whose controlled life is unsettled by the reappearance of her racially passing childhood friend.
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C.
Myrtle Wilson
Myrtle Wilson is a tragic, ambitious woman from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby* whose affair with Tom Buchanan and fatal end highlight the era’s class divisions and moral decay.
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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.
Ruth Hopkins
Ruth Hopkins was a member of the prominent Hopkins family of early colonial New England, known primarily through her relationship to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins.
- 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: Mildred Peacock Target entity description: Mildred Peacock is the resilient African American mother and protagonist of Terry McMillan’s novel "Mama," who struggles to raise her children and find independence amid poverty and hardship.
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A.
Mildred
Mildred is a feminine given name of English origin that became especially popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Irene Redfield
Irene Redfield is the conflicted, upper-middle-class Black woman at the center of Nella Larsen’s novel "Passing," whose controlled life is unsettled by the reappearance of her racially passing childhood friend.
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C.
Myrtle Wilson
Myrtle Wilson is a tragic, ambitious woman from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby* whose affair with Tom Buchanan and fatal end highlight the era’s class divisions and moral decay.
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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.
Ruth Hopkins
Ruth Hopkins was a member of the prominent Hopkins family of early colonial New England, known primarily through her relationship to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Mama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeInvolvement |
economic struggle
ⓘ
family survival ⓘ female empowerment ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Terry McMillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| experiences |
hardship
ⓘ
poverty ⓘ |
| faces |
racism
ⓘ
sexism ⓘ welfare bureaucracy ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre | contemporary African American literature ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1987 ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Angel Peacock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crickett Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ Dinah Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralphine Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole | single mother ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasMaritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | low-wage worker ⓘ |
| hasRole | mother ⓘ |
| hasSocioeconomicStatus | working class ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Crook ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
determined
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independent ⓘ protective ⓘ resilient ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
motherhood under economic stress
ⓘ
struggle for autonomy ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Mama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents |
African American working-class motherhood
ⓘ
female resilience ⓘ |
| seeks |
a better life for her children
ⓘ
independence ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
financial instability
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raising children alone ⓘ |
| undergoesCharacterArc | from dependence to greater self-reliance ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Mildred Peacock Description of subject: Mildred Peacock is the resilient African American mother and protagonist of Terry McMillan’s novel "Mama," who struggles to raise her children and find independence amid poverty and hardship.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.