Matilda
E61630
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matilda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T494825 — 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: Matilda Context triple: [The Castle of Otranto, mainCharacter, Matilda]
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A.
Malory Towers
Malory Towers is a classic British children's book series set in a girls' boarding school, written by Enid Blyton and known for its stories of friendship, school life, and personal growth.
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B.
Mill
Mill is a prominent surname most famously associated with John Stuart Mill, the influential 19th-century British philosopher and political economist.
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C.
The Witch of Portobello
The Witch of Portobello is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores spirituality, identity, and the nature of love through the fragmented testimonies of people who knew its enigmatic heroine, Athena.
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D.
Oliver
Oliver is the given name of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a prominent 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist.
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E.
The Wishing-Chair
The Wishing-Chair is a classic children's fantasy book by Enid Blyton about a magical flying chair that takes two siblings on a series of whimsical adventures.
- 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: Matilda Target entity description: Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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A.
Malory Towers
Malory Towers is a classic British children's book series set in a girls' boarding school, written by Enid Blyton and known for its stories of friendship, school life, and personal growth.
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B.
Mill
Mill is a prominent surname most famously associated with John Stuart Mill, the influential 19th-century British philosopher and political economist.
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C.
The Witch of Portobello
The Witch of Portobello is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores spirituality, identity, and the nature of love through the fragmented testimonies of people who knew its enigmatic heroine, Athena.
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D.
Oliver
Oliver is the given name of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a prominent 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist.
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E.
The Wishing-Chair
The Wishing-Chair is a classic children's fantasy book by Enid Blyton about a magical flying chair that takes two siblings on a series of whimsical adventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Castle of Otranto ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
filial duty
ⓘ
forbidden love ⓘ patriarchal tyranny ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
modesty
ⓘ
obedience ⓘ piety ⓘ self‑sacrifice ⓘ |
| createdBy | Horace Walpole ⓘ |
| deathCause | stabbed by Manfred ⓘ |
| diesIn | The Castle of Otranto ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Castle of Otranto
ⓘ
surface form:
The Castle of Otranto (1764)
|
| genre | Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Conrad ⓘ |
| hasUnrequitedLoveFor | Theodore ⓘ |
| isDaughterOf |
Hippolita
ⓘ
Manfred ⓘ |
| isMistakenFor | Isabella ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | victim of dynastic ambition ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Italian ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
tragic figure
ⓘ
virtuous heroine ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Otranto ⓘ |
| workTypeContext | pioneering Gothic novel ⓘ |
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: Matilda Description of subject: Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.