Irie Jones
E631810
Irie Jones is a central character in Zadie Smith’s novel "White Teeth," a British-Jamaican teenager navigating questions of identity, family, and belonging in multicultural London.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irie Jones canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6920705 — 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: Irie Jones Context triple: [White Teeth, character, Irie Jones]
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A.
Jaleesa Vinson
Jaleesa Vinson is a mature, independent college student and later career woman on the sitcom "A Different World," known for her no-nonsense attitude and role as a supportive friend and mentor.
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B.
Brionna Jones
Brionna Jones is an American professional basketball player and WNBA All-Star known for her strong post play and efficiency as a center.
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C.
Angelique Bates
Angelique Bates is an American actress and comedian best known as an original cast member of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series "All That."
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D.
Kidada Jones
Kidada Jones is an American actress, model, and fashion designer known for her styling work with major brands and celebrities, as well as for being the daughter of music producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton.
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E.
Shanté Smith
Shanté Smith is the savvy, self-assured protagonist of the romantic comedy film "Two Can Play That Game," known for her strategic approach to relationships and dating.
- 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: Irie Jones Target entity description: Irie Jones is a central character in Zadie Smith’s novel "White Teeth," a British-Jamaican teenager navigating questions of identity, family, and belonging in multicultural London.
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A.
Jaleesa Vinson
Jaleesa Vinson is a mature, independent college student and later career woman on the sitcom "A Different World," known for her no-nonsense attitude and role as a supportive friend and mentor.
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B.
Brionna Jones
Brionna Jones is an American professional basketball player and WNBA All-Star known for her strong post play and efficiency as a center.
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C.
Angelique Bates
Angelique Bates is an American actress and comedian best known as an original cast member of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series "All That."
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D.
Kidada Jones
Kidada Jones is an American actress, model, and fashion designer known for her styling work with major brands and celebrities, as well as for being the daughter of music producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton.
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E.
Shanté Smith
Shanté Smith is the savvy, self-assured protagonist of the romantic comedy film "Two Can Play That Game," known for her strategic approach to relationships and dating.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | White Teeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
contemporary fiction
ⓘ
postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommunity | British Jamaican community ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily |
Bowden family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jones family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Zadie Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
belonging
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body image ⓘ class ⓘ family ⓘ identity ⓘ multiculturalism ⓘ race ⓘ self-acceptance ⓘ |
| featuredIn | British multicultural literature ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | novel White Teeth ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Irie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAuthorEthnicity | Jamaican-British ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasCulturalBackground | British-Jamaican ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity |
British
ⓘ
Jamaican ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFather | Archie Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Joshua Chalfen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Magid Iqbal NERFINISHED ⓘ Millat Iqbal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMother | Clara Bowden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Archie Jones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clara Bowden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCentralCharacterOf | White Teeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| livesIn |
London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
multicultural London ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | coming-of-age focal character ⓘ |
| setInWorkCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInWorkLocation | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
cultural hybridity
ⓘ
family expectations ⓘ mixed-race identity ⓘ |
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: Irie Jones Description of subject: Irie Jones is a central character in Zadie Smith’s novel "White Teeth," a British-Jamaican teenager navigating questions of identity, family, and belonging in multicultural London.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.