Mrs. Otis
E675455
Mrs. Otis is a practical, no-nonsense American woman in Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost,” known for her modern, skeptical attitude toward the supernatural.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Otis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7596117 — 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: Mrs. Otis Context triple: [The Canterville Ghost, mainCharacter, Mrs. Otis]
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A.
Shirley Hufstedler
Shirley Hufstedler was an American lawyer, judge, and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Education after serving as a federal appellate judge.
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B.
Mrs. Bartlett
Mrs. Bartlett is a supporting character in the silent film "Way Down East," contributing to the drama’s depiction of rural New England life and its social tensions.
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C.
Olive Chancellor
Olive Chancellor is a passionate, reform-minded Boston feminist and social reformer who serves as the central figure in Henry James’s novel *The Bostonians*.
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D.
Beverly Archer
Beverly Archer is an American television actress best known for her comedic roles in series such as "Mama’s Family" and "Major Dad."
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- 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: Mrs. Otis Target entity description: Mrs. Otis is a practical, no-nonsense American woman in Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost,” known for her modern, skeptical attitude toward the supernatural.
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A.
Shirley Hufstedler
Shirley Hufstedler was an American lawyer, judge, and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Education after serving as a federal appellate judge.
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B.
Mrs. Bartlett
Mrs. Bartlett is a supporting character in the silent film "Way Down East," contributing to the drama’s depiction of rural New England life and its social tensions.
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C.
Olive Chancellor
Olive Chancellor is a passionate, reform-minded Boston feminist and social reformer who serves as the central figure in Henry James’s novel *The Bostonians*.
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D.
Beverly Archer
Beverly Archer is an American television actress best known for her comedic roles in series such as "Mama’s Family" and "Major Dad."
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American woman
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female character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | short story ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
clash between American and British culture
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rationalism versus superstition ⓘ |
| attitudeTowardSupernatural |
rational
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skeptical ⓘ |
| authorNationalityOfWork | Irish ⓘ |
| characterInWork | The Canterville Ghost NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
modern
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no-nonsense ⓘ practical ⓘ skeptical ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Sir Simon de Canterville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdBy | Oscar Wilde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRole |
mother
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wife ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Canterville Ghost universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Canterville Ghost NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comic ghost story ⓘ |
| hasChild |
The Otis twins
NERFINISHED
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Virginia Otis NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Otis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Mr. Hiram B. Otis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| memberOfFamily | Otis family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movesFrom | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movesTo | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| offersProductToGhost | Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 1887 ⓘ |
| reactionToBloodstain | treatsAsCleaningProblem ⓘ |
| residesIn | Canterville Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
American practicality
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modern materialism ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Otis Description of subject: Mrs. Otis is a practical, no-nonsense American woman in Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost,” known for her modern, skeptical attitude toward the supernatural.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.