Tea Cake
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Tea Cake is a charming, free-spirited gambler and laborer who becomes Janie Crawford’s great love and transformative partner in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tea Cake canonical | 6 |
| Vergible "Tea Cake" Woods | 2 |
| Vergible "Tea Cake" Woods (in self-defense) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545305 — 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: Tea Cake Context triple: [Their Eyes Were Watching God, mainCharacter, Tea Cake]
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A.
Rodolfo
Rodolfo is the original Italian given name of Rudolph Valentino, the iconic silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s.
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B.
Raymond
Raymond is a surname most notably associated with Eric S. Raymond, an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
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C.
Raymond
Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
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D.
Perico
Perico is a minor character in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea," known as a young boy who helps the old fisherman Santiago by providing him with newspapers and showing him quiet support.
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E.
Damita Jo
Damita Jo is Janet Jackson’s 2004 R&B and pop studio album known for its sensual themes and fusion of dance, soul, and hip-hop influences.
- 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: Tea Cake Target entity description: Tea Cake is a charming, free-spirited gambler and laborer who becomes Janie Crawford’s great love and transformative partner in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
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A.
Rodolfo
Rodolfo is the original Italian given name of Rudolph Valentino, the iconic silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s.
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B.
Raymond
Raymond is a surname most notably associated with Eric S. Raymond, an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
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C.
Raymond
Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
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D.
Perico
Perico is a minor character in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea," known as a young boy who helps the old fisherman Santiago by providing him with newspapers and showing him quiet support.
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E.
Damita Jo
Damita Jo is Janet Jackson’s 2004 R&B and pop studio album known for its sensual themes and fusion of dance, soul, and hip-hop influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| adaptationAppearance |
Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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surface form:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005 film adaptation)
|
| appearsIn | Their Eyes Were Watching God ⓘ |
| authorEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| authorMovement | Harlem Renaissance ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| causeOfDeathInStory | rabies ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
adventurous
ⓘ
charismatic ⓘ charming ⓘ free-spirited ⓘ playful ⓘ |
| creator | Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ |
| deathInStory | dies after contracting rabies ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Their Eyes Were Watching God ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Their Eyes Were Watching God ⓘ |
| fullName | Vergible Woods ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Vergible ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Janie Crawford
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surface form:
Janie Crawford (in self-defense)
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | iconic figure of Black Southern masculinity in American literature ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Janie Crawford ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
Janie Crawford’s great love
ⓘ
catalyst for Janie’s self-discovery ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Tea Cake self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
experiences the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane
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marries Janie Crawford ⓘ teaches Janie to play checkers ⓘ works in the muck in the Everglades ⓘ |
| occupation |
gambler
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laborer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Ealy ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithJanieCrawford |
romantic partner
ⓘ
transformative partner ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
Eatonville, Florida, United States
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surface form:
Eatonville, Florida
Everglades ⓘ
surface form:
Everglades, Florida
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| spouse | Janie Crawford ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
gender roles
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love and freedom ⓘ race and class in the American South ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalExistence | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
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: Tea Cake Description of subject: Tea Cake is a charming, free-spirited gambler and laborer who becomes Janie Crawford’s great love and transformative partner in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vergible "Tea Cake" Woods
this entity surface form:
Vergible "Tea Cake" Woods
this entity surface form:
Vergible "Tea Cake" Woods (in self-defense)
subject surface form:
Vergible Woods