Myrtle Wilson
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Myrtle Wilson canonical | 12 |
| Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby (1974 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549584 — 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: Myrtle Wilson Context triple: [The Great Gatsby, mainCharacter, Myrtle Wilson]
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A.
Laurey Williams
Laurey Williams is the spirited young farm girl who serves as the romantic heroine in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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B.
Doris
Doris is an Oceanid from Greek mythology, known as the wife of the sea god Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
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C.
Alice Wright Mann
Alice Wright Mann was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) at its launching.
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D.
Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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E.
Mary Jane Gumm
Mary Jane Gumm was an American vaudeville and film performer, best known as one of Judy Garland’s older sisters and early singing partners in the Gumm Sisters act.
- 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: Myrtle Wilson Target entity description: 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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A.
Laurey Williams
Laurey Williams is the spirited young farm girl who serves as the romantic heroine in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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B.
Doris
Doris is an Oceanid from Greek mythology, known as the wife of the sea god Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
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C.
Alice Wright Mann
Alice Wright Mann was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) at its launching.
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D.
Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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E.
Mary Jane Gumm
Mary Jane Gumm was an American vaudeville and film performer, best known as one of Judy Garland’s older sisters and early singing partners in the Gumm Sisters act.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Myrtle Wilson Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby (1974 film)