Hedda
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Hedda is a feminine given name, commonly used as a variant of names like Hedvig in Germanic and Scandinavian cultures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hedda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7940977 — 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: Hedda Context triple: [Hedvig, hasVariant, Hedda]
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A.
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is an 1890 play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, renowned as a classic of realist theatre and a complex psychological portrait of its manipulative, conflicted heroine.
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B.
A Doll’s House
A Doll’s House is a landmark 1879 play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen that critiques 19th-century marriage norms and gender roles through the story of Nora Helmer’s awakening and decision to leave her family.
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C.
Miss Julie
Miss Julie is a naturalistic tragedy by Swedish playwright August Strindberg that explores class conflict, gender power dynamics, and psychological struggle through the doomed relationship between an aristocratic woman and her servant.
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D.
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck is a tragicomedy play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen that explores family secrets, self-deception, and the destructive pursuit of idealism.
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E.
Desire Under the Elms
Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 tragedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that reimagines Greek myth in a New England farm setting, exploring themes of greed, desire, and family conflict.
- 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: Hedda Target entity description: Hedda is a feminine given name, commonly used as a variant of names like Hedvig in Germanic and Scandinavian cultures.
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A.
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is an 1890 play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, renowned as a classic of realist theatre and a complex psychological portrait of its manipulative, conflicted heroine.
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B.
A Doll’s House
A Doll’s House is a landmark 1879 play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen that critiques 19th-century marriage norms and gender roles through the story of Nora Helmer’s awakening and decision to leave her family.
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C.
Miss Julie
Miss Julie is a naturalistic tragedy by Swedish playwright August Strindberg that explores class conflict, gender power dynamics, and psychological struggle through the doomed relationship between an aristocratic woman and her servant.
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D.
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck is a tragicomedy play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen that explores family secrets, self-deception, and the destructive pursuit of idealism.
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E.
Desire Under the Elms
Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 tragedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that reimagines Greek myth in a New England farm setting, exploring themes of greed, desire, and family conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
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given name ⓘ |
| derivesFrom | Hedvig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasUsageIn |
Germanic cultures
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Scandinavian cultures ⓘ |
| hasVariantOf | Hedvig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
Danish
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German ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Swedish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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surface form:
Latin script
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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: Hedda Description of subject: Hedda is a feminine given name, commonly used as a variant of names like Hedvig in Germanic and Scandinavian cultures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.