Mary Katherine Blackwood
E725664
Mary Katherine Blackwood is the reclusive, unsettlingly cheerful and possibly unreliable young narrator of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," known for her morbid obsessions and deep mistrust of the outside world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Katherine Blackwood canonical | 2 |
| Merricat Blackwood | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316705 — 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: Mary Katherine Blackwood Context triple: [We Have Always Lived in the Castle, mainCharacter, Mary Katherine Blackwood]
-
A.
Katherine Thorn
Katherine Thorn is a central character in the 1976 horror film "The Omen," portrayed as the adoptive mother of the sinister child Damien.
-
B.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
-
C.
Mary Desha
Mary Desha was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the four co-founders of the patriotic lineage organization Daughters of the American Revolution.
-
D.
Caroline Blackwood
Caroline Blackwood was a British writer and heiress known for her darkly comic novels and memoirs, as well as her connections to the Bloomsbury and literary circles of the mid-20th century.
-
E.
Katherine Schofield
Katherine Schofield is an actress known for her role in the biographical television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
- 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: Mary Katherine Blackwood Target entity description: Mary Katherine Blackwood is the reclusive, unsettlingly cheerful and possibly unreliable young narrator of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," known for her morbid obsessions and deep mistrust of the outside world.
-
A.
Katherine Thorn
Katherine Thorn is a central character in the 1976 horror film "The Omen," portrayed as the adoptive mother of the sinister child Damien.
-
B.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
-
C.
Mary Desha
Mary Desha was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the four co-founders of the patriotic lineage organization Daughters of the American Revolution.
-
D.
Caroline Blackwood
Caroline Blackwood was a British writer and heiress known for her darkly comic novels and memoirs, as well as her connections to the Bloomsbury and literary circles of the mid-20th century.
-
E.
Katherine Schofield
Katherine Schofield is an actress known for her role in the biographical television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| ageInStory | teenager ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Merricat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | We Have Always Lived in the Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Blackwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
Blackwood parents are her deceased parents
ⓘ
Constance Blackwood is her older sister NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Blackwood is her uncle ⓘ |
| fears |
the outside world
ⓘ
villagers ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1962 ⓘ |
| fullName | Mary Katherine Blackwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary Katherine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenreContext | gothic fiction ⓘ |
| livesWith |
Constance Blackwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Julian Blackwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeCharacteristic | unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePerson | first-person ⓘ |
| narrativePerspectiveOnWorld | hostile and paranoid view of society ⓘ |
| notableAction |
buries and hides protective objects as charms
ⓘ
fantasizes about living on the moon ⓘ participated in the poisoning of her family ⓘ |
| notableTrait | strong attachment to the Blackwood estate ⓘ |
| obsession |
death
ⓘ
poison ⓘ protecting her home ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
cheerful
ⓘ
childlike ⓘ mistrustful of outsiders ⓘ reclusive ⓘ superstitious ⓘ unsettling ⓘ vengeful ⓘ |
| protectiveAttitudeToward | Constance Blackwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipWithCommunity | ostracized by villagers ⓘ |
| residence | Blackwood family house NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | narrator ⓘ |
| settingOfLife | a small New England village ⓘ |
| symbolicRole |
embodiment of isolation
ⓘ
embodiment of otherness ⓘ |
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: Mary Katherine Blackwood Description of subject: Mary Katherine Blackwood is the reclusive, unsettlingly cheerful and possibly unreliable young narrator of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," known for her morbid obsessions and deep mistrust of the outside world.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Merricat Blackwood
this entity surface form:
Merricat Blackwood