Mrs. Whatsit
E735062
Mrs. Whatsit is a quirky, otherworldly being who guides Meg Murry and her companions through space and time in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel "A Wrinkle in Time."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Whatsit canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8449873 — 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. Whatsit Context triple: [A Wrinkle in Time, character, Mrs. Whatsit]
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A.
Milbanke
Milbanke is an English aristocratic family name historically associated with the wife of poet Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke.
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B.
Petronella Osgood
Petronella Osgood is a scientific advisor to UNIT in the Doctor Who universe, known for her intelligence, dedication, and admiration for the Doctor.
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C.
Lyra Belacqua
Lyra Belacqua is a brave, impulsive young girl from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, known for her destiny-shaping role and her ability to read the alethiometer.
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D.
Octavia Blake
Octavia Blake is a fierce and rebellious warrior from the TV series "The 100," known for her dramatic evolution from a sheltered outcast to a key leader and fighter.
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E.
Ursula Brangwen
Ursula Brangwen is a central character in D. H. Lawrence’s fiction, portrayed as an intelligent, emotionally intense young woman struggling for personal freedom, love, and self-realization within the constraints of early 20th-century English society.
- 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. Whatsit Target entity description: Mrs. Whatsit is a quirky, otherworldly being who guides Meg Murry and her companions through space and time in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel "A Wrinkle in Time."
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A.
Milbanke
Milbanke is an English aristocratic family name historically associated with the wife of poet Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke.
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B.
Petronella Osgood
Petronella Osgood is a scientific advisor to UNIT in the Doctor Who universe, known for her intelligence, dedication, and admiration for the Doctor.
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C.
Lyra Belacqua
Lyra Belacqua is a brave, impulsive young girl from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, known for her destiny-shaping role and her ability to read the alethiometer.
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D.
Octavia Blake
Octavia Blake is a fierce and rebellious warrior from the TV series "The 100," known for her dramatic evolution from a sheltered outcast to a key leader and fighter.
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E.
Ursula Brangwen
Ursula Brangwen is a central character in D. H. Lawrence’s fiction, portrayed as an intelligent, emotionally intense young woman struggling for personal freedom, love, and self-realization within the constraints of early 20th-century English society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
otherworldly being ⓘ supernatural guide ⓘ |
| allyOf |
Mrs. Which
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mrs. Who NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Wrinkle in Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time
ⓘ
2003 television film A Wrinkle in Time NERFINISHED ⓘ 2018 film A Wrinkle in Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Time Quintet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsWithCharacter |
Calvin O’Keefe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Wallace Murry NERFINISHED ⓘ Meg Murry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept | tesseract ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
good versus evil
ⓘ
love as a saving force ⓘ |
| basedInUniverse | A Wrinkle in Time universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canTransform | into celestial being ⓘ |
| createdBy | Madeleine L’Engle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | A Wrinkle in Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fantasy ⓘ |
| guidesCharacter |
Calvin O’Keefe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Wallace Murry NERFINISHED ⓘ Meg Murry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
eccentric ⓘ kind ⓘ quirky ⓘ |
| helpsCharacterRescue | Dr. Alex Murry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryRole | deus ex machina-like helper ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| memberOfGroup | the three Mrs. W’s NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityOfWork | American literature ⓘ |
| opposes |
IT
ⓘ
the Black Thing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Alfre Woodard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reese Witherspoon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
guide on quest
ⓘ
mentor figure ⓘ |
| settingTraversed |
Camazotz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ Uriel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young adult readers ⓘ |
| travelsThrough |
space
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time ⓘ |
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. Whatsit Description of subject: Mrs. Whatsit is a quirky, otherworldly being who guides Meg Murry and her companions through space and time in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel "A Wrinkle in Time."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.