Tilling
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Tilling is the fictional seaside town in E.F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" novels, known for its satirical portrayal of upper-middle-class social rivalries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tilling canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10419322 — 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: Tilling Context triple: [Mapp and Lucia series, fictionalTown, Tilling]
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A.
Fall Plowing
"Fall Plowing" is a 1931 Regionalist landscape painting by American artist Grant Wood that idealizes the rural Midwestern farming countryside.
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B.
The Tilled Field
The Tilled Field is a seminal 1923–24 surrealist painting by Joan Miró that marks his transition from detailed realism to a highly personal, symbolic, and abstract visual language.
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C.
Harvest
Harvest is a 1972 folk-rock album by Neil Young, widely regarded as one of his signature works and a classic of the singer-songwriter era.
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D.
Harvest
"Harvest" is a medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that follows a young surgical resident who uncovers a deadly black-market organ trafficking scheme.
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E.
The Farmer
The Farmer is a lost comedic play by the ancient Greek playwright Philemon, who was a prominent figure of New Comedy.
- 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: Tilling Target entity description: Tilling is the fictional seaside town in E.F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" novels, known for its satirical portrayal of upper-middle-class social rivalries.
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A.
Fall Plowing
"Fall Plowing" is a 1931 Regionalist landscape painting by American artist Grant Wood that idealizes the rural Midwestern farming countryside.
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B.
The Tilled Field
The Tilled Field is a seminal 1923–24 surrealist painting by Joan Miró that marks his transition from detailed realism to a highly personal, symbolic, and abstract visual language.
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C.
Harvest
Harvest is a 1972 folk-rock album by Neil Young, widely regarded as one of his signature works and a classic of the singer-songwriter era.
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D.
Harvest
"Harvest" is a medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that follows a young surgical resident who uncovers a deadly black-market organ trafficking scheme.
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E.
The Farmer
The Farmer is a lost comedic play by the ancient Greek playwright Philemon, who was a prominent figure of New Comedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional town ⓘ seaside town ⓘ setting in literature ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | E. F. Benson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | seaside town ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInWork | Miss Mapp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext |
comic novel
ⓘ
social satire ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationContext | television adaptations of Mapp and Lucia ⓘ |
| hasLandmarkInFiction |
Grebe
NERFINISHED
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High Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Mallards NERFINISHED ⓘ Tilling Church NERFINISHED ⓘ Tilling River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableResidentInFiction |
Diva Plaistow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Mapp NERFINISHED ⓘ Emmeline Lucas (Lucia) NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgie Pillson NERFINISHED ⓘ Irene Coles NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Benjy Flint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
provincial society
ⓘ
snobbery ⓘ social climbing ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Rye, East Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | satirical portrayal of upper-middle-class social rivalries ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInWork |
Mapp and Lucia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mapp and Lucia (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mapp and Lucia series NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Mapp NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Lucia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | microcosm of English upper-middle-class society ⓘ |
| portrayedByRealPlaceInAdaptations | Rye, East Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Tilling Description of subject: Tilling is the fictional seaside town in E.F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" novels, known for its satirical portrayal of upper-middle-class social rivalries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.