Mrs Ramsay
E946021
Mrs Ramsay is the compassionate, perceptive matriarch at the center of Virginia Woolf’s novel "To the Lighthouse," around whom the family’s emotional life and the book’s exploration of time and consciousness revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs Ramsay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11776431 — 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 Ramsay Context triple: [To the Lighthouse, hasMainCharacter, Mrs Ramsay]
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A.
Mrs. Munro
Mrs. Munro is a housekeeper and caretaker who works for an aging Sherlock Holmes in the film "Mr. Holmes."
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B.
Clarissa Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway is the introspective, upper-class London woman at the center of Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway," known for her reflections on time, memory, and the constraints of society.
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C.
Flora Drummond
Flora Drummond was a prominent British suffragette leader and organizer, nicknamed "The General" for her militant tactics and commanding presence in the campaign for women's voting rights.
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D.
Mrs. Macauley
Mrs. Macauley is the resilient widowed mother in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," embodying warmth, strength, and moral guidance for her family during World War II.
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E.
Martha Laurens Ramsay
Martha Laurens Ramsay was an 18th-century American diarist and devout Christian woman from a prominent South Carolina family, whose pious life and writings were published posthumously and became widely read in early American religious circles.
- 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 Ramsay Target entity description: Mrs Ramsay is the compassionate, perceptive matriarch at the center of Virginia Woolf’s novel "To the Lighthouse," around whom the family’s emotional life and the book’s exploration of time and consciousness revolve.
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A.
Mrs. Munro
Mrs. Munro is a housekeeper and caretaker who works for an aging Sherlock Holmes in the film "Mr. Holmes."
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B.
Clarissa Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway is the introspective, upper-class London woman at the center of Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway," known for her reflections on time, memory, and the constraints of society.
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C.
Flora Drummond
Flora Drummond was a prominent British suffragette leader and organizer, nicknamed "The General" for her militant tactics and commanding presence in the campaign for women's voting rights.
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D.
Mrs. Macauley
Mrs. Macauley is the resilient widowed mother in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," embodying warmth, strength, and moral guidance for her family during World War II.
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E.
Martha Laurens Ramsay
Martha Laurens Ramsay was an 18th-century American diarist and devout Christian woman from a prominent South Carolina family, whose pious life and writings were published posthumously and became widely read in early American religious circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ mother ⓘ novel character ⓘ wife ⓘ |
| appearsIn | To the Lighthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSection | The Window NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
consciousness
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domesticity ⓘ ephemerality of life ⓘ gender roles ⓘ marriage ⓘ motherhood ⓘ time ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
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nurturing ⓘ perceptive ⓘ self-sacrificing ⓘ socially adept ⓘ |
| createdBy | Virginia Woolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathStatusInNarrative | dies between The Window and Time Passes ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | To the Lighthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1927 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasImportantScene | dinner party at the Ramsays’ house ⓘ |
| influences |
Cam Ramsay
NERFINISHED
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James Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ Lily Briscoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largelyAbsentInSection | Time Passes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modernist literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
emotional center of the Ramsay family
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matriarch ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Cam Ramsay
NERFINISHED
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James Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ Jasper Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ Prue Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rememberedInSection | The Lighthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central character
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protagonist ⓘ |
| setting | Isle of Skye, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Mr Ramsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
ephemeral beauty
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stability ⓘ the unifying power of love ⓘ |
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 Ramsay Description of subject: Mrs Ramsay is the compassionate, perceptive matriarch at the center of Virginia Woolf’s novel "To the Lighthouse," around whom the family’s emotional life and the book’s exploration of time and consciousness revolve.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.