Bailey’s wife
E1011909
Bailey’s wife is a character in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” known as the mother of the family who encounters the criminal Misfit during their ill-fated road trip.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bailey’s wife canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12942890 — 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: Bailey’s wife Context triple: [The Misfit, killsCharacter, Bailey’s wife]
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A.
Marion Bailey
Marion Bailey is a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in Mike Leigh’s productions.
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B.
Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick was an American stage and film actress best known for her sharp-witted comedic roles in 1930s Hollywood musicals and comedies.
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C.
Bessie Carter
Bessie Carter is an English actress known for roles in period dramas such as "Howards End" and "Bridgerton."
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D.
June Boatwright
June Boatwright is a strong-willed, emotionally guarded cellist and beekeeper who serves as one of the Boatwright sisters providing refuge and guidance in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees."
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E.
Miriam Brady
Miriam Brady is the central female protagonist in the 1935 romantic drama film "The Girl from 10th Avenue," whose impulsive marriage to a wealthy man drives the story’s exploration of class and love.
- 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: Bailey’s wife Target entity description: Bailey’s wife is a character in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” known as the mother of the family who encounters the criminal Misfit during their ill-fated road trip.
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A.
Marion Bailey
Marion Bailey is a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in Mike Leigh’s productions.
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B.
Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick was an American stage and film actress best known for her sharp-witted comedic roles in 1930s Hollywood musicals and comedies.
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C.
Bessie Carter
Bessie Carter is an English actress known for roles in period dramas such as "Howards End" and "Bridgerton."
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D.
June Boatwright
June Boatwright is a strong-willed, emotionally guarded cellist and beekeeper who serves as one of the Boatwright sisters providing refuge and guidance in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees."
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E.
Miriam Brady
Miriam Brady is the central female protagonist in the 1935 romantic drama film "The Girl from 10th Avenue," whose impulsive marriage to a wealthy man drives the story’s exploration of class and love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
ⓘ
linked to:
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
|
| appearsInCollection | "A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories" ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Flannery O’Connor
ⓘ
linked to:
Flannery O'Connor
|
| encounters |
the Misfit
ⓘ
the Misfit’s accomplices ⓘ |
| familyRole |
daughter-in-law of the grandmother
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1953 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild |
John Wesley
ⓘ
June Star ⓘ unnamed baby ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
member of the central family
ⓘ
victim of violent crime ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| settingOfWork |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| spouse | Bailey ⓘ |
| storyMedium | short story ⓘ |
| travelsWith |
Bailey
ⓘ
John Wesley ⓘ June Star ⓘ her baby ⓘ the grandmother ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| workGenre |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ |
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: Bailey’s wife Description of subject: Bailey’s wife is a character in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” known as the mother of the family who encounters the criminal Misfit during their ill-fated road trip.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the Misfit