Mama
E1020161
Mama, whose full name is Lena Younger, is the strong, compassionate matriarch of the Younger family in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mama canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13005544 — 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: Mama Context triple: [Lena Younger, alsoKnownAs, Mama]
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Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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Mama
Mama is a recurring supporting character in the animated television series "Rocket Power," known for her role within the show's surfing and extreme-sports-centered world.
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D.
Mama
Mama is a 2013 supernatural horror film known for its eerie ghost story about two feral sisters and the mysterious maternal entity that follows them.
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Mama
"Mama" is a popular Afrobeats song by Nigerian producer and songwriter Kiddominant.
- 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: Mama Target entity description: Mama, whose full name is Lena Younger, is the strong, compassionate matriarch of the Younger family in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun."
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A.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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B.
Mama
Mama is a recurring supporting character in the animated television series "Rocket Power," known for her role within the show's surfing and extreme-sports-centered world.
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C.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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D.
Mama
"Mama" is a popular Afrobeats song by Nigerian producer and songwriter Kiddominant.
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E.
Mama
Mama is a 2013 supernatural horror film known for its eerie ghost story about two feral sisters and the mysterious maternal entity that follows them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatrical character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mama ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | A Raisin in the Sun ⓘ |
| associatedWithObject | potted plant ⓘ |
| caresFor | Younger family ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
African American family aspirations
ⓘ
generational conflict ⓘ racial segregation in housing ⓘ |
| characterCreatedBy | Lorraine Hansberry ⓘ |
| familyName | Younger ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
A Raisin in the Sun (1959 play)
ⓘ
linked to:
A Raisin in the Sun
|
| fullName | Lena Younger ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Lena ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Beneatha Younger
ⓘ
Walter Lee Younger ⓘ
linked to:
character Walter Lee Younger
|
| influences | Walter Lee Younger’s decisions ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | iconic African American mother figure in American drama ⓘ |
| majorAction | uses insurance money to buy a house in a white neighborhood ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | desire for a better home for her family ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | African American ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| plantSymbolism | her care and hope for the family ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| role | matriarch of the Younger family ⓘ |
| setInCity | Chicago ⓘ |
| spouse | Mr. Younger ⓘ |
| supports | Beneatha Younger’s education ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
family unity
ⓘ
maternal strength ⓘ traditional values ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | mid-20th century United States ⓘ |
| trait |
compassionate
ⓘ
deeply religious ⓘ strong ⓘ |
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: Mama Description of subject: Mama, whose full name is Lena Younger, is the strong, compassionate matriarch of the Younger family in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mama