Nurse Matilda
E115200
Nurse Matilda is the magical, stern-yet-kind nanny from Christianna Brand’s children’s books that inspired the film character Nanny McPhee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nurse Matilda canonical | 4 |
| Nurse Matilda Goes to Town | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971472 — 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: Nurse Matilda Context triple: [Nanny McPhee, basedOn, Nurse Matilda]
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A.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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B.
Martha
Martha is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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C.
Lucille
"Lucille" is a 1977 country song by Kenny Rogers that became one of his signature hits and a classic of the genre.
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D.
Lucille
Lucille is the famous black Gibson guitar closely associated with blues legend B.B. King, who named all his guitars by this name.
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E.
Mercy Lewis
Mercy Lewis was a young servant girl and one of the key accusers during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
- 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: Nurse Matilda Target entity description: Nurse Matilda is the magical, stern-yet-kind nanny from Christianna Brand’s children’s books that inspired the film character Nanny McPhee.
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A.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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B.
Martha
Martha is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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C.
Lucille
"Lucille" is a 1977 country song by Kenny Rogers that became one of his signature hits and a classic of the genre.
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D.
Lucille
Lucille is the famous black Gibson guitar closely associated with blues legend B.B. King, who named all his guitars by this name.
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E.
Mercy Lewis
Mercy Lewis was a young servant girl and one of the key accusers during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ magical nanny ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Nurse Matilda
ⓘ
Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital ⓘ
linked to:
Nurse Matilda book series
Nurse Matilda Goes to Town ⓘ
linked to:
Nurse Matilda
|
| basedOnWork | Nurse Matilda book series ⓘ |
| characterInSeries | Nurse Matilda book series ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Christianna Brand ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Nurse Matilda universe ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| genre | children's literature ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
kind
ⓘ
magical ⓘ stern ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | nanny ⓘ |
| hasPower | magical problem-solving ⓘ |
| hasRelativeInAdaptation | Nanny McPhee ⓘ |
| inspirationFor | Nanny McPhee film character ⓘ |
| inspired | Nanny McPhee ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| primaryTheme |
behavioral reform
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child discipline ⓘ family life ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork | Bodley Head ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Nanny McPhee (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Nanny McPhee
|
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
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: Nurse Matilda Description of subject: Nurse Matilda is the magical, stern-yet-kind nanny from Christianna Brand’s children’s books that inspired the film character Nanny McPhee.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nurse Matilda