Ellie Appleton
E190400
Ellie Appleton is the protagonist of the romantic comedy film "Yesterday," in which she serves as the longtime friend and love interest of struggling musician Jack Malik.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ellie Appleton canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678083 — 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: Ellie Appleton Context triple: [Yesterday, mainCharacter, Ellie Appleton]
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A.
Zara Tindall
Zara Tindall is a British equestrian and Olympic silver medallist who is the daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and a granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
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B.
Rhian Wilkinson
Rhian Wilkinson is a former Canadian international soccer player and coach who notably led the Portland Thorns FC to the 2022 NWSL Championship.
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C.
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Jessica Ennis-Hill is a British former heptathlete and Olympic gold medallist widely regarded as one of the greatest female track and field athletes of her generation.
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D.
Sarah Rowsell
Sarah Rowsell was the wife of prominent 19th-century English architect Sir Charles Barry, known for supporting him throughout his career designing landmarks such as the Palace of Westminster.
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E.
Lucy Fleming
Lucy Fleming is a British actress and audiobook narrator, known for her work in television, film, and audio adaptations, and as the niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
- 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: Ellie Appleton Target entity description: Ellie Appleton is the protagonist of the romantic comedy film "Yesterday," in which she serves as the longtime friend and love interest of struggling musician Jack Malik.
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A.
Zara Tindall
Zara Tindall is a British equestrian and Olympic silver medallist who is the daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and a granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
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B.
Rhian Wilkinson
Rhian Wilkinson is a former Canadian international soccer player and coach who notably led the Portland Thorns FC to the 2022 NWSL Championship.
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C.
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Jessica Ennis-Hill is a British former heptathlete and Olympic gold medallist widely regarded as one of the greatest female track and field athletes of her generation.
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D.
Sarah Rowsell
Sarah Rowsell was the wife of prominent 19th-century English architect Sir Charles Barry, known for supporting him throughout his career designing landmarks such as the Palace of Westminster.
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E.
Lucy Fleming
Lucy Fleming is a British actress and audiobook narrator, known for her work in television, film, and audio adaptations, and as the niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Yesterday ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Richard Curtis ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Yesterday ⓘ |
| genre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| genreContext |
comedy
ⓘ
romance ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Appleton ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Jack Malik ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Ellie ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
longtime friend of Jack Malik
ⓘ
love interest ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
road manager
ⓘ
schoolteacher ⓘ |
| partOf |
Yesterday (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Yesterday (2019 film)
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| portrayedBy | Lily James ⓘ |
| romanticallyInvolvedWith | Jack Malik ⓘ |
| storyFocus | relationship with Jack Malik ⓘ |
| supportsCareerOf | Jack Malik ⓘ |
| worksWith | Jack Malik ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 2019 ⓘ |
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: Ellie Appleton Description of subject: Ellie Appleton is the protagonist of the romantic comedy film "Yesterday," in which she serves as the longtime friend and love interest of struggling musician Jack Malik.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
experiences a global blackout after which only he remembers The Beatles
subject linked to:
experiences a global blackout after which only he remembers The Beatles