Patsey
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Patsey is a young enslaved woman in the film "12 Years a Slave," known for her extraordinary resilience amid brutal abuse on a Louisiana plantation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patsey canonical | 8 |
| Patsey in 12 Years a Slave | 2 |
| Patsey (historical person) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1963846 — 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: Patsey Context triple: [12 Years a Slave, character, Patsey]
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A.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
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B.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Eva St. Clare
Eva St. Clare is a gentle, angelic young girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," symbolizing Christian compassion and moral purity.
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D.
Poussey Washington
Poussey Washington is a beloved, sharp-witted inmate in the television series "Orange Is the New Black," known for her moral integrity, tragic storyline, and close friendship with Taystee.
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E.
Baby Suggs
Baby Suggs is a formerly enslaved spiritual matriarch in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," known for preaching self-love and healing to her Black community.
- 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: Patsey Target entity description: Patsey is a young enslaved woman in the film "12 Years a Slave," known for her extraordinary resilience amid brutal abuse on a Louisiana plantation.
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A.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
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B.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Eva St. Clare
Eva St. Clare is a gentle, angelic young girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," symbolizing Christian compassion and moral purity.
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D.
Poussey Washington
Poussey Washington is a beloved, sharp-witted inmate in the television series "Orange Is the New Black," known for her moral integrity, tragic storyline, and close friendship with Taystee.
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E.
Baby Suggs
Baby Suggs is a formerly enslaved spiritual matriarch in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," known for preaching self-love and healing to her Black community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | 12 Years a Slave ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | historical drama film ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edwin Epps
ⓘ
Epps plantation ⓘ Solomon Northup ⓘ |
| basedOn | enslaved women described in Solomon Northup’s memoir ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
courageous
ⓘ
resilient ⓘ traumatized ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Steve McQueen ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
film 12 Years a Slave (2013)
ⓘ
linked to:
12 Years a Slave
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action cinema ⓘ |
| nationality | African American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of sexual and physical violence under slavery
ⓘ
extraordinary resilience under brutal abuse ⓘ |
| occupation | enslaved woman ⓘ |
| partOf |
12 Years a Slave (film narrative)
ⓘ
linked to:
12 Years a Slave
|
| portrayedBy | Lupita Nyong'o ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWork | John Ridley ⓘ |
| setting | Louisiana plantation ⓘ |
| theme |
American slavery
ⓘ
racial violence ⓘ sexual exploitation ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workOfFictionType | film ⓘ |
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: Patsey Description of subject: Patsey is a young enslaved woman in the film "12 Years a Slave," known for her extraordinary resilience amid brutal abuse on a Louisiana plantation.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Patsey
linked to: Patsey
subject linked to:
Lupita
linked to: Patsey
subject linked to:
Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in memoir)
subject linked to:
Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in memoir)
subject linked to:
Twelve Years a Slave (1853 book)