Kate Soffel
E228669
Kate Soffel is the real-life warden’s wife whose illicit romance with a condemned prisoner inspired the 1984 film "Mrs. Soffel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kate Soffel canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1651959 — 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: Kate Soffel Context triple: [Mrs. Soffel, mainCharacter, Kate Soffel]
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A.
Karen Rosenfelt
Karen Rosenfelt is an American film producer known for her work on major studio franchises and popular young adult adaptations, including entries in the Twilight series.
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B.
Kate Schechter
Kate Schechter is a central character in Douglas Adams's novel "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul," an American living in London who becomes entangled in a bizarre mystery involving Norse gods and the holistic detective Dirk Gently.
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C.
Karen Vogtmann
Karen Vogtmann is an American mathematician known for her influential work in geometric group theory and topology, particularly on Outer space and automorphisms of free groups.
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D.
Jessica Szohr
Jessica Szohr is an American actress best known for her role as Vanessa Abrams on the television series "Gossip Girl" and later as a main cast member on the sci-fi comedy-drama "The Orville."
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E.
Anna Nolin
Anna Nolin is an American educator and school district leader who serves as superintendent of the Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.
- 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: Kate Soffel Target entity description: Kate Soffel is the real-life warden’s wife whose illicit romance with a condemned prisoner inspired the 1984 film "Mrs. Soffel."
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A.
Karen Rosenfelt
Karen Rosenfelt is an American film producer known for her work on major studio franchises and popular young adult adaptations, including entries in the Twilight series.
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B.
Kate Schechter
Kate Schechter is a central character in Douglas Adams's novel "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul," an American living in London who becomes entangled in a bizarre mystery involving Norse gods and the holistic detective Dirk Gently.
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C.
Karen Vogtmann
Karen Vogtmann is an American mathematician known for her influential work in geometric group theory and topology, particularly on Outer space and automorphisms of free groups.
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D.
Jessica Szohr
Jessica Szohr is an American actress best known for her role as Vanessa Abrams on the television series "Gossip Girl" and later as a main cast member on the sci-fi comedy-drama "The Orville."
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E.
Anna Nolin
Anna Nolin is an American educator and school district leader who serves as superintendent of the Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Allegheny County Jail escape case
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Biddle brothers ⓘ |
| basedOnRealPersonIn | "Mrs. Soffel" (1984 film) ⓘ |
| charge | aiding and abetting prison escape ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| event | assisted prison escape of the Biddle brothers ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | true crime ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | film "Mrs. Soffel" ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Kate Soffel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central figure in Biddle brothers escape story ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping condemned prisoners Ed and Jack Biddle escape
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romantic relationship with condemned prisoner Ed Biddle ⓘ |
| occupation | warden's wife ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Allegheny County Jail ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Diane Keaton ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity (inferred, not certain)
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linked to:
Christianity
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| residence | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Edward Soffel ⓘ |
| subjectOf | 1984 film "Mrs. Soffel" ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Kate Soffel Description of subject: Kate Soffel is the real-life warden’s wife whose illicit romance with a condemned prisoner inspired the 1984 film "Mrs. Soffel."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Mrs. Soffel"
subject linked to:
1984 film "Mrs. Soffel"
subject linked to:
"Mrs. Soffel" (1984 film)