Baby Kochamma
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Baby Kochamma is a bitter, manipulative grandaunt in Arundhati Roy’s novel *The God of Small Things*, whose actions and resentments profoundly shape the family’s tragedy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Baby Kochamma canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2083507 — 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: Baby Kochamma Context triple: [The God of Small Things, mainCharacters, Baby Kochamma]
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A.
Alamelu Mangamma
Alamelu Mangamma was the wife of C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent Indian independence activist and the last Governor-General of India.
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B.
Lokasundari Ammal
Lokasundari Ammal was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning Indian physicist C. V. Raman and a supportive figure in his personal and professional life.
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C.
Krishnakumari
Krishnakumari is a Bengali literary work by 19th-century poet and dramatist Michael Madhusudan Dutt, known for its pioneering role in modern Bengali drama.
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D.
Nabaneeta
Nabaneeta is a feminine given name most notably borne by the acclaimed Indian Bengali writer and academic Nabaneeta Dev Sen.
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E.
Madhavi
Madhavi is a celebrated courtesan and pivotal literary figure in ancient Tamil epic tradition, prominently featured in the Sangam-era works Silappatikaram and its sequel Manimekalai.
- 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: Baby Kochamma Target entity description: Baby Kochamma is a bitter, manipulative grandaunt in Arundhati Roy’s novel *The God of Small Things*, whose actions and resentments profoundly shape the family’s tragedy.
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A.
Alamelu Mangamma
Alamelu Mangamma was the wife of C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent Indian independence activist and the last Governor-General of India.
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B.
Lokasundari Ammal
Lokasundari Ammal was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning Indian physicist C. V. Raman and a supportive figure in his personal and professional life.
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C.
Krishnakumari
Krishnakumari is a Bengali literary work by 19th-century poet and dramatist Michael Madhusudan Dutt, known for its pioneering role in modern Bengali drama.
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D.
Nabaneeta
Nabaneeta is a feminine given name most notably borne by the acclaimed Indian Bengali writer and academic Nabaneeta Dev Sen.
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E.
Madhavi
Madhavi is a celebrated courtesan and pivotal literary figure in ancient Tamil epic tradition, prominently featured in the Sangam-era works Silappatikaram and its sequel Manimekalai.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Baby Kochamma Description of subject: Baby Kochamma is a bitter, manipulative grandaunt in Arundhati Roy’s novel *The God of Small Things*, whose actions and resentments profoundly shape the family’s tragedy.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.