Annalise
E249790
Annalise is a minor but pivotal character in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Smiley’s People," involved in the intricate web of intelligence and personal relationships surrounding George Smiley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Annalise canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2250438 — 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: Annalise Context triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Annalise]
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A.
Alison
Alison is a feminine given name of English origin, commonly used in many English-speaking countries.
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B.
Allegra Stratton
Allegra Stratton is a British journalist and former Downing Street press secretary known for her work in political communications and broadcasting.
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C.
Molly Stark
Molly Stark was the wife of American Revolutionary War General John Stark, remembered in part through his famous battle cry invoking her name at the Battle of Bennington.
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D.
Annie Corley
Annie Corley is an American actress known for her supporting roles in films such as "The Bridges of Madison County" and various television series.
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E.
Ainsley Whitly
Ainsley Whitly is a central character on the TV series "Prodigal Son," a driven and ambitious television journalist and the younger sister of profiler Malcolm Bright.
- 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: Annalise Target entity description: Annalise is a minor but pivotal character in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Smiley’s People," involved in the intricate web of intelligence and personal relationships surrounding George Smiley.
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A.
Alison
Alison is a feminine given name of English origin, commonly used in many English-speaking countries.
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B.
Allegra Stratton
Allegra Stratton is a British journalist and former Downing Street press secretary known for her work in political communications and broadcasting.
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C.
Molly Stark
Molly Stark was the wife of American Revolutionary War General John Stark, remembered in part through his famous battle cry invoking her name at the Battle of Bennington.
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D.
Annie Corley
Annie Corley is an American actress known for her supporting roles in films such as "The Bridges of Madison County" and various television series.
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E.
Ainsley Whitly
Ainsley Whitly is a central character on the TV series "Prodigal Son," a driven and ambitious television journalist and the younger sister of profiler Malcolm Bright.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Smiley’s People
ⓘ
linked to:
Smiley’s People (novel)
|
| appearsInSeries | George Smiley series ⓘ |
| associatedWith | George Smiley ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganizationInFiction |
East German intelligence
ⓘ
linked to:
East German Stasi
the Circus ⓘ |
| connectedToTheme |
Cold War espionage
ⓘ
betrayal ⓘ loyalty ⓘ personal sacrifice ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction | Germany ⓘ |
| createdBy | John le Carré ⓘ |
| fictionalTimePeriod |
Cold War era
ⓘ
linked to:
Cold War
|
| genre | espionage fiction character ⓘ |
| hasFictionalOccupation | intelligence asset ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | civilian involved with intelligence services ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
intelligence operations
ⓘ
personal relationships surrounding George Smiley ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeSignificance | pivotal character ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
George Smiley universe
ⓘ
linked to:
George Smiley
|
| publicationContext | Smiley’s People first published in 1979 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkAuthor | John le Carré ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor character ⓘ |
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: Annalise Description of subject: Annalise is a minor but pivotal character in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Smiley’s People," involved in the intricate web of intelligence and personal relationships surrounding George Smiley.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Smiley’s People (novel)