Clarice Starling
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Clarice Starling is a determined and intelligent FBI trainee-turned-agent best known as the protagonist of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations, particularly The Silence of the Lambs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clarice Starling canonical | 36 |
| Clarice M. Starling (character) – various adaptations | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197755 — 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: Clarice Starling Context triple: [Jodie Foster, portrayed, Clarice Starling]
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A.
Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown is a 1997 crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, adapted from Elmore Leonard’s novel "Rum Punch," and known for its ensemble cast and homage to 1970s blaxploitation cinema.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Amy Pope
Amy Pope is an American lawyer and former White House official who serves as the Director General of the International Organization for Migration, leading global efforts on migration governance and humanitarian response.
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D.
Claudia
Claudia is a feminine given name used in various cultures, derived from the ancient Roman family name Claudius.
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E.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
- 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: Clarice Starling Target entity description: Clarice Starling is a determined and intelligent FBI trainee-turned-agent best known as the protagonist of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations, particularly The Silence of the Lambs.
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A.
Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown is a 1997 crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, adapted from Elmore Leonard’s novel "Rum Punch," and known for its ensemble cast and homage to 1970s blaxploitation cinema.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Amy Pope
Amy Pope is an American lawyer and former White House official who serves as the Director General of the International Organization for Migration, leading global efforts on migration governance and humanitarian response.
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D.
Claudia
Claudia is a feminine given name used in various cultures, derived from the ancient Roman family name Claudius.
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E.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Behavioral Science Unit (FBI)
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linked to:
FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit
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| appearsIn |
Hannibal (TV series) – referenced/alternate continuity
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Hannibal (film) ⓘ Hannibal (novel) ⓘ Red Dragon (novel series continuity) ⓘ
linked to:
Hannibal Lecter film series
The Silence of the Lambs (film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs (novel) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb)
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Hannibal Lecter ⓘ Mason Verger ⓘ |
| awardConnection |
Jodie Foster – Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying Clarice Starling
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The Silence of the Lambs (film) – Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs
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| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Thomas Harris ⓘ |
| education |
FBI Academy at Quantico (training)
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linked to:
FBI Academy
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| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| familyBackground | orphaned at a young age (in backstory) ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Hannibal Lecter universe
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linked to:
Hannibal Lecter film series
|
| firstAppearance |
The Silence of the Lambs (1988 novel)
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linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
crime thriller
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| goal | to catch serial killer Buffalo Bill ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
feature film
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novel ⓘ television series spin-off (Clarice) ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableScene | interviews with Hannibal Lecter in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hannibal
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The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
|
| occupation |
FBI agent
ⓘ
FBI trainee ⓘ |
| partner |
Jack Crawford (professional mentor)
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linked to:
Jack Crawford
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| portrayedBy |
Clarice M. Starling (character) – various adaptations
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linked to:
Clarice Starling
Jodie Foster ⓘ Julianne Moore ⓘ Rebecca Breeds ⓘ |
| series |
Hannibal Lecter series
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linked to:
Hannibal Lecter film series
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| setting | Quantico, Virginia ⓘ |
| skill |
criminal profiling
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firearms proficiency ⓘ investigation ⓘ |
| trait |
courageous
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determined ⓘ intelligent ⓘ |
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: Clarice Starling Description of subject: Clarice Starling is a determined and intelligent FBI trainee-turned-agent best known as the protagonist of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations, particularly The Silence of the Lambs.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Clarice Starling
Hannibal (TV series) – referenced/alternate continuity
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Clarice Starling
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Hannibal (TV series) – referenced/alternate continuity
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Clarice Starling
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subject linked to:
Hannibal
subject linked to:
Hannibal Lecter novels
subject linked to:
Hannibal Lecter novels
subject linked to:
Belvedere, Ohio (fictionalized setting)
subject linked to:
Hannibal Lecter film series character Barney Matthews