Major Barbara
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Major Barbara is a play by George Bernard Shaw that explores themes of morality, religion, and capitalism through the story of a Salvation Army officer confronting the source of her organization’s funding.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Barbara canonical | 24 |
| Major Barbara (1941 film) | 1 |
| Major Barbara (first performed 1905) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2414246 — 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: Major Barbara Context triple: [George Bernard Shaw, notableWork, Major Barbara]
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A.
Felix Holt, the Radical
Felix Holt, the Radical is a social and political novel by George Eliot that explores class conflict, electoral reform, and moral integrity in 19th-century provincial England.
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B.
Adam Bede
Adam Bede is a 1859 realist novel by George Eliot that portrays rural English life and moral dilemmas through the story of a principled carpenter and those around him.
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C.
The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga is a series of novels by John Galsworthy that chronicles the lives, conflicts, and moral dilemmas of an upper-middle-class English family from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.
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D.
Emily Eden
Emily Eden was a 19th-century English author and aristocrat known for her witty novels and letters depicting British high society and colonial life in India.
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E.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner is a novel by George Eliot that tells the story of a reclusive weaver whose life is transformed by the arrival of an orphaned child.
- 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: Major Barbara Target entity description: Major Barbara is a play by George Bernard Shaw that explores themes of morality, religion, and capitalism through the story of a Salvation Army officer confronting the source of her organization’s funding.
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A.
Felix Holt, the Radical
Felix Holt, the Radical is a social and political novel by George Eliot that explores class conflict, electoral reform, and moral integrity in 19th-century provincial England.
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B.
Adam Bede
Adam Bede is a 1859 realist novel by George Eliot that portrays rural English life and moral dilemmas through the story of a principled carpenter and those around him.
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C.
The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga is a series of novels by John Galsworthy that chronicles the lives, conflicts, and moral dilemmas of an upper-middle-class English family from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.
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D.
Emily Eden
Emily Eden was a 19th-century English author and aristocrat known for her witty novels and letters depicting British high society and colonial life in India.
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E.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner is a novel by George Eliot that tells the story of a reclusive weaver whose life is transformed by the arrival of an orphaned child.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Major Barbara Description of subject: Major Barbara is a play by George Bernard Shaw that explores themes of morality, religion, and capitalism through the story of a Salvation Army officer confronting the source of her organization’s funding.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Major Barbara
linked to: Major Barbara
subject linked to:
Barbara Undershaft is a Salvation Army officer
subject linked to:
Andrew Undershaft is an armaments manufacturer
subject linked to:
Andrew Undershaft is an armaments manufacturer