Mrs. Kirby
E270191
Mrs. Kirby is a conservative, upper-class matriarch who provides comic contrast to the eccentric Sycamore family in the play "You Can't Take It with You."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Kirby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2479371 — 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: Mrs. Kirby Context triple: [You Can't Take It with You, hasCharacter, Mrs. Kirby]
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A.
Mrs. Vandebilt
"Mrs. Vandebilt" is a song by Paul McCartney and Wings, featured on their 1973 album "Band on the Run."
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B.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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C.
Ruth Hopkins
Ruth Hopkins was a member of the prominent Hopkins family of early colonial New England, known primarily through her relationship to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins.
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D.
Mrs. Newsome
Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
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E.
Lucille Benson
Lucille Benson was an American character actress known for her comedic and maternal supporting roles in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- 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: Mrs. Kirby Target entity description: Mrs. Kirby is a conservative, upper-class matriarch who provides comic contrast to the eccentric Sycamore family in the play "You Can't Take It with You."
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A.
Mrs. Vandebilt
"Mrs. Vandebilt" is a song by Paul McCartney and Wings, featured on their 1973 album "Band on the Run."
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B.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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C.
Ruth Hopkins
Ruth Hopkins was a member of the prominent Hopkins family of early colonial New England, known primarily through her relationship to Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins.
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D.
Mrs. Newsome
Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
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E.
Lucille Benson
Lucille Benson was an American character actress known for her comedic and maternal supporting roles in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | You Can't Take It with You ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | stage play ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | the Sycamore family ⓘ |
| createdBy |
George S. Kaufman
ⓘ
Moss Hart ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
You Can't Take It with You (1936 play)
ⓘ
linked to:
You Can't Take It with You
|
| hasFamilyRole | matriarch ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
conventional
ⓘ
proper ⓘ socially conservative ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalView | conservative ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
New York City (fictionalized, 1930s)
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City (fictional setting)
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| hasSocialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| motherOf | Tony Kirby ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | comic contrast to the Sycamore family ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Mr. Kirby ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Kirby Description of subject: Mrs. Kirby is a conservative, upper-class matriarch who provides comic contrast to the eccentric Sycamore family in the play "You Can't Take It with You."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
You Can't Take It with You (co-written with George S. Kaufman)