Mrs. Marlow
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Mrs. Marlow is a character in the British television serial "The Singing Detective," known as the troubled and complex mother of the protagonist, Philip Marlow.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Marlow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3016705 — 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. Marlow Context triple: [The Singing Detective, hasCharacter, Mrs. Marlow]
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A.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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B.
Ellen Allerton
Ellen Allerton was a 19th-century American poet and writer known for her regional verse and depictions of frontier and rural life.
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C.
Jane Livesey
Jane Livesey is best known as the wife of the late English actor Bob Hoskins.
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D.
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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E.
Mrs. Prest
Mrs. Prest is a resourceful and inquisitive Englishwoman in Henry James’s novella "The Aspern Papers," who helps the narrator gain access to the reclusive Juliana Bordereau in Venice.
- 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. Marlow Target entity description: Mrs. Marlow is a character in the British television serial "The Singing Detective," known as the troubled and complex mother of the protagonist, Philip Marlow.
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A.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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B.
Ellen Allerton
Ellen Allerton was a 19th-century American poet and writer known for her regional verse and depictions of frontier and rural life.
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C.
Jane Livesey
Jane Livesey is best known as the wife of the late English actor Bob Hoskins.
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D.
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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E.
Mrs. Prest
Mrs. Prest is a resourceful and inquisitive Englishwoman in Henry James’s novella "The Aspern Papers," who helps the narrator gain access to the reclusive Juliana Bordereau in Venice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
British television serial
ⓘ
The Singing Detective ⓘ |
| appearsInFormat | television serial ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
complex
ⓘ
emotionally distant ⓘ guilt-ridden ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Dennis Potter ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Singing Detective ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ |
| hasChild | Philip Marlow ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | source of protagonist's childhood trauma ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | mother of the protagonist ⓘ |
| narrativeThemeAssociation |
family dysfunction
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memory and trauma ⓘ mother–son relationship ⓘ |
| originatesFromWork | The Singing Detective ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of The Singing Detective ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action television ⓘ |
| relationshipToPhilipMarlow | mother ⓘ |
| settingOfCharacter | England ⓘ |
| significanceInPlot | central influence on Philip Marlow's psychological state ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalExistence | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| workDebut | The Singing Detective ⓘ |
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. Marlow Description of subject: Mrs. Marlow is a character in the British television serial "The Singing Detective," known as the troubled and complex mother of the protagonist, Philip Marlow.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.