The Widow Hudspeth
E320852
The Widow Hudspeth is a minor but memorable figure in Jessamyn West’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Friendly Persuasion," representing the rural Quaker community’s everyday personalities and social ties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Widow Hudspeth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3023022 — 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: The Widow Hudspeth Context triple: [Friendly Persuasion, character, The Widow Hudspeth]
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A.
Martha Jane Kane
Martha Jane Kane was the wife of legendary Los Angeles Lakers guard and NBA logo inspiration Jerry West.
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B.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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C.
Mattie
Mattie is a diminutive given name, commonly used as a familiar or affectionate form of names like Martha.
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D.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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E.
Marion Sparks
Marion Sparks is a songwriter best known as the original composer of the blues standard "Every Day I Have the Blues."
- 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: The Widow Hudspeth Target entity description: The Widow Hudspeth is a minor but memorable figure in Jessamyn West’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Friendly Persuasion," representing the rural Quaker community’s everyday personalities and social ties.
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A.
Martha Jane Kane
Martha Jane Kane was the wife of legendary Los Angeles Lakers guard and NBA logo inspiration Jerry West.
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B.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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C.
Mattie
Mattie is a diminutive given name, commonly used as a familiar or affectionate form of names like Martha.
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D.
Mary Barstow
Mary Barstow was the second wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and the mother of his three sons.
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E.
Marion Sparks
Marion Sparks is a songwriter best known as the original composer of the blues standard "Every Day I Have the Blues."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Friendly Persuasion
ⓘ
Friendly Persuasion (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)
Friendly Persuasion (novel) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Quaker community
ⓘ
rural community life ⓘ |
| characterInGenre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
religious fiction ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jessamyn West ⓘ |
| genre | fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
cinema
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
illustrates social ties in rural Quaker life
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represents everyday personalities in Quaker community ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
minor character
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Quaker
ⓘ
linked to:
Religious Society of Friends
Religious Society of Friends ⓘ |
| settingOfResidence |
19th-century American Midwest
ⓘ
rural Indiana ⓘ |
| workBasedOn |
Friendly Persuasion (film adaptation)
ⓘ
linked to:
Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)
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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: The Widow Hudspeth Description of subject: The Widow Hudspeth is a minor but memorable figure in Jessamyn West’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Friendly Persuasion," representing the rural Quaker community’s everyday personalities and social ties.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.