Beloved (infant daughter)
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Beloved (infant daughter) is the murdered baby daughter of Sethe in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," whose death and haunting presence embody the traumatic legacy of slavery.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beloved (infant daughter of Sethe) | 2 |
| Beloved (character) | 1 |
| Beloved (infant daughter) canonical | 1 |
| Sethe’s daughter Beloved | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3282882 — 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: Beloved (infant daughter) Context triple: [Sethe, child, Beloved (infant daughter)]
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A.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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B.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
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C.
Patsey
Patsey is a young enslaved woman in the film "12 Years a Slave," known for her extraordinary resilience amid brutal abuse on a Louisiana plantation.
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D.
Sethe
Sethe is the formerly enslaved protagonist of Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved," haunted by the trauma of her past and the ghost of the daughter she killed.
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E.
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the long-suffering, devoutly Christian enslaved man whose moral strength and tragic fate form the emotional and ethical core of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel.
- 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: Beloved (infant daughter) Target entity description: Beloved (infant daughter) is the murdered baby daughter of Sethe in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," whose death and haunting presence embody the traumatic legacy of slavery.
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A.
Cora
Cora is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Cora people in the Sierra del Nayar region of western Mexico.
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B.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
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C.
Patsey
Patsey is a young enslaved woman in the film "12 Years a Slave," known for her extraordinary resilience amid brutal abuse on a Louisiana plantation.
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D.
Sethe
Sethe is the formerly enslaved protagonist of Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved," haunted by the trauma of her past and the ghost of the daughter she killed.
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E.
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the long-suffering, devoutly Christian enslaved man whose moral strength and tragic fate form the emotional and ethical core of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
ghost ⓘ infant ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Beloved ⓘ |
| associatedWithHistoricalContext | American slavery ⓘ |
| associatedWithHistoricalEvent | fugitive slave experience ⓘ |
| associatedWithSetting |
Cincinnati, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
|
| burialInscription | Beloved ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | murder by her mother Sethe ⓘ |
| centralThemeIn | Beloved ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Toni Morrison ⓘ |
| diesAsInfant | true ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Toni Morrison ⓘ |
| hasMother | Sethe ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | word carved on her tombstone ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Buglar
ⓘ
Denver ⓘ Howard ⓘ |
| hauntsFamily |
Denver
ⓘ
Paul D ⓘ Sethe ⓘ |
| hauntsLocation | 124 Bluestone Road ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| linkedToCharacter |
Baby Suggs
ⓘ
Schoolteacher ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | throat cut with handsaw ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
catalyst for Sethe’s confrontation with her past
ⓘ
embodiment of haunting and memory ⓘ |
| ontologicalStatusInText | ambiguous between ghost and embodied return ⓘ |
| relatedWorkGenre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ magical realism ⓘ |
| relatedWorkTheme |
guilt
ⓘ
memory ⓘ motherhood ⓘ redemption ⓘ violence of slavery ⓘ |
| represents | the past that cannot be forgotten ⓘ |
| returnsInForm | young woman ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
collective historical trauma
ⓘ
legacy of slavery ⓘ repressed memory ⓘ trauma of slavery ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Beloved (infant daughter) Description of subject: Beloved (infant daughter) is the murdered baby daughter of Sethe in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," whose death and haunting presence embody the traumatic legacy of slavery.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Beloved (infant daughter)