Cordelia
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Cordelia is the youngest daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare’s tragedy, renowned for her honesty, loyalty, and tragic fate.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cordelia canonical | 15 |
| Cordelia (indirectly referenced) | 1 |
| Cordelia’s exile | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3456780 — 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: Cordelia Context triple: [King Lear, mainCharacter, Cordelia]
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A.
Cordelia
Cordelia is an unincorporated census-designated community in Solano County, California, known for its location near the junction of major highways and its role as a residential and commercial hub in the area.
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B.
Cordelia
Cordelia is a character in Margaret Atwood's novel "Cat's Eye," known as the childhood friend and tormentor of the protagonist, Elaine Risley.
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Cordelia’s Portion
Cordelia’s Portion is a painting by Victorian artist Ford Madox Brown depicting the moment in Shakespeare’s King Lear when the honest daughter Cordelia receives her share of the kingdom.
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D.
Honora
Honora is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "honor" or "woman of honor."
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E.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous 1894 Pre-Raphaelite painting by John William Waterhouse depicting the tragic Shakespearean heroine from Hamlet.
- 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: Cordelia Target entity description: Cordelia is the youngest daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare’s tragedy, renowned for her honesty, loyalty, and tragic fate.
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A.
Cordelia
Cordelia is an unincorporated census-designated community in Solano County, California, known for its location near the junction of major highways and its role as a residential and commercial hub in the area.
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B.
Cordelia
Cordelia is a character in Margaret Atwood's novel "Cat's Eye," known as the childhood friend and tormentor of the protagonist, Elaine Risley.
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C.
Cordelia’s Portion
Cordelia’s Portion is a painting by Victorian artist Ford Madox Brown depicting the moment in Shakespeare’s King Lear when the honest daughter Cordelia receives her share of the kingdom.
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D.
Honora
Honora is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "honor" or "woman of honor."
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E.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous 1894 Pre-Raphaelite painting by John William Waterhouse depicting the tragic Shakespearean heroine from Hamlet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakespearean character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| allies |
Earl of Kent
ⓘ
King of France ⓘ |
| appearsIn | King Lear ⓘ |
| banishedBy | King Lear ⓘ |
| causeOfConflict | refusal to exaggerate love for Lear ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
courageous ⓘ dutiful ⓘ honest ⓘ loyal ⓘ modest ⓘ truthful ⓘ |
| creator | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| deathCause | hanging ⓘ |
| deathIn |
King Lear, Act V
ⓘ
linked to:
King Lear
|
| enemy |
Duke of Albany
ⓘ
Duke of Cornwall ⓘ Goneril ⓘ Regan ⓘ |
| familyName | none ⓘ |
| fate |
captured
ⓘ
executed in prison ⓘ |
| father | King Lear ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | King Lear ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
King Lear, Act I, Scene 1
ⓘ
linked to:
King Lear
|
| genreOfWork | tragedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Cordelia ⓘ |
| goal | to rescue King Lear ⓘ |
| inherits | no share of Lear’s kingdom ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Cordelia in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
honest declaration of love to her father
ⓘ
refusal to flatter King Lear ⓘ tragic death ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | youngest daughter ⓘ |
| returnsTo | Britain with French army ⓘ |
| royalStatus | princess ⓘ |
| sibling |
Goneril
ⓘ
Regan ⓘ |
| spouse | King of France ⓘ |
| symbolism |
filial piety
ⓘ
redemptive love ⓘ truth ⓘ |
| title |
Princess of Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
Princess of Great Britain
|
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: Cordelia Description of subject: Cordelia is the youngest daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare’s tragedy, renowned for her honesty, loyalty, and tragic fate.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cordelia