Dorothy Gale
E377762
Dorothy Gale is the fictional young girl from Kansas who is swept away to the magical Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy Gale canonical | 136 |
| Dorothy | 1 |
| Dorothy (character) | 1 |
| Dorothy Gale (indirectly) | 1 |
| Dorothy and her friends | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3661627 — 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: Dorothy Gale Context triple: [Adria Arjona, portrayed, Dorothy Gale]
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A.
Dorothy
Dorothy is a feminine given name of Greek origin, meaning "gift of God," that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
The Wizard of Oz (character)
The Wizard of Oz (character) is the enigmatic and ultimately ordinary man from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories who poses as a powerful wizard while secretly being a humbug from Kansas.
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C.
Dorothy Fay
Dorothy Fay was an American film actress best known for her roles in 1930s and 1940s Westerns and as the wife of actor Tex Ritter.
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D.
Glinda the Good Witch
Glinda the Good Witch is a benevolent and powerful sorceress from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe, best known for guiding Dorothy on her journey home.
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E.
Princess Ozma
Princess Ozma is a fictional royal character from L. Frank Baum’s Oz book series, serving as the rightful ruler of the Land of Oz.
- 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: Dorothy Gale Target entity description: Dorothy Gale is the fictional young girl from Kansas who is swept away to the magical Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
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A.
Dorothy
Dorothy is a feminine given name of Greek origin, meaning "gift of God," that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
The Wizard of Oz (character)
The Wizard of Oz (character) is the enigmatic and ultimately ordinary man from L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories who poses as a powerful wizard while secretly being a humbug from Kansas.
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C.
Dorothy Fay
Dorothy Fay was an American film actress best known for her roles in 1930s and 1940s Westerns and as the wife of actor Tex Ritter.
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D.
Glinda the Good Witch
Glinda the Good Witch is a benevolent and powerful sorceress from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe, best known for guiding Dorothy on her journey home.
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E.
Princess Ozma
Princess Ozma is a fictional royal character from L. Frank Baum’s Oz book series, serving as the rightful ruler of the Land of Oz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Dorothy Gale Description of subject: Dorothy Gale is the fictional young girl from Kansas who is swept away to the magical Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
Referenced by (140)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dorothy Gale