Dora Flood
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Dora Flood is a prominent madam and compassionate businesswoman who runs a bordello in John Steinbeck’s novel "Cannery Row."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dora Flood canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3860021 — 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: Dora Flood Context triple: [Cannery Row, mainCharacter, Dora Flood]
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A.
Dora Luz
Dora Luz was a Mexican singer and actress best known for her musical performances in classic Disney films of the 1940s.
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B.
Dora
Dora is the given name of Dora Sigerson Shorter, an Irish poet associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century literary revival.
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C.
Dora
Dora is a character in Jim Jarmusch’s film "Broken Flowers," known as one of Don Johnston’s former girlfriends whom he visits while searching for the mother of his alleged son.
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D.
Dora Riparia
Dora Riparia is a river in northwestern Italy that flows through the city of Turin before joining the Po River.
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E.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
- 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: Dora Flood Target entity description: Dora Flood is a prominent madam and compassionate businesswoman who runs a bordello in John Steinbeck’s novel "Cannery Row."
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A.
Dora Luz
Dora Luz was a Mexican singer and actress best known for her musical performances in classic Disney films of the 1940s.
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B.
Dora
Dora is the given name of Dora Sigerson Shorter, an Irish poet associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century literary revival.
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C.
Dora
Dora is a character in Jim Jarmusch’s film "Broken Flowers," known as one of Don Johnston’s former girlfriends whom he visits while searching for the mother of his alleged son.
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D.
Dora Riparia
Dora Riparia is a river in northwestern Italy that flows through the city of Turin before joining the Po River.
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E.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businesswoman
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ madam ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Cannery Row ⓘ |
| associatedWith | residents of Cannery Row ⓘ |
| businessLocation | Cannery Row, Monterey, California (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| businessOwned | bordello ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
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generous ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle
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linked to:
Tortilla Flat
|
| firstAppearance |
Cannery Row (1945 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Cannery Row
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| helps |
down-and-out residents of Cannery Row
ⓘ
needy people in Cannery Row ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally complex but fundamentally kind ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining strict business sense with compassion
ⓘ
running a well-regulated bordello ⓘ |
| occupation |
businesswoman
ⓘ
madam ⓘ |
| partOf | the ensemble cast of Cannery Row ⓘ |
| respectedBy | many residents of Cannery Row ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
owner of a bordello in Cannery Row
ⓘ
prominent madam in Cannery Row ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Cannery Row ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | novel ⓘ |
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: Dora Flood Description of subject: Dora Flood is a prominent madam and compassionate businesswoman who runs a bordello in John Steinbeck’s novel "Cannery Row."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.