Brigid O’Shaughnessy
E394657
Brigid O’Shaughnessy is a central, duplicitous femme fatale character in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brigid O’Shaughnessy canonical | 3 |
| Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3875331 — 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: Brigid O’Shaughnessy Context triple: [Sam Spade, associatedWith, Brigid O’Shaughnessy]
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A.
Katherine O’Flaherty
Katherine O’Flaherty, better known by her pen name Kate Chopin, was an American author recognized for her pioneering feminist short stories and the novel "The Awakening."
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B.
Colleen O'Neill
Colleen O'Neill is an American nurse and widow of reclusive author J. D. Salinger, known primarily for her marriage to the famed writer.
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C.
Deirdre Blake
Deirdre Blake is a fictional character appearing in the play "The Humans" by Stephen Karam.
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D.
Brigid Blake
Brigid Blake is a central character in Stephen Karam’s play *The Humans*, a young woman navigating family tensions, financial strain, and personal uncertainty during a fraught Thanksgiving gathering.
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E.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Elizabeth McLaughlin is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as the psychological drama "Hand of God."
- 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: Brigid O’Shaughnessy Target entity description: Brigid O’Shaughnessy is a central, duplicitous femme fatale character in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon."
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A.
Katherine O’Flaherty
Katherine O’Flaherty, better known by her pen name Kate Chopin, was an American author recognized for her pioneering feminist short stories and the novel "The Awakening."
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B.
Colleen O'Neill
Colleen O'Neill is an American nurse and widow of reclusive author J. D. Salinger, known primarily for her marriage to the famed writer.
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C.
Deirdre Blake
Deirdre Blake is a fictional character appearing in the play "The Humans" by Stephen Karam.
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D.
Brigid Blake
Brigid Blake is a central character in Stephen Karam’s play *The Humans*, a young woman navigating family tensions, financial strain, and personal uncertainty during a fraught Thanksgiving gathering.
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E.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Elizabeth McLaughlin is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as the psychological drama "Hand of God."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
femme fatale
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Maltese Falcon
|
| associatedWith |
Sam Spade
ⓘ
the Maltese Falcon statuette ⓘ
linked to:
Maltese Falcon statuette
|
| characterTrait |
charming
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deceptive ⓘ duplicitous ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| createdBy | Dashiell Hammett ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Maltese Falcon universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Maltese Falcon
|
| firstAppearance |
The Maltese Falcon (1930 novel)
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linked to:
The Maltese Falcon
|
| genre | hardboiled detective fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryArchetype | classic noir femme fatale ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | iconic femme fatale of hardboiled detective fiction ⓘ |
| motivation |
acquiring the Maltese Falcon
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self-preservation ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
instigator of the main investigation
ⓘ
love interest of Sam Spade ⓘ |
| nationalityInWork | American ⓘ |
| partOf | American crime fiction canon ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Mary Astor ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
antagonist in The Maltese Falcon
ⓘ
central character in The Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | San Francisco ⓘ |
| usesAlias |
Brigid O’Shaughnessy
ⓘ
Miss Wonderly ⓘ |
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: Brigid O’Shaughnessy Description of subject: Brigid O’Shaughnessy is a central, duplicitous femme fatale character in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Brigid O’Shaughnessy
subject linked to:
Effie Perine in The Maltese Falcon
linked to: Brigid O’Shaughnessy