Selma Bouvier
E396369
Selma Bouvier is a chain-smoking, raspy-voiced DMV clerk and Marge Simpson’s cynical sister on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Selma Bouvier canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3871240 — 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: Selma Bouvier Context triple: [The Simpsons, supportingCharacter, Selma Bouvier]
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A.
Laura Chase
Laura Chase is a central, enigmatic figure in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin," whose life and mysterious death profoundly shape the story’s layered narrative.
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B.
Louise Tracy
Louise Tracy is the daughter of acclaimed American actor Spencer Tracy.
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C.
Caroline McAuliffe
Caroline McAuliffe is the daughter of Christa McAuliffe, the teacher and astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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D.
Ja'net DuBois
Ja'net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the iconic TV theme song "Movin' On Up."
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E.
Delphine Lasalle
Delphine Lasalle is a French intelligence agent and key supporting character in the action spy film "Atomic Blonde," known for her vulnerability and romantic involvement with the protagonist, Lorraine Broughton.
- 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: Selma Bouvier Target entity description: Selma Bouvier is a chain-smoking, raspy-voiced DMV clerk and Marge Simpson’s cynical sister on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
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A.
Laura Chase
Laura Chase is a central, enigmatic figure in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin," whose life and mysterious death profoundly shape the story’s layered narrative.
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B.
Louise Tracy
Louise Tracy is the daughter of acclaimed American actor Spencer Tracy.
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C.
Caroline McAuliffe
Caroline McAuliffe is the daughter of Christa McAuliffe, the teacher and astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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D.
Ja'net DuBois
Ja'net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the iconic TV theme song "Movin' On Up."
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E.
Delphine Lasalle
Delphine Lasalle is a French intelligence agent and key supporting character in the action spy film "Atomic Blonde," known for her vulnerability and romantic involvement with the protagonist, Lorraine Broughton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Selma Bouvier Description of subject: Selma Bouvier is a chain-smoking, raspy-voiced DMV clerk and Marge Simpson’s cynical sister on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Simpson"
subject linked to:
The Simpsons episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
subject linked to:
"Selma's Choice"
subject linked to:
"Selma's Choice"
subject linked to:
The Simpsons episode "Flaming Moe’s"
subject linked to:
The Simpsons episode "Krusty Gets Busted"
subject linked to:
"The Burns Cage"