Jack's mother
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Jack's mother is a key supporting character in the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk," portrayed as Jack's practical and often exasperated parent who initially disapproves of his impulsive decisions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack's mother canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4086347 — 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: Jack's mother Context triple: [Jack and the Beanstalk, hasCharacter, Jack's mother]
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A.
Judy Huxtable
Judy Huxtable is a British actress and model best known for her work in the 1960s and 1970s, including appearances in film and television.
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B.
Joyce Byers
Joyce Byers is a determined and fiercely protective mother in the sci-fi horror series "Stranger Things," known for her relentless efforts to uncover the truth behind her son Will's disappearance and the supernatural events in Hawkins.
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C.
Mrs. Kirby
Mrs. Kirby is a conservative, upper-class matriarch who provides comic contrast to the eccentric Sycamore family in the play "You Can't Take It with You."
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D.
George's Mother
"George's Mother" is a naturalistic short novel by American author Stephen Crane that portrays the harsh realities of urban poverty and family conflict in late 19th-century New York.
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E.
Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Miller is a minor but pivotal character in John Patrick Shanley’s play "Doubt: A Parable," serving as the concerned mother whose conversation with Sister Aloysius deepens the play’s moral ambiguity.
- 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: Jack's mother Target entity description: Jack's mother is a key supporting character in the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk," portrayed as Jack's practical and often exasperated parent who initially disapproves of his impulsive decisions.
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A.
Judy Huxtable
Judy Huxtable is a British actress and model best known for her work in the 1960s and 1970s, including appearances in film and television.
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B.
Joyce Byers
Joyce Byers is a determined and fiercely protective mother in the sci-fi horror series "Stranger Things," known for her relentless efforts to uncover the truth behind her son Will's disappearance and the supernatural events in Hawkins.
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C.
Mrs. Kirby
Mrs. Kirby is a conservative, upper-class matriarch who provides comic contrast to the eccentric Sycamore family in the play "You Can't Take It with You."
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D.
George's Mother
"George's Mother" is a naturalistic short novel by American author Stephen Crane that portrays the harsh realities of urban poverty and family conflict in late 19th-century New York.
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E.
Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Miller is a minor but pivotal character in John Patrick Shanley’s play "Doubt: A Parable," serving as the concerned mother whose conversation with Sister Aloysius deepens the play’s moral ambiguity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fairy tale character
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fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jack and the Beanstalk ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
children's storybooks
ⓘ
film adaptations ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ printed fairy tale collections ⓘ stage adaptations ⓘ |
| associatedWith | magic beanstalk events ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cautious
ⓘ
often exasperated ⓘ practical ⓘ |
| disapprovesOf |
Jack trading the cow for magic beans
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Jack's impulsive decisions ⓘ |
| economicStatus | poor ⓘ |
| familyStructure | single parent in many versions ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | fairy tale ⓘ |
| hasRole |
mother
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supporting character ⓘ |
| livesWith | Jack ⓘ |
| moralContext | embodies caution and responsibility ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | need to provide for her family ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrasts with Jack's impulsiveness
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motivates Jack's quest through poverty and need ⓘ represents adult practicality ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | English folklore ⓘ |
| owns | a cow ⓘ |
| parentOf | Jack ⓘ |
| reactionToMagicBeans | throws the beans out of the window ⓘ |
| relationshipToJack |
authority figure
ⓘ
caregiver ⓘ |
| setting | rural countryside ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| targetAudienceContext | children's literature ⓘ |
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: Jack's mother Description of subject: Jack's mother is a key supporting character in the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk," portrayed as Jack's practical and often exasperated parent who initially disapproves of his impulsive decisions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.