Mrs. Gayheart
E437392
Mrs. Gayheart is a character in Willa Cather's novel "Lucy Gayheart," depicted as Lucy's mother and a figure embodying small-town Midwestern values and domestic stability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Gayheart canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423587 — 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: Mrs. Gayheart Context triple: [Lucy Gayheart, hasCharacter, Mrs. Gayheart]
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A.
Myra Breckinridge
Myra Breckinridge is a satirical novel by Gore Vidal that explores gender, sexuality, and Hollywood culture through its provocative, gender-bending title character.
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B.
Bonnie Bedelia
Bonnie Bedelia is an American actress known for her versatile film and television roles, including her performance as Holly Gennero McClane in the "Die Hard" films and as a central character in the TV drama "Parenthood."
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C.
Broomhilda von Shaft
Broomhilda von Shaft is the enslaved wife of Django and the central damsel-in-distress figure whose rescue drives the plot of Quentin Tarantino’s film "Django Unchained."
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D.
Felicia
Felicia is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "happy" or "fortunate," used in various cultures around the world.
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E.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
- 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: Mrs. Gayheart Target entity description: Mrs. Gayheart is a character in Willa Cather's novel "Lucy Gayheart," depicted as Lucy's mother and a figure embodying small-town Midwestern values and domestic stability.
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A.
Myra Breckinridge
Myra Breckinridge is a satirical novel by Gore Vidal that explores gender, sexuality, and Hollywood culture through its provocative, gender-bending title character.
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B.
Bonnie Bedelia
Bonnie Bedelia is an American actress known for her versatile film and television roles, including her performance as Holly Gennero McClane in the "Die Hard" films and as a central character in the TV drama "Parenthood."
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C.
Broomhilda von Shaft
Broomhilda von Shaft is the enslaved wife of Django and the central damsel-in-distress figure whose rescue drives the plot of Quentin Tarantino’s film "Django Unchained."
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D.
Felicia
Felicia is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "happy" or "fortunate," used in various cultures around the world.
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E.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lucy Gayheart ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | novel ⓘ |
| createdBy | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| embodies |
domestic stability
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small-town Midwestern values ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild | Lucy Gayheart ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Gayheart ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Lucy Gayheart ⓘ |
| isMotherOf | Lucy Gayheart ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
contrast to Lucy Gayheart’s aspirations
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symbol of traditional domestic life ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Lucy Gayheart universe ⓘ |
| roleInWork | mother of the protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfLifeInFiction | small Midwestern town ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Gayheart Description of subject: Mrs. Gayheart is a character in Willa Cather's novel "Lucy Gayheart," depicted as Lucy's mother and a figure embodying small-town Midwestern values and domestic stability.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.