Winifred Banks
E493859
Winifred Banks is a suffragette and the mother of the Banks children in the "Mary Poppins" stories and film adaptations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winifred Banks canonical | 21 |
| Georgie Banks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110508 — 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: Winifred Banks Context triple: [Mary Poppins, associatedWithCharacter, Winifred Banks]
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A.
Edith Millbank
Edith Millbank is a central fictional character in Benjamin Disraeli’s political novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," representing the heroine and romantic interest of the protagonist.
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B.
Dorothy Good
Dorothy Good was a young child accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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C.
Grace Petrie
Grace Petrie is a British folk singer-songwriter and political activist known for her sharp, socially conscious lyrics and frequent appearances on BBC Radio 4 comedy and current affairs programmes.
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D.
Winifred Dartie
Winifred Dartie is a character in John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga, depicted as a member of the Forsyte family whose troubled marriage and personal loyalties reflect the social and emotional constraints of upper-middle-class Victorian England.
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E.
Bertha Perkins
Bertha Perkins is one of the daughters of renowned American book editor Maxwell Perkins.
- 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: Winifred Banks Target entity description: Winifred Banks is a suffragette and the mother of the Banks children in the "Mary Poppins" stories and film adaptations.
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A.
Edith Millbank
Edith Millbank is a central fictional character in Benjamin Disraeli’s political novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," representing the heroine and romantic interest of the protagonist.
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B.
Dorothy Good
Dorothy Good was a young child accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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C.
Grace Petrie
Grace Petrie is a British folk singer-songwriter and political activist known for her sharp, socially conscious lyrics and frequent appearances on BBC Radio 4 comedy and current affairs programmes.
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D.
Winifred Dartie
Winifred Dartie is a character in John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga, depicted as a member of the Forsyte family whose troubled marriage and personal loyalties reflect the social and emotional constraints of upper-middle-class Victorian England.
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E.
Bertha Perkins
Bertha Perkins is one of the daughters of renowned American book editor Maxwell Perkins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Mary Poppins
ⓘ
Mary Poppins (1964 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins Returns ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
fantasy film
ⓘ
musical film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mrs. Banks ⓘ |
| child |
Jane Banks
ⓘ
Michael Banks ⓘ |
| createdBy | P. L. Travers ⓘ |
| familyName | Banks ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | alive ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Mary Poppins universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Poppins franchise
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Winifred ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
supporter of women's suffrage
ⓘ
upper-middle-class ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | suffragette ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Emily Mortimer
ⓘ
Glynis Johns ⓘ |
| residence | 17 Cherry Tree Lane ⓘ |
| role | mother of the Banks children ⓘ |
| setIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| spouse | George Banks ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Edwardian era ⓘ |
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: Winifred Banks Description of subject: Winifred Banks is a suffragette and the mother of the Banks children in the "Mary Poppins" stories and film adaptations.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Winifred Banks
subject linked to:
Katie Nanna in Mary Poppins
subject linked to:
Disney film Mary Poppins
subject linked to:
stage musical Mary Poppins