Corrine Quinn
E501889
Corrine Quinn is a key character in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," known for her role in the Underground Railroad–like resistance against slavery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Corrine Quinn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5186930 — 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: Corrine Quinn Context triple: [The Water Dancer, notableCharacter, Corrine Quinn]
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A.
Connie Snyder
Connie Snyder is an American philanthropist and co-founder of the Ballmer Group, known for her work supporting children’s welfare, education, and social services.
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B.
Cynthia Murphy
Cynthia Murphy is a central maternal character in the musical "Dear Evan Hansen," known as the caring but emotionally strained mother of Connor and Zoe Murphy.
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C.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick is an American Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Michigan and was the first African American woman elected to Congress from the state.
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D.
Dawn Clark Netsch
Dawn Clark Netsch was an American lawyer, law professor, and pioneering Illinois politician who became the first woman elected to statewide executive office in Illinois as comptroller and was known for her advocacy of government ethics and tax reform.
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E.
Christine Collins
Christine Collins was a real-life Los Angeles mother whose 1928 fight against police corruption and search for her missing son became the basis for the film "Changeling."
- 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: Corrine Quinn Target entity description: Corrine Quinn is a key character in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," known for her role in the Underground Railroad–like resistance against slavery.
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A.
Connie Snyder
Connie Snyder is an American philanthropist and co-founder of the Ballmer Group, known for her work supporting children’s welfare, education, and social services.
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B.
Cynthia Murphy
Cynthia Murphy is a central maternal character in the musical "Dear Evan Hansen," known as the caring but emotionally strained mother of Connor and Zoe Murphy.
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C.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick is an American Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Michigan and was the first African American woman elected to Congress from the state.
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D.
Dawn Clark Netsch
Dawn Clark Netsch was an American lawyer, law professor, and pioneering Illinois politician who became the first woman elected to statewide executive office in Illinois as comptroller and was known for her advocacy of government ethics and tax reform.
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E.
Christine Collins
Christine Collins was a real-life Los Angeles mother whose 1928 fight against police corruption and search for her missing son became the basis for the film "Changeling."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Water Dancer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Underground Railroad
ⓘ
linked to:
Underground Railroad routes
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| characterType | abolitionist ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Ta-Nehisi Coates ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Water Dancer ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
historical fantasy
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ |
| hasAllegianceTo | anti-slavery resistance ⓘ |
| hasFictionalTimePeriod | antebellum era ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Underground Railroad–like network
ⓘ
resistance against slavery ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in clandestine anti-slavery operations
ⓘ
strategic role in liberation efforts ⓘ |
| partOf | The Water Dancer characters ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 2019 ⓘ |
| roleInWork | key character ⓘ |
| themeInvolving |
freedom
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memory ⓘ resistance ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
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: Corrine Quinn Description of subject: Corrine Quinn is a key character in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," known for her role in the Underground Railroad–like resistance against slavery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.