Lolly Willowes
E514385
Lolly Willowes is a 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that follows an English spinster who escapes her oppressive family life by moving to the countryside and embracing witchcraft as a form of female independence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lolly Willowes canonical | 2 |
| Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364110 — 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: Lolly Willowes Context triple: [Sylvia Townsend Warner, notableWork, Lolly Willowes]
-
A.
Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its dark psychological themes and tragic exploration of obsession and deceit.
-
B.
Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
-
C.
The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores the nature of good and evil through the moral dilemmas faced by a small village and a young woman.
-
D.
Vile Bodies
Vile Bodies is a satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh that portrays the reckless, hedonistic lifestyle of England’s interwar “Bright Young Things.”
-
E.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent thriller film widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock’s first true suspense masterpiece, centering on a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer.
- 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: Lolly Willowes Target entity description: Lolly Willowes is a 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that follows an English spinster who escapes her oppressive family life by moving to the countryside and embracing witchcraft as a form of female independence.
-
A.
Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its dark psychological themes and tragic exploration of obsession and deceit.
-
B.
Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
-
C.
The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores the nature of good and evil through the moral dilemmas faced by a small village and a young woman.
-
D.
Vile Bodies
Vile Bodies is a satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh that portrays the reckless, hedonistic lifestyle of England’s interwar “Bright Young Things.”
-
E.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent thriller film widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock’s first true suspense masterpiece, centering on a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationStatus | adapted for radio ⓘ |
| author | Sylvia Townsend Warner ⓘ |
| centralConflict | individual freedom versus family expectations ⓘ |
| centralMotif | witchcraft as liberation ⓘ |
| characterTypeOfProtagonist | spinster ⓘ |
| containsElement |
supernatural pact with the devil
ⓘ
witches' sabbath ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed for its portrayal of female autonomy ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy fiction
ⓘ
feminist literature ⓘ novel ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman
ⓘ
linked to:
Lolly Willowes
|
| hasCharacter |
Caroline Willowes
ⓘ
Henry Willowes ⓘ Laura Willowes ⓘ Titus ⓘ |
| influenced | later feminist fantasy literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Laura Willowes ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | early feminist themes in 20th-century British fiction ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeInAuthorCareer | Sylvia Townsend Warner's first published novel ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An English spinster escapes her oppressive family by moving to the countryside and embracing witchcraft. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Laura Willowes ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1926 ⓘ |
| publisher | Chatto & Windus ⓘ |
| setting |
Chiltern Hills
ⓘ
England ⓘ London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| theme |
female independence
ⓘ
freedom from family obligations ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ rural life ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ spinsterhood ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ women and power ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Lolly Willowes Description of subject: Lolly Willowes is a 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that follows an English spinster who escapes her oppressive family life by moving to the countryside and embracing witchcraft as a form of female independence.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lolly Willowes