Anna (Surfacing)
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Anna is a central character in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Surfacing," whose psychological unraveling and search for identity drive the book’s exploration of memory, trauma, and alienation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anna (Surfacing) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5599943 — 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: Anna (Surfacing) Context triple: [Surfacing, hasCharacter, Anna (Surfacing)]
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A.
The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter is a 2021 psychological drama film, based on Elena Ferrante’s novel and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, that explores the unsettling complexities of motherhood and female identity.
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B.
The Three Faces of a Woman
The Three Faces of a Woman is a 1965 Italian anthology film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini, and Franco Indovina, notable for featuring Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, the former Queen of Iran, in a rare acting role.
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C.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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D.
The Daughter
The Daughter is a 2015 Australian drama film, adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play "The Wild Duck," that explores buried family secrets and emotional fallout in a small town.
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E.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano is Malcolm Lowry’s acclaimed 1947 modernist novel set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, following the tragic final day of an alcoholic British consul.
- 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: Anna (Surfacing) Target entity description: Anna is a central character in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Surfacing," whose psychological unraveling and search for identity drive the book’s exploration of memory, trauma, and alienation.
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A.
The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter is a 2021 psychological drama film, based on Elena Ferrante’s novel and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, that explores the unsettling complexities of motherhood and female identity.
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B.
The Three Faces of a Woman
The Three Faces of a Woman is a 1965 Italian anthology film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini, and Franco Indovina, notable for featuring Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, the former Queen of Iran, in a rare acting role.
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C.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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D.
The Daughter
The Daughter is a 2015 Australian drama film, adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play "The Wild Duck," that explores buried family secrets and emotional fallout in a small town.
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E.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano is Malcolm Lowry’s acclaimed 1947 modernist novel set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, following the tragic final day of an alcoholic British consul.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Surfacing
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novel Surfacing ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
alienation
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gender roles ⓘ identity ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ memory ⓘ psychological unraveling ⓘ sexual politics ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| characterInBookByAuthorNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| creator | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
Canadian literature
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feminist literature ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasPsychologicalArc |
confrontation with trauma
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experience of alienation ⓘ search for identity ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | print ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
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major supporting character ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Surfacing fictional universe ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1972 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkAuthor | Margaret Atwood ⓘ |
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: Anna (Surfacing) Description of subject: Anna is a central character in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Surfacing," whose psychological unraveling and search for identity drive the book’s exploration of memory, trauma, and alienation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Anna