Miss Desjardin
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Miss Desjardin is the compassionate but strict gym teacher in Stephen King’s novel "Carrie," who tries to protect Carrie White and discipline bullies like Chris Hargensen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miss Desjardin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6159192 — 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: Miss Desjardin Context triple: [Chris Hargensen, conflictWith, Miss Desjardin]
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A.
Madelaine
Madelaine is a character in the Danish crime thriller film "The Salvation."
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B.
Yvette
Yvette is the given first name of the acclaimed American singer Chaka Khan.
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C.
Sylla Petit
Sylla Petit is an individual member of the Petit family, known primarily through their association with this family lineage.
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D.
Camille Roux
Camille Roux was an artist associated with the Impressionist movement who participated in the historic Impressionist exhibitions in late 19th-century France.
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E.
Caroline Deslonde
Caroline Deslonde was a 19th-century Louisiana Creole woman best known as the wife of Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard.
- 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: Miss Desjardin Target entity description: Miss Desjardin is the compassionate but strict gym teacher in Stephen King’s novel "Carrie," who tries to protect Carrie White and discipline bullies like Chris Hargensen.
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A.
Madelaine
Madelaine is a character in the Danish crime thriller film "The Salvation."
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B.
Yvette
Yvette is the given first name of the acclaimed American singer Chaka Khan.
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C.
Sylla Petit
Sylla Petit is an individual member of the Petit family, known primarily through their association with this family lineage.
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D.
Camille Roux
Camille Roux was an artist associated with the Impressionist movement who participated in the historic Impressionist exhibitions in late 19th-century France.
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E.
Caroline Deslonde
Caroline Deslonde was a 19th-century Louisiana Creole woman best known as the wife of Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Carrie ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Carrie (1974 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Carrie
|
| characterTrait |
authoritative
ⓘ
compassionate ⓘ protective ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Chris Hargensen ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| employer | Ewen High School ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Carrie universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Carrie (1974 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Carrie
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | horror ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | generally sympathetic to Carrie White ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction |
enforces detention for Chris Hargensen and other bullies
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punishes the girls who bully Carrie White in the locker room ⓘ tries to comfort Carrie White after the locker-room bullying incident ⓘ |
| occupation | gym teacher ⓘ |
| relationshipNature |
disciplinarian toward Chris Hargensen
ⓘ
teacher and reluctant protector of Carrie White ⓘ |
| relationshipTo |
Carrie White
ⓘ
Chris Hargensen ⓘ |
| settingOfWorkAppearedIn | small-town American high school ⓘ |
| workLocation | Chamberlain, Maine ⓘ |
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: Miss Desjardin Description of subject: Miss Desjardin is the compassionate but strict gym teacher in Stephen King’s novel "Carrie," who tries to protect Carrie White and discipline bullies like Chris Hargensen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.