Mrs. Failing
E579900
Mrs. Failing is a wealthy, eccentric, and often domineering older woman in E. M. Forster’s novel "The Longest Journey," notable for her sharp wit and complex relationships with the younger characters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Failing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6264408 — 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: Mrs. Failing Context triple: [The Longest Journey, hasCharacter, Mrs. Failing]
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A.
Mrs. Harling
Mrs. Harling is a strong-willed, warm-hearted matron in Willa Cather’s "My Ántonia" who provides Ántonia with a lively, nurturing home in town.
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B.
Mrs. Hawkins
Mrs. Hawkins is Jim Hawkins’s practical and courageous mother in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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C.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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D.
Madame Foster
Madame Foster is the eccentric, kind-hearted elderly founder and caretaker of the whimsical residence for imaginary friends in the animated series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends."
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E.
Mrs. Wiggins
Mrs. Wiggins is a ditzy, slow-typing secretary character, famously portrayed by Carol Burnett in a recurring comedy sketch on her variety show.
- 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: Mrs. Failing Target entity description: Mrs. Failing is a wealthy, eccentric, and often domineering older woman in E. M. Forster’s novel "The Longest Journey," notable for her sharp wit and complex relationships with the younger characters.
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A.
Mrs. Harling
Mrs. Harling is a strong-willed, warm-hearted matron in Willa Cather’s "My Ántonia" who provides Ántonia with a lively, nurturing home in town.
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B.
Mrs. Hawkins
Mrs. Hawkins is Jim Hawkins’s practical and courageous mother in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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C.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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D.
Madame Foster
Madame Foster is the eccentric, kind-hearted elderly founder and caretaker of the whimsical residence for imaginary friends in the animated series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends."
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E.
Mrs. Wiggins
Mrs. Wiggins is a ditzy, slow-typing secretary character, famously portrayed by Carol Burnett in a recurring comedy sketch on her variety show.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Longest Journey ⓘ |
| belongsToWorkLanguage | English ⓘ |
| createdBy | E. M. Forster ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | The Longest Journey ⓘ |
| hasAgeDescriptor | older woman ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasMedium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction |
influences the lives of younger characters
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provides social and moral contrast ⓘ |
| hasPersonality |
controlling
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manipulative ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ |
| hasPublicationContext | early 20th-century British literature ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipType | complex relationships with younger characters ⓘ |
| hasRole | aunt figure to younger characters ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus | upper class ⓘ |
| hasSpeechStyle |
cutting
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witty ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
domineering
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eccentric ⓘ sharp-witted ⓘ wealthy ⓘ |
| isCharacterInGenre | Edwardian novel ⓘ |
| isSetInWorkType | English novel ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Failing Description of subject: Mrs. Failing is a wealthy, eccentric, and often domineering older woman in E. M. Forster’s novel "The Longest Journey," notable for her sharp wit and complex relationships with the younger characters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.