Winnie Verloc
E626546
Winnie Verloc is a central character in Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent," known as the emotionally conflicted wife of a London shopkeeper involved in anarchist terrorism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winnie Verloc canonical | 2 |
| Mrs. Verloc | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6898340 — 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: Winnie Verloc Context triple: [The Secret Agent, mainCharacter, Winnie Verloc]
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A.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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B.
Malvolia Brown
Malvolia Brown is a character in Enid Bagnold’s novel "National Velvet," known as one of Velvet Brown’s older sisters in the Brown family.
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C.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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D.
Nevil Macready
Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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E.
Agatha Runcible
Agatha Runcible is a flamboyant, hard-partying socialite in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Vile Bodies," emblematic of the reckless and hedonistic Bright Young Things of interwar London.
- 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: Winnie Verloc Target entity description: Winnie Verloc is a central character in Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent," known as the emotionally conflicted wife of a London shopkeeper involved in anarchist terrorism.
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A.
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Gussie Fink-Nottle is a shy, newt-obsessed friend of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for his timidity and comic misadventures.
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B.
Malvolia Brown
Malvolia Brown is a character in Enid Bagnold’s novel "National Velvet," known as one of Velvet Brown’s older sisters in the Brown family.
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C.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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D.
Nevil Macready
Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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E.
Agatha Runcible
Agatha Runcible is a flamboyant, hard-partying socialite in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Vile Bodies," emblematic of the reckless and hedonistic Bright Young Things of interwar London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Secret Agent ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
anarchist terrorism
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political violence ⓘ |
| caresFor | Stevie ⓘ |
| createdBy | Joseph Conrad ⓘ |
| emotionallyCharacterizedAs | emotionally conflicted ⓘ |
| familyMember | Stevie ⓘ |
| firstPublicationAppearance |
The Secret Agent (1907)
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linked to:
The Secret Agent
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| keyThemeAssociation |
gender and domesticity
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loyalty and betrayal ⓘ terrorism and the family ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modernist literature ⓘ |
| livesAbove | Verlocs shop ⓘ |
| manages | Verlocs shop ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodiment of betrayed loyalty
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focus of domestic tragedy ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | shop assistant ⓘ |
| relationshipToAdolfVerloc |
emotionally dependent
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ultimately violent ⓘ |
| residence |
London
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linked to:
London, England
|
| roleInWork |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| setting | late 19th-century London ⓘ |
| siblingOf | Stevie ⓘ |
| spouse | Adolf Verloc ⓘ |
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: Winnie Verloc Description of subject: Winnie Verloc is a central character in Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent," known as the emotionally conflicted wife of a London shopkeeper involved in anarchist terrorism.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Winnie Verloc