Jan Edgecombe
E768627
Jan Edgecombe is a character in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," known as the devoted wife of prison guard Paul Edgecombe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan Edgecombe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8950838 — 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: Jan Edgecombe Context triple: [Paul Edgecombe, associatedWith, Jan Edgecombe]
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A.
Richard Edgecombe
Richard Edgecombe was a British nobleman and politician after whom Edgecombe County in North Carolina was named.
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B.
Paul Edgecombe
Paul Edgecombe is the central prison guard protagonist of Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," whose reflective narration recounts the supernatural and moral events on death row.
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C.
Edward Adrian Wilson
Edward Adrian Wilson was a British physician, naturalist, and explorer best known as the chief scientist and artist on Robert Falcon Scott’s early 20th-century Antarctic expeditions.
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D.
Richard H. Truly
Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
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E.
Ian Darwin
Ian Darwin is a software developer and author best known for his contributions to Unix, Java, and open source programming resources.
- 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: Jan Edgecombe Target entity description: Jan Edgecombe is a character in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," known as the devoted wife of prison guard Paul Edgecombe.
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A.
Richard Edgecombe
Richard Edgecombe was a British nobleman and politician after whom Edgecombe County in North Carolina was named.
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B.
Paul Edgecombe
Paul Edgecombe is the central prison guard protagonist of Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," whose reflective narration recounts the supernatural and moral events on death row.
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C.
Edward Adrian Wilson
Edward Adrian Wilson was a British physician, naturalist, and explorer best known as the chief scientist and artist on Robert Falcon Scott’s early 20th-century Antarctic expeditions.
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D.
Richard H. Truly
Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
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E.
Ian Darwin
Ian Darwin is a software developer and author best known for his contributions to Unix, Java, and open source programming resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Green Mile ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
The Green Mile (1999 film)
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linked to:
The Green Mile
|
| appearsInFormat | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Stephen King ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cold Mountain Penitentiary ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Green Mile ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Green Mile (1996 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Green Mile
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
drama
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the devoted wife of prison guard Paul Edgecombe ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bonnie Hunt ⓘ |
| relationship | wife of a prison guard on death row ⓘ |
| spouse | Paul Edgecombe ⓘ |
| supportingCharacterOf | Paul Edgecombe ⓘ |
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: Jan Edgecombe Description of subject: Jan Edgecombe is a character in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," known as the devoted wife of prison guard Paul Edgecombe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.