Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in memoir)
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Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in the memoir) is the cruel, jealous wife of Louisiana plantation owner Edwin Epps in Solomon Northup’s slave narrative "Twelve Years a Slave."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in memoir) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9113664 — 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: Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in memoir) Context triple: [Edwin Epps, marriedTo, Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in memoir)]
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A.
Mama Reed
Mama Reed is an American blues singer best known for her close musical and personal association with influential blues musician Jimmy Reed.
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B.
Miss Watson
Miss Watson is a strict, religious woman who serves as Huck Finn’s guardian and represents conventional society’s moral values in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Aunt Chloe
Aunt Chloe is a fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as Uncle Tom’s devoted wife and a strong, nurturing figure within the enslaved community.
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D.
Biddy Baxter
Biddy Baxter is a British television producer best known for her long-running role as editor of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter, where she helped shape its distinctive style and legacy.
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E.
Biddy Mason
Biddy Mason was a formerly enslaved African American woman who became a prominent nurse, landowner, and philanthropist in Los Angeles, known for her legal fight for freedom and significant contributions to the city’s early development.
- 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: Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in memoir) Target entity description: Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in the memoir) is the cruel, jealous wife of Louisiana plantation owner Edwin Epps in Solomon Northup’s slave narrative "Twelve Years a Slave."
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A.
Mama Reed
Mama Reed is an American blues singer best known for her close musical and personal association with influential blues musician Jimmy Reed.
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B.
Miss Watson
Miss Watson is a strict, religious woman who serves as Huck Finn’s guardian and represents conventional society’s moral values in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Aunt Chloe
Aunt Chloe is a fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as Uncle Tom’s devoted wife and a strong, nurturing figure within the enslaved community.
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D.
Biddy Baxter
Biddy Baxter is a British television producer best known for her long-running role as editor of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter, where she helped shape its distinctive style and legacy.
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E.
Biddy Mason
Biddy Mason was a formerly enslaved African American woman who became a prominent nurse, landowner, and philanthropist in Los Angeles, known for her legal fight for freedom and significant contributions to the city’s early development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mary Epps ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Twelve Years a Slave
ⓘ
linked to:
12 Years a Slave
|
| appearsInGenre | slave narrative ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
cruelty
ⓘ
gender and power in slavery ⓘ jealousy ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| characterInWorkBy | Solomon Northup ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedBy | Solomon Northup ⓘ |
| exercisesPowerOver | enslaved people on the Epps plantation ⓘ |
| feelsJealousyToward | Patsey ⓘ |
| hasAttitudeToward | Patsey ⓘ |
| hasSocialRole | plantation mistress ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFiction | Louisiana ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | depicted through Solomon Northup’s first-person account ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
cruel
ⓘ
jealous ⓘ |
| residesAt | Epps plantation ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Edwin Epps ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1853 ⓘ |
| workSettingPeriod | pre–American Civil War era ⓘ |
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: Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in memoir) Description of subject: Mistress Epps (Mary Epps in the memoir) is the cruel, jealous wife of Louisiana plantation owner Edwin Epps in Solomon Northup’s slave narrative "Twelve Years a Slave."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.