Uta
E794115
Uta is a central character in John Irving’s novel "The 158-Pound Marriage," depicted as a complex, emotionally conflicted woman involved in an experimental partner-swapping arrangement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uta canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9356583 — 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: Uta Context triple: [The 158-Pound Marriage, hasCharacter, Uta]
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A.
Hatohobei
Hatohobei is a small, remote coral island state of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, also known as Tobi.
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B.
Ukiha
Ukiha is a small city in southwestern Japan known for its rural landscapes, fruit orchards, and traditional townscapes.
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C.
Suwawa
Suwawa is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people in the northern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Shumshu
Shumshu is a small, strategically significant volcanic island at the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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E.
Yoiyama
Yoiyama is the lively evening street festival held before the main Gion Matsuri parade in Kyoto, featuring illuminated festival floats, food stalls, and traditional music.
- 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: Uta Target entity description: Uta is a central character in John Irving’s novel "The 158-Pound Marriage," depicted as a complex, emotionally conflicted woman involved in an experimental partner-swapping arrangement.
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A.
Hatohobei
Hatohobei is a small, remote coral island state of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, also known as Tobi.
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B.
Ukiha
Ukiha is a small city in southwestern Japan known for its rural landscapes, fruit orchards, and traditional townscapes.
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C.
Suwawa
Suwawa is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people in the northern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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D.
Shumshu
Shumshu is a small, strategically significant volcanic island at the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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E.
Yoiyama
Yoiyama is the lively evening street festival held before the main Gion Matsuri parade in Kyoto, featuring illuminated festival floats, food stalls, and traditional music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The 158-Pound Marriage ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | John Irving ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipType | extramarital affair ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | narrator of The 158-Pound Marriage ⓘ |
| hasRole | central character ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
complex
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emotionally conflicted ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
experimental sexual relationship
ⓘ
partner-swapping arrangement ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
explores themes of marriage and sexuality
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illustrates emotional consequences of partner-swapping ⓘ |
| workPublicationDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
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: Uta Description of subject: Uta is a central character in John Irving’s novel "The 158-Pound Marriage," depicted as a complex, emotionally conflicted woman involved in an experimental partner-swapping arrangement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.