Edith
E795483
Edith is a central character in John Irving’s novel "The 158-Pound Marriage," involved in the book’s complex exploration of marriage, sexuality, and partner-swapping.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9356581 — 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: Edith Context triple: [The 158-Pound Marriage, hasCharacter, Edith]
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Edith
Edith is the full given name of American actress Edie Falco, best known for her Emmy-winning role as Carmela Soprano on the television series "The Sopranos."
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Edith
Edith was the birth name of Edith of Scotland, an Anglo-Saxon–Norman noblewoman who became Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry I.
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Edith
Edith is a central, enigmatic female character in Leonard Cohen’s novel "Beautiful Losers," embodying themes of desire, spirituality, and cultural identity.
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Edith
Edith is one of Gru’s adopted daughters in the Despicable Me franchise, recognizable by her pink hat and mischievous, tomboyish personality.
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Edith
Edith is a feminine given name of Old English origin, traditionally meaning "riches" or "blessed joy."
- 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: Edith Target entity description: Edith is a central character in John Irving’s novel "The 158-Pound Marriage," involved in the book’s complex exploration of marriage, sexuality, and partner-swapping.
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A.
Edith
Edith was the birth name of Edith of Scotland, an Anglo-Saxon–Norman noblewoman who became Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry I.
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B.
Edith
Edith is one of Gru’s adopted daughters in the Despicable Me franchise, recognizable by her pink hat and mischievous, tomboyish personality.
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C.
Edith
Edith is the full given name of American actress Edie Falco, best known for her Emmy-winning role as Carmela Soprano on the television series "The Sopranos."
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D.
Edith
Edith is a feminine given name of Old English origin, traditionally meaning "riches" or "blessed joy."
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E.
Edith
Edith is a central, enigmatic female character in Leonard Cohen’s novel "Beautiful Losers," embodying themes of desire, spirituality, and cultural identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The 158-Pound Marriage ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | John Irving ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
infidelity
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marriage ⓘ open relationships ⓘ partner-swapping ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| characterInNovelBy | John Irving ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | John Irving ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The 158-Pound Marriage universe
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linked to:
The 158-Pound Marriage
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| genreOfWork |
domestic fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
central to partner-swapping plotline
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explores complexities of marriage ⓘ explores complexities of sexual relationships ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of characters in The 158-Pound Marriage ⓘ |
| publicationFormOfWork | book ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
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: Edith Description of subject: Edith is a central character in John Irving’s novel "The 158-Pound Marriage," involved in the book’s complex exploration of marriage, sexuality, and partner-swapping.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.