Edie Ochiltree
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Edie Ochiltree is a memorable beggar and veteran who serves as a moral compass and source of local wisdom in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Antiquary."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edie Ochiltree canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8767353 — 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: Edie Ochiltree Context triple: [The Antiquary, mainCharacter, Edie Ochiltree]
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A.
Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
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B.
Marsha Sutherland
Marsha Sutherland is known as the wife of pioneering computer scientist Ivan Sutherland.
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C.
Annette Kirk
Annette Kirk is an American cultural advocate and widow of conservative thinker Russell Kirk, known for promoting his intellectual legacy and traditionalist ideas through institutions such as the Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
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D.
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine is an American actress known for her warm, soulful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "Waiting to Exhale" and the TV series "Grey's Anatomy."
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E.
Eileen Paisley
Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
- 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: Edie Ochiltree Target entity description: Edie Ochiltree is a memorable beggar and veteran who serves as a moral compass and source of local wisdom in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Antiquary."
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A.
Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
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B.
Marsha Sutherland
Marsha Sutherland is known as the wife of pioneering computer scientist Ivan Sutherland.
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C.
Annette Kirk
Annette Kirk is an American cultural advocate and widow of conservative thinker Russell Kirk, known for promoting his intellectual legacy and traditionalist ideas through institutions such as the Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.
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D.
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine is an American actress known for her warm, soulful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "Waiting to Exhale" and the TV series "Grey's Anatomy."
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E.
Eileen Paisley
Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
beggar
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character in a novel ⓘ fictional character ⓘ veteran ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Antiquary ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Waverley Novels ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jonathan Oldbuck
ⓘ
Scottish coastal community ⓘ the town of Fairport ⓘ
linked to:
Fairport, New York, United States
|
| basedOn | Scottish gaberlunzie or licensed beggar ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
honest ⓘ plain-spoken ⓘ shrewd ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Walter Scott
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Walter Scott
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| firstAppearance | The Antiquary ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDateOfWork | 1816 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | historical novel ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
embodies moral conscience of the community
ⓘ
represents traditional Scottish wisdom ⓘ |
| militaryStatus | veteran ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
commentator on events
ⓘ
provider of exposition and background ⓘ |
| occupation | beggar ⓘ |
| role |
moral compass
ⓘ
source of local wisdom ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | late 18th-century Scotland ⓘ |
| socialStatus | itinerant poor ⓘ |
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: Edie Ochiltree Description of subject: Edie Ochiltree is a memorable beggar and veteran who serves as a moral compass and source of local wisdom in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Antiquary."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.