Halie
E809104
Halie is a central character in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," serving as the deeply religious yet morally compromised matriarch whose denial and hypocrisy help conceal the family's dark secrets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Halie canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592646 — 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: Halie Context triple: [Buried Child, hasCharacter, Halie]
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A.
Otelia
Otelia is a feminine given name of likely Latin origin, used in various cultures as a personal first name.
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B.
Helen O'Loy
Helen O'Loy is a classic science fiction short story about a robot woman and human love, written by American author Lester del Rey.
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C.
Rowetta
Rowetta is an English singer best known as the powerful-voiced female vocalist for the Madchester band Happy Mondays.
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D.
Nerissa
Nerissa is a witty and loyal lady-in-waiting to Portia in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," known for her intelligence, humor, and role in the play’s romantic subplots.
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E.
Pauletta
Pauletta is a feminine given name, typically considered a diminutive or variant of Paula or Pauline.
- 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: Halie Target entity description: Halie is a central character in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," serving as the deeply religious yet morally compromised matriarch whose denial and hypocrisy help conceal the family's dark secrets.
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A.
Otelia
Otelia is a feminine given name of likely Latin origin, used in various cultures as a personal first name.
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B.
Helen O'Loy
Helen O'Loy is a classic science fiction short story about a robot woman and human love, written by American author Lester del Rey.
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C.
Rowetta
Rowetta is an English singer best known as the powerful-voiced female vocalist for the Madchester band Happy Mondays.
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D.
Nerissa
Nerissa is a witty and loyal lady-in-waiting to Portia in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," known for her intelligence, humor, and role in the play’s romantic subplots.
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E.
Pauletta
Pauletta is a feminine given name, typically considered a diminutive or variant of Paula or Pauline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Buried Child ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
denial
ⓘ
family disintegration ⓘ religious hypocrisy ⓘ violence and guilt ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
denying reality
ⓘ
hypocritical ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| dialogueForm | spoken theatre ⓘ |
| familyRole | matriarch ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceWork | 1978 premiere of "Buried Child" ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
American drama
ⓘ
family tragedy ⓘ |
| hasReligion |
Christianity (implied)
ⓘ
linked to:
Christianity
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| moralCharacter | morally compromised ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | conceals the family’s dark secrets ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Ansel
ⓘ
Bradley ⓘ Tilden ⓘ |
| religiousOrientation | deeply religious ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character in the play "Buried Child" ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | the family farmhouse in Illinois ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Dodge ⓘ |
| timeOfStory | post-Vietnam 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: Halie Description of subject: Halie is a central character in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," serving as the deeply religious yet morally compromised matriarch whose denial and hypocrisy help conceal the family's dark secrets.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.