Kochamma
E810145
Kochamma is the family name of Baby Kochamma, a prominent character in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kochamma canonical | 1 |
| Margaret Kochamma | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9619627 — 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: Kochamma Context triple: [Baby Kochamma, familyName, Kochamma]
-
A.
Alamelu Mangamma
Alamelu Mangamma was the wife of C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent Indian independence activist and the last Governor-General of India.
-
B.
Rajathi Ammal
Rajathi Ammal is an Indian political figure and businesswoman best known as one of the wives of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.
-
C.
Krishnakumari
Krishnakumari is a Bengali literary work by 19th-century poet and dramatist Michael Madhusudan Dutt, known for its pioneering role in modern Bengali drama.
-
D.
Kumudavathi
Kumudavathi is a river in the Indian state of Karnataka that serves as a tributary of the Arkavathi River.
-
E.
Shyamala
Shyamala is an Indian-origin female given name commonly used in South Asia.
- 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: Kochamma Target entity description: Kochamma is the family name of Baby Kochamma, a prominent character in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things."
-
A.
Alamelu Mangamma
Alamelu Mangamma was the wife of C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent Indian independence activist and the last Governor-General of India.
-
B.
Rajathi Ammal
Rajathi Ammal is an Indian political figure and businesswoman best known as one of the wives of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.
-
C.
Krishnakumari
Krishnakumari is a Bengali literary work by 19th-century poet and dramatist Michael Madhusudan Dutt, known for its pioneering role in modern Bengali drama.
-
D.
Kumudavathi
Kumudavathi is a river in the Indian state of Karnataka that serves as a tributary of the Arkavathi River.
-
E.
Shyamala
Shyamala is an Indian-origin female given name commonly used in South Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The God of Small Things ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountryInFiction | India ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegionInFiction | Kerala ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arundhati Roy ⓘ |
| fictionalContext | Indian family in Kerala ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The God of Small Things (1997 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The God of Small Things
|
| hasFictionalStatus | non-real surname in literature ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Baby Kochamma ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English-language fiction ⓘ |
| usedByCharacter | Baby Kochamma ⓘ |
| usedInMedium | novel ⓘ |
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: Kochamma Description of subject: Kochamma is the family name of Baby Kochamma, a prominent character in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.