Bird’s wife
E828505
Bird’s wife is a central yet largely offstage character in Kenzaburō Ōe’s novel "A Personal Matter," whose difficult childbirth and medical crisis catalyze the protagonist Bird’s moral and emotional turmoil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bird’s wife canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9892974 — 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: Bird’s wife Context triple: [A Personal Matter, hasCharacter, Bird’s wife]
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A.
Camilla Sparv
Camilla Sparv is a Swedish actress known for her film and television work in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Lark
Lark was a famous overnight passenger train that ran between San Francisco and Los Angeles, known for its streamlined design and sleeper service.
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C.
Lark
Lark is a brand of cigarettes historically marketed by Liggett & Myers and known for its distinctive charcoal filter.
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D.
Jenny Wren
"Jenny Wren" is a Paul McCartney song, styled as an acoustic, Beatlesque ballad, from his 2005 album "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard."
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E.
Sparrow
Sparrow is a recurring character in Alison Bechdel’s long-running comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For," known for her involvement in the strip’s interconnected lesbian and queer community.
- 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: Bird’s wife Target entity description: Bird’s wife is a central yet largely offstage character in Kenzaburō Ōe’s novel "A Personal Matter," whose difficult childbirth and medical crisis catalyze the protagonist Bird’s moral and emotional turmoil.
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A.
Camilla Sparv
Camilla Sparv is a Swedish actress known for her film and television work in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Lark
Lark was a famous overnight passenger train that ran between San Francisco and Los Angeles, known for its streamlined design and sleeper service.
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C.
Lark
Lark is a brand of cigarettes historically marketed by Liggett & Myers and known for its distinctive charcoal filter.
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D.
Jenny Wren
"Jenny Wren" is a Paul McCartney song, styled as an acoustic, Beatlesque ballad, from his 2005 album "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard."
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E.
Sparrow
Sparrow is a recurring character in Alison Bechdel’s long-running comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For," known for her involvement in the strip’s interconnected lesbian and queer community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearanceType | mostly offstage ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Personal Matter ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
difficult childbirth
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medical crisis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| createdBy | Kenzaburō Ōe ⓘ |
| familyRole | mother ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | A Personal Matter ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
literary fiction
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psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasChild | Bird’s newborn son ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Bird ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
catalyst for protagonist’s emotional turmoil
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catalyst for protagonist’s moral crisis ⓘ central offstage character ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfWork | Japanese ⓘ |
| publicationContext | postwar Japanese literature ⓘ |
| settingOfFictionalLife | Tokyo ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Bird ⓘ |
| temporalSetting | 1960s Japan ⓘ |
| thematicAssociation |
disability
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family crisis ⓘ moral choice ⓘ parenthood ⓘ responsibility ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Kenzaburō Ōe ⓘ |
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: Bird’s wife Description of subject: Bird’s wife is a central yet largely offstage character in Kenzaburō Ōe’s novel "A Personal Matter," whose difficult childbirth and medical crisis catalyze the protagonist Bird’s moral and emotional turmoil.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.