Countess Cathleen
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Countess Cathleen is the self-sacrificing noble heroine of W. B. Yeats’s verse drama, who offers her soul to save her famine-stricken people.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Countess Cathleen canonical | 1 |
| The Countess Cathleen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767443 — 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: Countess Cathleen Context triple: [The Countess Cathleen, featuresCharacter, Countess Cathleen]
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A.
Moira O’Hara
Moira O’Hara is a central ghostly housemaid character in the horror anthology series American Horror Story, known for appearing differently to men and women and embodying themes of desire, guilt, and tragedy.
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B.
Leonora O’Reilly
Leonora O’Reilly was an American labor organizer and suffragist who became a prominent figure in the early 20th-century women’s rights and labor movements.
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C.
Lady of Clare
Lady of Clare was the noble title held by Elizabeth de Clare, a prominent 14th-century English heiress and philanthropist associated with the powerful de Clare family.
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D.
Ruth Clifford
Ruth Clifford was an American actress and voice artist best known for providing the voice of Disney’s Daisy Duck in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Carmen Mackenna
Carmen Mackenna was a 19th-century Chilean woman best known as the mother of prominent historian and politician Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna.
- 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: Countess Cathleen Target entity description: Countess Cathleen is the self-sacrificing noble heroine of W. B. Yeats’s verse drama, who offers her soul to save her famine-stricken people.
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A.
Moira O’Hara
Moira O’Hara is a central ghostly housemaid character in the horror anthology series American Horror Story, known for appearing differently to men and women and embodying themes of desire, guilt, and tragedy.
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B.
Leonora O’Reilly
Leonora O’Reilly was an American labor organizer and suffragist who became a prominent figure in the early 20th-century women’s rights and labor movements.
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C.
Lady of Clare
Lady of Clare was the noble title held by Elizabeth de Clare, a prominent 14th-century English heiress and philanthropist associated with the powerful de Clare family.
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D.
Ruth Clifford
Ruth Clifford was an American actress and voice artist best known for providing the voice of Disney’s Daisy Duck in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Carmen Mackenna
Carmen Mackenna was a 19th-century Chilean woman best known as the mother of prominent historian and politician Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatic character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ heroine ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Countess Cathleen
ⓘ
linked to:
Countess Cathleen
|
| associatedWith | Irish famine setting ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorInterest | Yeats’s exploration of Irish myth and spirituality ⓘ |
| centralConflict | temptation by demonic merchants ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
redemption
ⓘ
salvation of others at personal cost ⓘ self‑sacrifice ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charitable
ⓘ
compassionate ⓘ noble ⓘ pious ⓘ self‑sacrificing ⓘ |
| createdBy |
W. B. Yeats
ⓘ
linked to:
W.B. Yeats
|
| ethicalDilemma | trades her own salvation for her people’s survival ⓘ |
| faces | famine in her land ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreContext | verse drama ⓘ |
| influencesThemeOf | conflict between material and spiritual values ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkContext | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | Irish Literary Revival ⓘ |
| moralSignificance |
embodiment of Christian charity
ⓘ
martyr‑like figure ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | desire to save her people ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | tests the power of love and sacrifice against evil ⓘ |
| narrativeOutcomeRelation | achieves spiritual salvation despite selling her soul ⓘ |
| nationalLiteraryContext | Irish literature ⓘ |
| offers | her soul ⓘ |
| opposedBy | demonic merchants ⓘ |
| purposeOfOffer | to save her famine‑stricken people ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Christianity ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
protagonist
ⓘ
title character ⓘ |
| saves | her tenants ⓘ |
| settingContext | rural Ireland ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| socialStatus | countess ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
noble sacrifice
ⓘ
spiritual generosity ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | a time of great famine ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Countess Cathleen Description of subject: Countess Cathleen is the self-sacrificing noble heroine of W. B. Yeats’s verse drama, who offers her soul to save her famine-stricken people.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Countess Cathleen