Mrs. Emily Upjohn
E887476
Mrs. Emily Upjohn is a wealthy, eccentric widow and comic foil portrayed by Margaret Dumont in the Marx Brothers film "A Day at the Races."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Emily Upjohn canonical | 3 |
| Mrs. Upjohn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10812540 — 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: Mrs. Emily Upjohn Context triple: [A Day at the Races, featuresCharacter, Mrs. Emily Upjohn]
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A.
Mrs. Otis
Mrs. Otis is a practical, no-nonsense American woman in Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost,” known for her modern, skeptical attitude toward the supernatural.
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B.
Eunice Harper Higgins
Eunice Harper Higgins is a high-strung, melodramatic daughter in the Harper family and a central comedic figure on the television sitcom "Mama’s Family."
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C.
Eunice Edwards
Eunice Edwards was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of the prominent religious figure Sarah Pierpont Edwards and theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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D.
Phyllis Ames
Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
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E.
Margaret Sexton
Margaret Sexton was the wife of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, a prominent figure in the Spanish–American War.
- 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: Mrs. Emily Upjohn Target entity description: Mrs. Emily Upjohn is a wealthy, eccentric widow and comic foil portrayed by Margaret Dumont in the Marx Brothers film "A Day at the Races."
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A.
Mrs. Otis
Mrs. Otis is a practical, no-nonsense American woman in Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost,” known for her modern, skeptical attitude toward the supernatural.
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B.
Eunice Harper Higgins
Eunice Harper Higgins is a high-strung, melodramatic daughter in the Harper family and a central comedic figure on the television sitcom "Mama’s Family."
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C.
Eunice Edwards
Eunice Edwards was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of the prominent religious figure Sarah Pierpont Edwards and theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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D.
Phyllis Ames
Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
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E.
Margaret Sexton
Margaret Sexton was the wife of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, a prominent figure in the Spanish–American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Day at the Races ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Marx Brothers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | A Day at the Races ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Mrs. Emily Upjohn ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
eccentric
ⓘ
wealthy ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | widow ⓘ |
| hasRole | comic foil ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| partOf | Marx Brothers film characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Margaret Dumont ⓘ |
| portrays | Mrs. Emily Upjohn ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Emily Upjohn Description of subject: Mrs. Emily Upjohn is a wealthy, eccentric widow and comic foil portrayed by Margaret Dumont in the Marx Brothers film "A Day at the Races."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mrs. Emily Upjohn
subject linked to:
Mrs. Emily Upjohn
subject linked to:
Mrs. Emily Upjohn