Hilary Small
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Hilary Small is the central protagonist of the film "Empire of Light," around whom the story’s emotional and dramatic events revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hilary Small canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11172609 — 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: Hilary Small Context triple: [Empire of Light, mainCharacter, Hilary Small]
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A.
Hilda Little
Hilda Little was one of the daughters of Louise Little, the mother of civil rights activist Malcolm X.
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B.
Hilary Wentworth
Hilary Wentworth is a character from Enid Blyton’s "St. Clare’s" school stories, portrayed as a proud and initially difficult girl whose personality softens and develops over time at the boarding school.
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C.
Holly March
Holly March is the quick-witted, resourceful young daughter of private investigator Holland March in the film "The Nice Guys."
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D.
Madeline Stanhope
Madeline Stanhope is a fictional character from Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for her beauty, manipulative charm, and scandalous reputation under her married name, Madeline Neroni.
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E.
Millicent Bloom
Millicent Bloom is the fictional daughter of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
- 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: Hilary Small Target entity description: Hilary Small is the central protagonist of the film "Empire of Light," around whom the story’s emotional and dramatic events revolve.
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A.
Hilda Little
Hilda Little was one of the daughters of Louise Little, the mother of civil rights activist Malcolm X.
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B.
Hilary Wentworth
Hilary Wentworth is a character from Enid Blyton’s "St. Clare’s" school stories, portrayed as a proud and initially difficult girl whose personality softens and develops over time at the boarding school.
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C.
Holly March
Holly March is the quick-witted, resourceful young daughter of private investigator Holland March in the film "The Nice Guys."
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D.
Madeline Stanhope
Madeline Stanhope is a fictional character from Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for her beauty, manipulative charm, and scandalous reputation under her married name, Madeline Neroni.
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E.
Millicent Bloom
Millicent Bloom is the fictional daughter of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Empire of Light ⓘ |
| associatedWith | cinema as a place of escape ⓘ |
| centralCharacterOf | Empire of Light ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Sam Mendes ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| genreContext | drama film ⓘ |
| hasCharacterArc |
confrontation with past trauma
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emotional awakening ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
healing through connection
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loneliness ⓘ mental health struggles ⓘ romantic relationship ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | largely follows her experiences ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | cinema employee ⓘ |
| partOfWorkType | character-driven drama ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Olivia Colman ⓘ |
| screenTimeImportance | primary focus ⓘ |
| settingLocation | English seaside town ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
| storyFunction |
focus of dramatic events
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focus of emotional events ⓘ |
| worksAt |
Empire Cinema (fictional)
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linked to:
Empire Cinema (in Empire of Light)
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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: Hilary Small Description of subject: Hilary Small is the central protagonist of the film "Empire of Light," around whom the story’s emotional and dramatic events revolve.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.