Úrsula Iguarán
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Úrsula Iguarán is the resilient matriarch of the Buendía family in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," embodying endurance, moral authority, and the continuity of the family across generations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Úrsula Iguarán canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T834380 — 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: Úrsula Iguarán Context triple: [One Hundred Years of Solitude, mainCharacter, Úrsula Iguarán]
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A.
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist best known for works like "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" and "In the Time of the Butterflies," which explore themes of identity, exile, and cultural heritage.
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B.
Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist and screenwriter best known for her magical realist novel "Like Water for Chocolate," which blends romance, family saga, and culinary tradition.
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C.
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer renowned for her novels blending magical realism with political and personal history, such as "The House of the Spirits."
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D.
Magdalena Echenique Rozas
Magdalena Echenique Rozas was a Chilean woman best known as the mother of Sebastián Piñera, the businessman and politician who served twice as President of Chile.
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E.
Lolita Pulido
Lolita Pulido is the spirited young Californio noblewoman who serves as Don Diego Vega’s love interest in Johnston McCulley’s Zorro stories, notably in "The Mark of Zorro."
- 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: Úrsula Iguarán Target entity description: Úrsula Iguarán is the resilient matriarch of the Buendía family in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," embodying endurance, moral authority, and the continuity of the family across generations.
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A.
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist best known for works like "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" and "In the Time of the Butterflies," which explore themes of identity, exile, and cultural heritage.
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B.
Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist and screenwriter best known for her magical realist novel "Like Water for Chocolate," which blends romance, family saga, and culinary tradition.
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C.
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer renowned for her novels blending magical realism with political and personal history, such as "The House of the Spirits."
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D.
Magdalena Echenique Rozas
Magdalena Echenique Rozas was a Chilean woman best known as the mother of Sebastián Piñera, the businessman and politician who served twice as President of Chile.
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E.
Lolita Pulido
Lolita Pulido is the spirited young Californio noblewoman who serves as Don Diego Vega’s love interest in Johnston McCulley’s Zorro stories, notably in "The Mark of Zorro."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ matriarch ⓘ |
| appearsIn | One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
family lineage
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responsibility and duty ⓘ the burden of memory ⓘ time and repetition ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritative
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enduring ⓘ morally strict ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ resilient ⓘ |
| concern | fear of a child being born with a pig’s tail ⓘ |
| creator | Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ |
| economicActivity | making and selling animal-shaped candies ⓘ |
| familyName | Iguarán ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1967 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | magic realism ⓘ |
| maintains | moral norms in the Buendía family ⓘ |
| memberOf | Buendía family ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Amaranta
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Colonel Aureliano Buendía ⓘ
linked to:
Aureliano Buendía
José Arcadio ⓘ
linked to:
José Arcadio (son of José Arcadio Buendía)
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| narrativeFunction |
anchor of realism within a magical realist setting
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connects multiple generations of the Buendía family ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Colombian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
living an exceptionally long life in the narrative
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maintaining order in the Buendía household ⓘ managing the family’s finances ⓘ opposing the family’s incestuous tendencies ⓘ |
| relativeOf |
Amaranta Úrsula
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Arcadio ⓘ Aureliano Babilonia ⓘ Aureliano Segundo ⓘ Fernanda del Carpio ⓘ José Arcadio Segundo ⓘ Rebeca ⓘ Remedios the Beauty ⓘ |
| residesIn | Macondo ⓘ |
| roleInFamily | matriarch of the Buendía family ⓘ |
| spouse | José Arcadio Buendía ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
endurance
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family continuity ⓘ moral authority ⓘ stability in Macondo ⓘ tradition ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Úrsula Iguarán Description of subject: Úrsula Iguarán is the resilient matriarch of the Buendía family in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," embodying endurance, moral authority, and the continuity of the family across generations.
Referenced by (18)
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