Griseldis
E1002981
Griseldis is a character from a traditional European folk tale popularized in Charles Perrault’s "Tales of Mother Goose," often portrayed as a model of extreme patience and obedience in the face of cruel trials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Griseldis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12772078 — 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: Griseldis Context triple: [Tales of Mother Goose, hasPart, Griseldis]
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A.
Hjördis
Hjördis is a Scandinavian feminine given name, most notably borne by Swedish model and actress Hjördis Genberg.
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B.
Waltraute
Waltraute is one of the Valkyries in Richard Wagner’s opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, appearing prominently in the final opera Götterdämmerung.
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C.
Thjodhild
Thjodhild was a Norse woman of the Viking Age, best known as one of the earliest Christian converts in Greenland and for building the first church there.
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D.
Ingrith
Ingrith is a feminine given name, likely a variant of the Scandinavian name Ingrid.
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E.
Kriemhild
Kriemhild is a legendary Burgundian princess from Germanic heroic literature, best known from the Nibelungenlied for her tragic transformation from a loving wife into a vengeful figure seeking retribution for her husband Siegfried’s death.
- 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: Griseldis Target entity description: Griseldis is a character from a traditional European folk tale popularized in Charles Perrault’s "Tales of Mother Goose," often portrayed as a model of extreme patience and obedience in the face of cruel trials.
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A.
Hjördis
Hjördis is a Scandinavian feminine given name, most notably borne by Swedish model and actress Hjördis Genberg.
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B.
Waltraute
Waltraute is one of the Valkyries in Richard Wagner’s opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, appearing prominently in the final opera Götterdämmerung.
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C.
Thjodhild
Thjodhild was a Norse woman of the Viking Age, best known as one of the earliest Christian converts in Greenland and for building the first church there.
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D.
Ingrith
Ingrith is a feminine given name, likely a variant of the Scandinavian name Ingrid.
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E.
Kriemhild
Kriemhild is a legendary Burgundian princess from Germanic heroic literature, best known from the Nibelungenlied for her tragic transformation from a loving wife into a vengeful figure seeking retribution for her husband Siegfried’s death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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folklore character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
fairy tale
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folk tale ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Tales of Mother Goose
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The Patient Griselda ⓘ |
| associatedWithMoral |
unquestioning obedience to authority
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virtue of patience ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
long-suffering
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loyal ⓘ submissive ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | European folklore ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Tales of Mother Goose ⓘ |
| nameVariant | Griselda ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | moral exemplar ⓘ |
| notableFor |
endurance of cruel trials
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extreme patience ⓘ obedience ⓘ |
| popularizedBy |
Charles Perrault
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linked to:
Perrault
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| roleInStory |
ideal of patience
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model of wifely obedience ⓘ |
| subjectOf | traditional European folk tale ⓘ |
| theme |
marital obedience
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patience under suffering ⓘ power imbalance in marriage ⓘ |
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: Griseldis Description of subject: Griseldis is a character from a traditional European folk tale popularized in Charles Perrault’s "Tales of Mother Goose," often portrayed as a model of extreme patience and obedience in the face of cruel trials.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.