Annie Bates
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Annie Bates is a central character in D. H. Lawrence’s short story "Odour of Chrysanthemums," depicted as a miner’s wife whose emotional journey reveals the strains and alienation within her marriage and working-class life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Annie Bates canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12774354 — 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: Annie Bates Context triple: [Odour of Chrysanthemums, featuresCharacter, Annie Bates]
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A.
Annie Douglass
Annie Douglass was a daughter of abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass and famed orator Frederick Douglass, born into a prominent African American family deeply involved in the fight against slavery and for civil rights.
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B.
Annie Roland
Annie Roland is a fictional nurse featured as a character in the American television drama series "Nurses."
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C.
Annie Reynolds
Annie Reynolds is best known as the wife of the late British broadcaster and long-time "Just a Minute" host Nicholas Parsons.
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D.
Annie James
Annie James is one of the twin sisters and main protagonists in the 1998 film "The Parent Trap," known for her refined British upbringing and clever scheme to reunite her divorced parents.
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E.
Annie Jameson
Annie Jameson was an Irish woman from the Jameson whiskey family and the mother of radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi.
- 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: Annie Bates Target entity description: Annie Bates is a central character in D. H. Lawrence’s short story "Odour of Chrysanthemums," depicted as a miner’s wife whose emotional journey reveals the strains and alienation within her marriage and working-class life.
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A.
Annie Douglass
Annie Douglass was a daughter of abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass and famed orator Frederick Douglass, born into a prominent African American family deeply involved in the fight against slavery and for civil rights.
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B.
Annie Roland
Annie Roland is a fictional nurse featured as a character in the American television drama series "Nurses."
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C.
Annie Reynolds
Annie Reynolds is best known as the wife of the late British broadcaster and long-time "Just a Minute" host Nicholas Parsons.
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D.
Annie James
Annie James is one of the twin sisters and main protagonists in the 1998 film "The Parent Trap," known for her refined British upbringing and clever scheme to reunite her divorced parents.
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E.
Annie Jameson
Annie Jameson was an Irish woman from the Jameson whiskey family and the mother of radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Odour of Chrysanthemums ⓘ |
| appearsInForm | short story ⓘ |
| associatedWithSymbol | chrysanthemums ⓘ |
| createdBy | D. H. Lawrence ⓘ |
| experiences | emotional journey of self-realization ⓘ |
| familyName | Bates ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | The English Review ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Annie ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Annie Bates Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Annie Bates
John Bates ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th-century English literature ⓘ |
| literaryRole | protagonist of Odour of Chrysanthemums ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | reveals strains of industrial working-class marriage ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | miner’s wife ⓘ |
| reactsTo | news of Walter Bates’s death in a mining accident ⓘ |
| realizes | she never truly knew her husband ⓘ |
| relationshipToWalterBates | emotionally estranged wife ⓘ |
| residesIn | English mining community ⓘ |
| socialClass | working class ⓘ |
| spouse | Walter Bates ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
death and recognition
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emotional estrangement ⓘ marital alienation ⓘ working-class life ⓘ |
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: Annie Bates Description of subject: Annie Bates is a central character in D. H. Lawrence’s short story "Odour of Chrysanthemums," depicted as a miner’s wife whose emotional journey reveals the strains and alienation within her marriage and working-class life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.