Mother Shipton
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Mother Shipton is a hardened yet ultimately self-sacrificing prostitute and one of the exiled figures in Bret Harte’s short story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mother Shipton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12826730 — 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: Mother Shipton Context triple: [The Outcasts of Poker Flat, mainCharacter, Mother Shipton]
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A.
Hilda Gaunt
Hilda Gaunt was a British composer and orchestrator known for her work on mid-20th-century film scores, including the music for the 1949 film "Manon."
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B.
Countess Cathleen
Countess Cathleen is the self-sacrificing noble heroine of W. B. Yeats’s verse drama, who offers her soul to save her famine-stricken people.
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C.
Jane Marrowbone
Jane Marrowbone is a central character in the film "Marrowbone," around whom much of the story’s mystery and emotional tension revolves.
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D.
Mother Malkin
Mother Malkin is the powerful and malevolent witch antagonist in the fantasy film "Seventh Son."
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E.
Jennet Humfrye
Jennet Humfrye is the vengeful ghost central to Susan Hill’s gothic horror novel "The Woman in Black," haunting Eel Marsh House and the surrounding village.
- 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: Mother Shipton Target entity description: Mother Shipton is a hardened yet ultimately self-sacrificing prostitute and one of the exiled figures in Bret Harte’s short story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”
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A.
Hilda Gaunt
Hilda Gaunt was a British composer and orchestrator known for her work on mid-20th-century film scores, including the music for the 1949 film "Manon."
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B.
Countess Cathleen
Countess Cathleen is the self-sacrificing noble heroine of W. B. Yeats’s verse drama, who offers her soul to save her famine-stricken people.
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C.
Jane Marrowbone
Jane Marrowbone is a central character in the film "Marrowbone," around whom much of the story’s mystery and emotional tension revolves.
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D.
Mother Malkin
Mother Malkin is the powerful and malevolent witch antagonist in the fantasy film "Seventh Son."
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E.
Jennet Humfrye
Jennet Humfrye is the vengeful ghost central to Susan Hill’s gothic horror novel "The Woman in Black," haunting Eel Marsh House and the surrounding village.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ short story character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
American local color fiction
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Western fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Duchess
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John Oakhurst ⓘ Piney Woods ⓘ Tom Simson ⓘ Uncle Billy ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | starvation ⓘ |
| characterInWork | The Outcasts of Poker Flat ⓘ |
| createdBy | Bret Harte ⓘ |
| describedAs |
hardened
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self‑sacrificing ⓘ |
| diesIn | Sierra Nevada mountains (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| exiledFrom |
Poker Flat
ⓘ
linked to:
Poker Flat, California
|
| fictionalUniverse | The Outcasts of Poker Flat universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Outcasts of Poker Flat ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1869 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| groupAffiliation |
the outcasts of Poker Flat
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linked to:
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
|
| literaryTheme |
redemption
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self‑sacrifice ⓘ social ostracism ⓘ |
| moralArc | redeems herself through self‑sacrifice ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableAction | starves herself to save food for Piney Woods ⓘ |
| occupation | prostitute ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | one of the exiled figures from Poker Flat ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mother Shipton Description of subject: Mother Shipton is a hardened yet ultimately self-sacrificing prostitute and one of the exiled figures in Bret Harte’s short story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.