Miss Wormwood
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Miss Wormwood is Calvin’s long-suffering, strict elementary school teacher in the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," often exasperated by his antics and daydreams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miss Wormwood canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13008786 — 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: Miss Wormwood Context triple: [Calvin and Hobbes, featuresCharacter, Miss Wormwood]
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A.
Mrs. Sullen
Mrs. Sullen is a witty, unhappily married gentlewoman in George Farquhar’s Restoration comedy "The Beaux' Stratagem," embodying themes of marital discord and female frustration in 18th-century society.
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B.
Mrs. Wiggins
Mrs. Wiggins is a ditzy, slow-typing secretary character, famously portrayed by Carol Burnett in a recurring comedy sketch on her variety show.
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C.
Mrs. Wiggins
Mrs. Wiggins is a minor resident character from the fictional town of Thneedville in Dr. Seuss’s "The Lorax" universe.
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D.
Matilda Wormwood
Matilda Wormwood is the brilliant, book-loving young girl with telekinetic powers at the center of Roald Dahl’s novel and its film adaptation.
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E.
Mrs. Gloop
Mrs. Gloop is the overindulgent and doting mother of Augustus Gloop in Roald Dahl’s novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
- 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: Miss Wormwood Target entity description: Miss Wormwood is Calvin’s long-suffering, strict elementary school teacher in the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," often exasperated by his antics and daydreams.
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A.
Mrs. Sullen
Mrs. Sullen is a witty, unhappily married gentlewoman in George Farquhar’s Restoration comedy "The Beaux' Stratagem," embodying themes of marital discord and female frustration in 18th-century society.
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B.
Mrs. Wiggins
Mrs. Wiggins is a ditzy, slow-typing secretary character, famously portrayed by Carol Burnett in a recurring comedy sketch on her variety show.
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C.
Mrs. Wiggins
Mrs. Wiggins is a minor resident character from the fictional town of Thneedville in Dr. Seuss’s "The Lorax" universe.
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D.
Matilda Wormwood
Matilda Wormwood is the brilliant, book-loving young girl with telekinetic powers at the center of Roald Dahl’s novel and its film adaptation.
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E.
Mrs. Gloop
Mrs. Gloop is the overindulgent and doting mother of Augustus Gloop in Roald Dahl’s novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic strip character
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fictional character ⓘ school teacher ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Calvin and Hobbes ⓘ |
| appearsInFormat |
Sunday comic strips
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daily comic strips ⓘ |
| basedOn | Bill Watterson’s real-life teachers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Bill Watterson ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn |
Calvin and Hobbes comic strip
ⓘ
linked to:
Calvin and Hobbes
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | humor ⓘ |
| medium | newspaper comic strip ⓘ |
| nameOrigin |
Wormwood from The Screwtape Letters
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linked to:
Wormwood
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| notableFor |
attempting to maintain classroom discipline
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being exasperated by Calvin’s antics ⓘ |
| occupation | elementary school teacher ⓘ |
| oftenInteractsWith | Calvin’s classmates ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
easily exasperated
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long-suffering ⓘ serious ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | middle-aged ⓘ |
| relationshipToCalvin | teacher ⓘ |
| student | Calvin ⓘ |
| teaches | Calvin ⓘ |
| teachesAt | Calvin’s elementary school ⓘ |
| typicalActivity |
giving Calvin tests and homework
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lecturing Calvin for misbehavior ⓘ |
| universe |
Calvin and Hobbes universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Calvin and Hobbes
|
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: Miss Wormwood Description of subject: Miss Wormwood is Calvin’s long-suffering, strict elementary school teacher in the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," often exasperated by his antics and daydreams.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.