Mrs. Tulliver
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Mrs. Tulliver is a character in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," known as the practical, socially conscious mother of Maggie and Tom Tulliver.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Tulliver canonical | 4 |
| Mrs Tulliver | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12884579 — 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: Mrs. Tulliver Context triple: [Mr. Tulliver, hasSpouse, Mrs. Tulliver]
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Mr. Tulliver
Mr. Tulliver is the hot-tempered, proud miller and father of Maggie and Tom in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose financial ruin and stubbornness drive much of the story’s family and social conflict.
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Maggie Tulliver
Maggie Tulliver is the passionate, intelligent, and emotionally conflicted heroine of George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose struggles with family loyalty, social convention, and personal desire drive the story’s central tragedy.
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Tom Tulliver
Tom Tulliver is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," portrayed as the practical, duty-bound brother whose rigid sense of morality and responsibility contrasts with his sister Maggie’s passionate nature.
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D.
Barbara Tulliver
Barbara Tulliver is a film editor best known for her long-standing collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson on several of his acclaimed movies.
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E.
Dorothea Brooke
Dorothea Brooke is the idealistic, intellectually ambitious young heroine of George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose quest for moral purpose and meaningful work drives much of the story’s emotional and philosophical depth.
- 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: Mrs. Tulliver Target entity description: Mrs. Tulliver is a character in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," known as the practical, socially conscious mother of Maggie and Tom Tulliver.
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A.
Mr. Tulliver
Mr. Tulliver is the hot-tempered, proud miller and father of Maggie and Tom in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose financial ruin and stubbornness drive much of the story’s family and social conflict.
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B.
Maggie Tulliver
Maggie Tulliver is the passionate, intelligent, and emotionally conflicted heroine of George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose struggles with family loyalty, social convention, and personal desire drive the story’s central tragedy.
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C.
Tom Tulliver
Tom Tulliver is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," portrayed as the practical, duty-bound brother whose rigid sense of morality and responsibility contrasts with his sister Maggie’s passionate nature.
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D.
Barbara Tulliver
Barbara Tulliver is a film editor best known for her long-standing collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson on several of his acclaimed movies.
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E.
Dorothea Brooke
Dorothea Brooke is the idealistic, intellectually ambitious young heroine of George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose quest for moral purpose and meaningful work drives much of the story’s emotional and philosophical depth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Mill on the Floss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | realist novel ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| basedIn | St. Ogg's NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| caresAbout |
family social status
ⓘ
material comfort ⓘ |
| concernedWith |
Maggie Tulliver's behavior
ⓘ
Tom Tulliver's prospects ⓘ |
| creator | George Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Tulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Mill on the Floss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Mill on the Floss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Maggie Tulliver
NERFINISHED
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Tom Tulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Bessy Tulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Maggie Tulliver
NERFINISHED
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Mr. Tulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Tulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ the Dodson sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Dodson family by birth
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Tulliver family by marriage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
class-conscious
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concerned with respectability ⓘ conventional ⓘ practical ⓘ socially conscious ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| setIn | 19th-century England ⓘ |
| spouse | Mr. Tulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Tulliver Description of subject: Mrs. Tulliver is a character in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," known as the practical, socially conscious mother of Maggie and Tom Tulliver.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mrs Tulliver
subject surface form:
Maggie Tulliver
subject surface form:
Maggie Tulliver