Michael Wormwood
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Michael Wormwood is a minor character in Roald Dahl's novel "Matilda," known as Matilda's older, dim-witted, and often cruel brother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Wormwood canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13102775 — 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: Michael Wormwood Context triple: [Matilda, character, Michael Wormwood]
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A.
Ben Harmon
Ben Harmon is a troubled psychiatrist and family man whose personal failings and attempts at redemption drive much of the psychological and supernatural drama in American Horror Story: Murder House.
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B.
Brad Alan Van Pelt
Brad Alan Van Pelt was an American professional football linebacker best known for his Pro Bowl career with the New York Giants in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Billy Williamson
Billy Williamson was an American musician best known as the steel guitarist for the pioneering rock and roll band Bill Haley & His Comets.
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D.
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
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E.
Rudy Bloom
Rudy Bloom is the deceased infant son of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," whose memory deeply affects his parents throughout the book.
- 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: Michael Wormwood Target entity description: Michael Wormwood is a minor character in Roald Dahl's novel "Matilda," known as Matilda's older, dim-witted, and often cruel brother.
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A.
Ben Harmon
Ben Harmon is a troubled psychiatrist and family man whose personal failings and attempts at redemption drive much of the psychological and supernatural drama in American Horror Story: Murder House.
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B.
Brad Alan Van Pelt
Brad Alan Van Pelt was an American professional football linebacker best known for his Pro Bowl career with the New York Giants in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Billy Williamson
Billy Williamson was an American musician best known as the steel guitarist for the pioneering rock and roll band Bill Haley & His Comets.
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D.
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
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E.
Rudy Bloom
Rudy Bloom is the deceased infant son of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," whose memory deeply affects his parents throughout the book.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Matilda ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | children's literature ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | book ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Wormwood family ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
novel "Matilda"
ⓘ
linked to:
Matilda (novel)
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| characterTrait |
dim-witted
ⓘ
often cruel ⓘ |
| creator | Roald Dahl ⓘ |
| familyName | Wormwood ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Matilda universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Matilda
|
| firstAppearance |
novel "Matilda"
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linked to:
Matilda (novel)
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Harry Wormwood
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Zinnia Wormwood ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| relationshipToMatilda | older brother ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor character ⓘ |
| sibling | Matilda Wormwood ⓘ |
| treatmentOfMatilda |
dismissive
ⓘ
unkind ⓘ |
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: Michael Wormwood Description of subject: Michael Wormwood is a minor character in Roald Dahl's novel "Matilda," known as Matilda's older, dim-witted, and often cruel brother.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.