Tulliver
E1019903
Tulliver is the surname of the central family in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," including the protagonist Maggie Tulliver.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tulliver canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12884833 — 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: Tulliver Context triple: [Maggie Tulliver, familyName, 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.
Mrs. Tulliver
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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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.
Penelope Longstreet
Penelope Longstreet is a tightly wound, idealistic Brooklyn mother whose escalating conflict with another couple drives the darkly comedic drama in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage."
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E.
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.
- 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: Tulliver Target entity description: Tulliver is the surname of the central family in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," including the protagonist Maggie 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.
Mrs. Tulliver
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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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.
Penelope Longstreet
Penelope Longstreet is a tightly wound, idealistic Brooklyn mother whose escalating conflict with another couple drives the darkly comedic drama in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLiteraryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry | England ⓘ |
| associatedWithSetting |
St. Ogg’s
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Ogg's
|
| centralFamilyIn | The Mill on the Floss ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Eliot ⓘ |
| familyNameOfFictionalCharacter |
Maggie Tulliver
ⓘ
Mr. Tulliver ⓘ Mrs. Tulliver ⓘ Tom Tulliver ⓘ |
| fictionalContext | 19th-century provincial English town ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Mill on the Floss
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| hasFictionalOccupationAssociation | milling ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Maggie Tulliver
ⓘ
Tom Tulliver ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| plotRole | central family around which the narrative revolves ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
economic hardship
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education ⓘ family conflict ⓘ gender roles ⓘ loyalty ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| usedInWork | The Mill on the Floss ⓘ |
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: Tulliver Description of subject: Tulliver is the surname of the central family in George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," including the protagonist Maggie Tulliver.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is Tom Tulliver's sister