Rommely
E1045128
Rommely is the surname of the fictional Rommely family featured in Betty Smith’s novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rommely canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13500196 — 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: Rommely Context triple: [Evie Rommely, familyName, Rommely]
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A.
Romm
Romm is a surname most notably associated with Soviet film director and screenwriter Mikhail Romm.
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B.
Romilda
Romilda is a principal female character in Handel’s opera "Serse," known for being the object of the title character’s romantic pursuit and for her own love for another man.
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C.
Ramel
Ramel is a Swedish surname most notably associated with the entertainer and composer Povel Ramel.
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D.
Romita
Romita is a town in the Mexican state of Guanajuato that serves as the administrative and population center of the surrounding Romita Municipality.
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E.
Marzelline
Marzelline is a character in Beethoven's opera "Fidelio," portrayed as the jailer Rocco’s daughter who becomes romantically entangled with the disguised heroine.
- 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: Rommely Target entity description: Rommely is the surname of the fictional Rommely family featured in Betty Smith’s novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
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A.
Romm
Romm is a surname most notably associated with Soviet film director and screenwriter Mikhail Romm.
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B.
Romilda
Romilda is a principal female character in Handel’s opera "Serse," known for being the object of the title character’s romantic pursuit and for her own love for another man.
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C.
Ramel
Ramel is a Swedish surname most notably associated with the entertainer and composer Povel Ramel.
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D.
Romita
Romita is a town in the Mexican state of Guanajuato that serves as the administrative and population center of the surrounding Romita Municipality.
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E.
Marzelline
Marzelline is a character in Beethoven's opera "Fidelio," portrayed as the jailer Rocco’s daughter who becomes romantically entangled with the disguised heroine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family name
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literary character family ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Evie Rommely
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Francie Nolan ⓘ Katie Rommely ⓘ Mary Rommely ⓘ Sissy Rommely ⓘ |
| createdBy | Betty Smith ⓘ |
| familyNameOf | Rommely family ⓘ |
| hasFictionalEthnicBackground | Austro-Hungarian (immigrant) ⓘ |
| hasThemeAssociation |
education and aspiration
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family resilience ⓘ immigrant experience ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English-language literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | immigrant family background of protagonist ⓘ |
| publicationContextOfWork |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (published 1943)
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linked to:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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| settingContext | Williamsburg, Brooklyn ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| usedAs | family surname of key supporting characters in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ⓘ |
| workGenreContext |
American realist fiction
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coming-of-age novel ⓘ |
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: Rommely Description of subject: Rommely is the surname of the fictional Rommely family featured in Betty Smith’s novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.