Adele August
E1046166
Adele August is the impulsive, restless mother in Mona Simpson’s novel "Anywhere but Here," known for uprooting her daughter’s life in pursuit of her own dreams and fantasies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adele August canonical | 8 |
| Adele August (novel character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13547987 — 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: Adele August Context triple: [Anywhere but Here, mainCharacter, Adele August]
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A.
Adele Mara
Adele Mara was an American film and television actress and singer active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, known for her roles in numerous Hollywood Westerns and adventure films.
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B.
Adele Marie Austerlitz
Adele Marie Austerlitz, better known as Adele Astaire, was an American dancer and entertainer famed for her vaudeville and Broadway performances alongside her brother Fred Astaire in the early 20th century.
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C.
Adele Georgiana Gianopoulos
Adele Georgiana Gianopoulos is the daughter of American actress and author Molly Ringwald.
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D.
Adele Casagrande
Adele Casagrande was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the luxury fashion house Fendi.
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E.
Adele Sherbert
Adele Sherbert was the Seventh-day Adventist worker whose denial of unemployment benefits for refusing to work on her Sabbath led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court religious freedom case Sherbert v. Verner.
- 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: Adele August Target entity description: Adele August is the impulsive, restless mother in Mona Simpson’s novel "Anywhere but Here," known for uprooting her daughter’s life in pursuit of her own dreams and fantasies.
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A.
Adele Mara
Adele Mara was an American film and television actress and singer active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, known for her roles in numerous Hollywood Westerns and adventure films.
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B.
Adele Marie Austerlitz
Adele Marie Austerlitz, better known as Adele Astaire, was an American dancer and entertainer famed for her vaudeville and Broadway performances alongside her brother Fred Astaire in the early 20th century.
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C.
Adele Georgiana Gianopoulos
Adele Georgiana Gianopoulos is the daughter of American actress and author Molly Ringwald.
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D.
Adele Casagrande
Adele Casagrande was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the luxury fashion house Fendi.
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E.
Adele Sherbert
Adele Sherbert was the Seventh-day Adventist worker whose denial of unemployment benefits for refusing to work on her Sabbath led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court religious freedom case Sherbert v. Verner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ novel ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Anywhere but Here (1999 film) ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Anywhere but Here ⓘ |
| author | Mona Simpson ⓘ |
| basedOn | Anywhere but Here ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
idealistic
ⓘ
immature ⓘ impulsive ⓘ manipulative ⓘ narcissistic ⓘ restless ⓘ romantic ⓘ self-absorbed ⓘ |
| createdBy | Mona Simpson ⓘ |
| familyName | August ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Anywhere but Here universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Anywhere but Here ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Adele ⓘ |
| hasChild | Ann August ⓘ |
| hasRole | mother ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| motivation |
ambition for social mobility
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desire for a better life ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
central protagonist
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source of conflict ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction |
moves from Wisconsin to California
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repeatedly uproots her daughter’s life ⓘ |
| occupation | aspiring actress ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Susan Sarandon ⓘ |
| pursues |
fantasies of a glamorous life
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her own dreams ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithAnnAugust | mother-daughter ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Ann August ⓘ |
| settingAssociatedWith |
California
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linked to:
California (state)
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
American dream
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identity and self-invention ⓘ mother-daughter relationships ⓘ |
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: Adele August Description of subject: Adele August is the impulsive, restless mother in Mona Simpson’s novel "Anywhere but Here," known for uprooting her daughter’s life in pursuit of her own dreams and fantasies.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Adele August – Susan Sarandon
linked to: Adele August
subject linked to:
Adele August – Susan Sarandon
subject linked to:
Adele August – Susan Sarandon
subject linked to:
Ann August – Natalie Portman