Jo March
E114284
Jo March is the fiercely independent, imaginative, and strong-willed second March sister who dreams of becoming a writer in Louisa May Alcott’s classic story "Little Women."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jo March canonical | 57 |
| Josephine March | 2 |
| Jo March in Little Women | 1 |
| Jo March in Little Women (1994 film) | 1 |
| Jo March is the second eldest | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T977011 — 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: Jo March Context triple: [Little Women (1994 film), character, Jo March]
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A.
Amy March
Amy March is the youngest of the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women," known for her artistic ambitions, vanity, and eventual maturation into a poised and compassionate woman.
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B.
Alice Wright Mann
Alice Wright Mann was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) at its launching.
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C.
Abigail May Alcott
Abigail May Alcott was a 19th-century American social worker, reformer, and abolitionist best known as the mother and moral influence of author Louisa May Alcott.
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D.
Abigail
Abigail is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father is joy," historically popular in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Anna Bronson Alcott
Anna Bronson Alcott was an American actress and the eldest sister of author Louisa May Alcott, who partly inspired the character of Meg March in "Little Women."
- 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: Jo March Target entity description: Jo March is the fiercely independent, imaginative, and strong-willed second March sister who dreams of becoming a writer in Louisa May Alcott’s classic story "Little Women."
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A.
Amy March
Amy March is the youngest of the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women," known for her artistic ambitions, vanity, and eventual maturation into a poised and compassionate woman.
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B.
Alice Wright Mann
Alice Wright Mann was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) at its launching.
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C.
Abigail May Alcott
Abigail May Alcott was a 19th-century American social worker, reformer, and abolitionist best known as the mother and moral influence of author Louisa May Alcott.
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D.
Abigail
Abigail is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father is joy," historically popular in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Anna Bronson Alcott
Anna Bronson Alcott was an American actress and the eldest sister of author Louisa May Alcott, who partly inspired the character of Meg March in "Little Women."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Good Wives
ⓘ
Jo's Boys ⓘ
surface form:
Jo’s Boys
Little Men ⓘ Little Women ⓘ |
| aspiration | to become a successful author ⓘ |
| basedOn | Louisa May Alcott ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
imaginative ⓘ impulsive ⓘ independent ⓘ loyal ⓘ strong-willed ⓘ tomboyish ⓘ |
| child |
Rob Bhaer
ⓘ
Rob Bhaer ⓘ
surface form:
Teddy Bhaer
|
| closeFriend | Laurie ⓘ |
| creator | Louisa May Alcott ⓘ |
| familyName | March ⓘ |
| father | Mr. March ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1868 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jo March
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Josephine March
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | 19th-century American literature character ⓘ |
| givenName | Josephine ⓘ |
| influenced | later portrayals of independent heroines in literature ⓘ |
| literaryRole | protagonist of Little Women ⓘ |
| loveInterest |
Professor Bhaer
ⓘ
surface form:
Professor Friedrich Bhaer
|
| manages |
Plumfield Estate School
ⓘ
surface form:
Plumfield school
|
| mother | Marmee March ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| neighbor | Laurie ⓘ |
| nickname | Jo ⓘ |
| notableAction | cuts and sells her hair to help her family ⓘ |
| notableConflict | burning of her manuscript by Amy ⓘ |
| occupation | writer ⓘ |
| rejectsProposalFrom | Laurie ⓘ |
| residence | Concord, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
American Civil War
ⓘ
surface form:
American Civil War era
|
| sibling |
Amy March
ⓘ
Beth March ⓘ Meg March ⓘ |
| siblingOrder | second-oldest March sister ⓘ |
| spouse |
Professor Bhaer
ⓘ
surface form:
Professor Friedrich Bhaer
|
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: Jo March Description of subject: Jo March is the fiercely independent, imaginative, and strong-willed second March sister who dreams of becoming a writer in Louisa May Alcott’s classic story "Little Women."
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jo March in Little Women
subject surface form:
Laurie
subject surface form:
Laurie
this entity surface form:
Jo March in Little Women (1994 film)
this entity surface form:
Josephine March
subject surface form:
Little Women