Mrs. Hudson
E218634
Mrs. Hudson is the long-suffering landlady of 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, known for her patience, discretion, and care for Holmes and Watson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Hudson canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1963623 — 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: Mrs. Hudson Context triple: [Sherlock, featuresCharacter, Mrs. Hudson]
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A.
Gerty MacDowell
Gerty MacDowell is a young Dublin woman featured in the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce’s novel *Ulysses*, known for her romantic fantasies and the voyeuristic encounter with Leopold Bloom on Sandymount Strand.
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B.
Helga Cranston
Helga Cranston was a film editor best known for her work on Laurence Olivier’s 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet."
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C.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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D.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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E.
Aunt Dahlia
Aunt Dahlia is a boisterous, warm-hearted, and strong-willed aunt of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for her love of good food, gambling, and her magazine Milady’s Boudoir.
- 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: Mrs. Hudson Target entity description: Mrs. Hudson is the long-suffering landlady of 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, known for her patience, discretion, and care for Holmes and Watson.
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A.
Gerty MacDowell
Gerty MacDowell is a young Dublin woman featured in the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce’s novel *Ulysses*, known for her romantic fantasies and the voyeuristic encounter with Leopold Bloom on Sandymount Strand.
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B.
Helga Cranston
Helga Cranston was a film editor best known for her work on Laurence Olivier’s 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet."
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C.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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D.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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E.
Aunt Dahlia
Aunt Dahlia is a boisterous, warm-hearted, and strong-willed aunt of Bertie Wooster in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known for her love of good food, gambling, and her magazine Milady’s Boudoir.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
landlady ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Sherlock Holmes stories ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
Sherlock Holmes film adaptations
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes television adaptations ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
A Study in Scarlet
ⓘ
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans ⓘ The Adventure of the Dying Detective ⓘ The Return of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ
surface form:
The Adventure of the Empty House
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty ⓘ The Adventure of the Second Stain ⓘ The Adventure of the Three Gables ⓘ The Sign of Four ⓘ |
| associatedWithAddress |
Baker Street
ⓘ
surface form:
221B Baker Street, London
|
| basedOnWorkBy |
Arthur Conan Doyle
ⓘ
surface form:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
|
| caresFor |
Dr. Watson
ⓘ
surface form:
Dr. John Watson
Holmes ⓘ
surface form:
Sherlock Holmes
|
| characterTrait |
kindness
ⓘ
loyalty ⓘ tolerance of Holmes’s eccentricities ⓘ |
| cityOfResidence |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| countryOfResidence | England ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Holmes
ⓘ
surface form:
Sherlock Holmes
|
| firstAppearanceUniverse |
Sherlock Holmes stories
ⓘ
surface form:
Sherlock Holmes canon
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| householdRole | manager of 221B Baker Street household ⓘ |
| knownFor |
care for Dr. Watson
ⓘ
care for Sherlock Holmes ⓘ discretion ⓘ patience ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | detective fiction ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | landlady ⓘ |
| relationshipToDrWatson | landlady ⓘ |
| relationshipToSherlockHolmes | landlady ⓘ |
| residence |
Baker Street
ⓘ
surface form:
221B Baker Street
Baker Street ⓘ |
| role |
landlady of Dr. Watson
ⓘ
landlady of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ |
| setting |
Edwardian London
ⓘ
Victorian London ⓘ |
| tenant |
Dr. Watson
ⓘ
surface form:
Dr. John Watson
Holmes ⓘ
surface form:
Sherlock Holmes
|
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: Mrs. Hudson Description of subject: Mrs. Hudson is the long-suffering landlady of 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, known for her patience, discretion, and care for Holmes and Watson.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.