Gerald O'Hara
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Gerald O'Hara is a fictional Irish-born plantation owner in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," best known as the hot-tempered, devoted father of Scarlett O'Hara.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gerald O'Hara canonical | 10 |
| Gerald O’Hara | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2327182 — 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: Gerald O'Hara Context triple: [Scarlett O'Hara, father, Gerald O'Hara]
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A.
Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart was an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including performances in "La Strada" and the TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
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B.
Eddie Bracken
Eddie Bracken was an American comedic actor known for his roles in 1940s and 1950s film comedies and Broadway productions.
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C.
Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb was an American character actor renowned for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in classics like "12 Angry Men" and "On the Waterfront."
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D.
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker known for his athletic, romantic leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and later for directing and starring in the survival adventure "The Naked Prey."
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E.
Richard Dix
Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
- 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: Gerald O'Hara Target entity description: Gerald O'Hara is a fictional Irish-born plantation owner in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," best known as the hot-tempered, devoted father of Scarlett O'Hara.
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A.
Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart was an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including performances in "La Strada" and the TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
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B.
Eddie Bracken
Eddie Bracken was an American comedic actor known for his roles in 1940s and 1950s film comedies and Broadway productions.
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C.
Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb was an American character actor renowned for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in classics like "12 Angry Men" and "On the Waterfront."
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D.
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker known for his athletic, romantic leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and later for directing and starring in the survival adventure "The Naked Prey."
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E.
Richard Dix
Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish immigrant
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ planter ⓘ |
| accent | Irish brogue ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Gone with the Wind
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surface form:
1939 film Gone with the Wind
|
| appearsIn | novel Gone with the Wind ⓘ |
| child |
Carreen O'Hara
ⓘ
Scarlett O'Hara ⓘ Suellen O'Hara ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| creator | Margaret Mitchell ⓘ |
| deathCause | riding accident ⓘ |
| deathEvent | thrown from a horse ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
novel Gone with the Wind
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surface form:
Gone with the Wind
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influences | Scarlett O'Hara's attachment to Tara ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | Southern historical romance ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | father of protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityAfterEmigration | American ⓘ |
| nationalityBeforeEmigration | Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
novel Gone with the Wind
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surface form:
Gone with the Wind
|
| occupation |
farmer
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plantation owner ⓘ |
| owns | Tara plantation ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
devoted father
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hot-tempered ⓘ impulsive ⓘ stubborn ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Confederate sympathizer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Thomas Mitchell ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Gone with the Wind
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surface form:
Gone with the Wind (film)
novel Gone with the Wind ⓘ
surface form:
Gone with the Wind (novel)
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| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic
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| residence |
Clayton County, Georgia
NERFINISHED
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Tara plantation ⓘ |
| setting |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
Georgia ⓘ |
| socialClass | Southern planter aristocracy ⓘ |
| spouse | Ellen O'Hara ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
family loyalty
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land and heritage ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
American Civil War
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surface form:
American Civil War era
Reconstruction era ⓘ |
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: Gerald O'Hara Description of subject: Gerald O'Hara is a fictional Irish-born plantation owner in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," best known as the hot-tempered, devoted father of Scarlett O'Hara.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gerald O’Hara
subject surface form:
Tara plantation
this entity surface form:
Gerald O’Hara
subject surface form:
Mammy (Gone with the Wind)
this entity surface form:
Gerald O’Hara
subject surface form:
Gone with the Wind