Susan Way
E290610
Susan Way is a central character in Douglas Adams's novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency," known as the intelligent and long-suffering girlfriend of musician Richard MacDuff.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susan Way canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2698206 — 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: Susan Way Context triple: [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, character, Susan Way]
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A.
Sarah Eaves
Sarah Eaves was the partner and later wife of the renowned English printer and typographer John Baskerville, closely involved in his household and business affairs.
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B.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
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C.
Ann Hearn
Ann Hearn is an American actress known for her supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the legal drama "The Accused."
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D.
Stephanie Spruce
Stephanie Spruce is a member of the King family and the sister of American author Tabitha King.
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E.
Susan Harris
Susan Harris is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the acclaimed sitcom "The Golden Girls."
- 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: Susan Way Target entity description: Susan Way is a central character in Douglas Adams's novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency," known as the intelligent and long-suffering girlfriend of musician Richard MacDuff.
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A.
Sarah Eaves
Sarah Eaves was the partner and later wife of the renowned English printer and typographer John Baskerville, closely involved in his household and business affairs.
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B.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
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C.
Ann Hearn
Ann Hearn is an American actress known for her supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the legal drama "The Accused."
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D.
Stephanie Spruce
Stephanie Spruce is a member of the King family and the sister of American author Tabitha King.
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E.
Susan Harris
Susan Harris is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the acclaimed sitcom "The Golden Girls."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
Dirk Gently
|
| associatedWith |
Gordon Way
ⓘ
Richard MacDuff ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
intelligent
ⓘ
long-suffering ⓘ practical ⓘ |
| creator | Douglas Adams ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
Dirk Gently series
|
| genre |
comic science fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Richard MacDuff ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
Dirk Gently
Reg Chronotis ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
events surrounding Gordon Way's death
ⓘ
investigation by Dirk Gently ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | cellist ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ⓘ |
| playsInstrument | cello ⓘ |
| relationship | girlfriend of Richard MacDuff ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | Cambridge ⓘ |
| sibling | Gordon Way ⓘ |
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: Susan Way Description of subject: Susan Way is a central character in Douglas Adams's novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency," known as the intelligent and long-suffering girlfriend of musician Richard MacDuff.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.