Mrs. Flood
E305347
Mrs. Flood is a lonely, inquisitive landlady in Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," serving as a comic yet poignant observer of the protagonist’s spiritual unraveling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Flood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2854958 — 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. Flood Context triple: [Wise Blood, character, Mrs. Flood]
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A.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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B.
Mrs. Newsome
Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
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C.
Edith Atwater
Edith Atwater was an American character actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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D.
Cornelia Connelly
Cornelia Connelly was a 19th-century American-born Roman Catholic nun and educator who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation dedicated to the education and spiritual formation of young people.
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E.
June Boatwright
June Boatwright is a strong-willed, emotionally guarded cellist and beekeeper who serves as one of the Boatwright sisters providing refuge and guidance in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees."
- 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. Flood Target entity description: Mrs. Flood is a lonely, inquisitive landlady in Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," serving as a comic yet poignant observer of the protagonist’s spiritual unraveling.
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A.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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B.
Mrs. Newsome
Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
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C.
Edith Atwater
Edith Atwater was an American character actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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D.
Cornelia Connelly
Cornelia Connelly was a 19th-century American-born Roman Catholic nun and educator who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation dedicated to the education and spiritual formation of young people.
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E.
June Boatwright
June Boatwright is a strong-willed, emotionally guarded cellist and beekeeper who serves as one of the Boatwright sisters providing refuge and guidance in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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landlady ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Wise Blood ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
isolation
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religious doubt ⓘ spiritual crisis ⓘ |
| characterInWorkBy |
Flannery O'Connor
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surface form:
Flannery O’Connor
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| createdBy |
Flannery O'Connor
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surface form:
Flannery O’Connor
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| describedAs |
inquisitive
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lonely ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | novel Wise Blood ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | Southern Gothic ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nameOfCharacterIn | Wise Blood ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
comic observer
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poignant observer ⓘ |
| nationalityOfFictionalContext | American ⓘ |
| observes | Hazel Motes ⓘ |
| relationshipToProtagonist | landlady of Hazel Motes ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
landlady of the protagonist
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observer of the protagonist’s spiritual unraveling ⓘ |
| settingOfFictionalContext |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
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| workPublicationYearContext | 1952 ⓘ |
| workPublisherContext |
Harcourt Brace & World
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surface form:
Harcourt, Brace & Company
|
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. Flood Description of subject: Mrs. Flood is a lonely, inquisitive landlady in Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," serving as a comic yet poignant observer of the protagonist’s spiritual unraveling.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.