Matilda
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Matilda is a 1996 family fantasy-comedy film, based on Roald Dahl’s novel, about a gifted young girl with telekinetic powers who stands up to her cruel parents and tyrannical school principal.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matilda canonical | 10 |
| Matilda (1996 film) | 2 |
| Matilda by Roald Dahl | 1 |
| Matilda the Musical | 1 |
| Miss Honey in Matilda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2905487 — 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: Matilda Context triple: [Jean Speegle Howard, workedOn, Matilda]
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A.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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B.
Matilda
Matilda was the regnal name of Edith of Scotland, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry I.
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C.
Matilda
Matilda is the middle name of Louisa Matilda Jacobs, an African American writer and activist and the daughter of abolitionist author Harriet Jacobs.
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D.
Malory Towers
Malory Towers is a classic British children's book series set in a girls' boarding school, written by Enid Blyton and known for its stories of friendship, school life, and personal growth.
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E.
The Reading Magdalen
The Reading Magdalen is a renowned Renaissance painting depicting Mary Magdalene in contemplative devotion, celebrated for its delicate realism and emotional depth.
- 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: Matilda Target entity description: Matilda is a 1996 family fantasy-comedy film, based on Roald Dahl’s novel, about a gifted young girl with telekinetic powers who stands up to her cruel parents and tyrannical school principal.
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A.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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B.
Matilda
Matilda was the regnal name of Edith of Scotland, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry I.
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C.
Matilda
Matilda is the middle name of Louisa Matilda Jacobs, an African American writer and activist and the daughter of abolitionist author Harriet Jacobs.
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D.
Malory Towers
Malory Towers is a classic British children's book series set in a girls' boarding school, written by Enid Blyton and known for its stories of friendship, school life, and personal growth.
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E.
The Reading Magdalen
The Reading Magdalen is a renowned Renaissance painting depicting Mary Magdalene in contemplative devotion, celebrated for its delicate realism and emotional depth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Matilda Description of subject: Matilda is a 1996 family fantasy-comedy film, based on Roald Dahl’s novel, about a gifted young girl with telekinetic powers who stands up to her cruel parents and tyrannical school principal.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Matilda the Musical
this entity surface form:
Matilda (1996 film)
this entity surface form:
Matilda by Roald Dahl
this entity surface form:
Matilda (1996 film)
this entity surface form:
Miss Honey in Matilda
subject surface form:
Matilda (Roald Dahl character)