Mrs. Caulfield
E311532
Mrs. Caulfield is the mother of Holden and Phoebe Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s novel "The Catcher in the Rye," depicted as a sensitive, anxious woman struggling with grief and concern for her children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Caulfield canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2936198 — 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. Caulfield Context triple: [Phoebe Caulfield, relative, Mrs. Caulfield]
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A.
Doris Sawyer
Doris Sawyer was the wife of senior Royal Air Force commander Trafford Leigh-Mallory, associated with his career during the Second World War.
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B.
Beverly Marsh
Beverly Marsh is a central member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for her resilience, courage, and struggle against both supernatural evil and domestic abuse.
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C.
Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Miller is a minor but pivotal character in John Patrick Shanley’s play "Doubt: A Parable," serving as the concerned mother whose conversation with Sister Aloysius deepens the play’s moral ambiguity.
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D.
Mrs. Prest
Mrs. Prest is a resourceful and inquisitive Englishwoman in Henry James’s novella "The Aspern Papers," who helps the narrator gain access to the reclusive Juliana Bordereau in Venice.
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E.
Eloise Mumford
Eloise Mumford is an American actress known for her supporting role as Kate Kavanagh in the Fifty Shades film series and for her work in both television and independent films.
- 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. Caulfield Target entity description: Mrs. Caulfield is the mother of Holden and Phoebe Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s novel "The Catcher in the Rye," depicted as a sensitive, anxious woman struggling with grief and concern for her children.
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A.
Doris Sawyer
Doris Sawyer was the wife of senior Royal Air Force commander Trafford Leigh-Mallory, associated with his career during the Second World War.
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B.
Beverly Marsh
Beverly Marsh is a central member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for her resilience, courage, and struggle against both supernatural evil and domestic abuse.
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C.
Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Miller is a minor but pivotal character in John Patrick Shanley’s play "Doubt: A Parable," serving as the concerned mother whose conversation with Sister Aloysius deepens the play’s moral ambiguity.
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D.
Mrs. Prest
Mrs. Prest is a resourceful and inquisitive Englishwoman in Henry James’s novella "The Aspern Papers," who helps the narrator gain access to the reclusive Juliana Bordereau in Venice.
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E.
Eloise Mumford
Eloise Mumford is an American actress known for her supporting role as Kate Kavanagh in the Fifty Shades film series and for her work in both television and independent films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| affectedBy | Allie Caulfield's death ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Catcher in the Rye ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| concernedAbout |
Holden Caulfield's mental state
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Phoebe Caulfield's well-being ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. D. Salinger ⓘ |
| familyName | Caulfield ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Catcher in the Rye universe ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Allie Caulfield
ⓘ
D. B. Caulfield ⓘ Holden Caulfield ⓘ Phoebe Caulfield ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
anxious
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sensitive ⓘ struggling with grief ⓘ worried about her children ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Allie Caulfield
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D. B. Caulfield ⓘ Holden Caulfield ⓘ Phoebe Caulfield ⓘ |
| setIn | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Mr. Caulfield ⓘ |
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. Caulfield Description of subject: Mrs. Caulfield is the mother of Holden and Phoebe Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s novel "The Catcher in the Rye," depicted as a sensitive, anxious woman struggling with grief and concern for her children.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.