Steffie Gladney
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Steffie Gladney is a character in Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," known as one of Jack Gladney’s children whose small, poignant moments often underscore the book’s themes of language, fear, and modern anxiety.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steffie Gladney canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3281640 — 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: Steffie Gladney Context triple: [White Noise, mainCharacter, Steffie Gladney]
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A.
Gwendolyn Rickard
Gwendolyn Rickard was the longtime wife of American actor and dancer Ray Bolger, best known for his role as the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Frances Stevens
Frances Stevens is a fictional socialite character best known as Grace Kelly’s witty and glamorous role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 film "To Catch a Thief."
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C.
Sherry Darling
"Sherry Darling" is an upbeat, rock-and-roll track by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album *The River*, known for its humorous lyrics about a beleaguered boyfriend and its raucous, bar-band energy.
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D.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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E.
Esti Stephens
Esti Stephens is the granddaughter of Vilailuck "Pepper" Teigen and a member of the high-profile family of model Chrissy Teigen and musician John Legend.
- 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: Steffie Gladney Target entity description: Steffie Gladney is a character in Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," known as one of Jack Gladney’s children whose small, poignant moments often underscore the book’s themes of language, fear, and modern anxiety.
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A.
Gwendolyn Rickard
Gwendolyn Rickard was the longtime wife of American actor and dancer Ray Bolger, best known for his role as the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Frances Stevens
Frances Stevens is a fictional socialite character best known as Grace Kelly’s witty and glamorous role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 film "To Catch a Thief."
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C.
Sherry Darling
"Sherry Darling" is an upbeat, rock-and-roll track by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album *The River*, known for its humorous lyrics about a beleaguered boyfriend and its raucous, bar-band energy.
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D.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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E.
Esti Stephens
Esti Stephens is the granddaughter of Vilailuck "Pepper" Teigen and a member of the high-profile family of model Chrissy Teigen and musician John Legend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | White Noise ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
family life in late capitalism
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fear of death ⓘ media saturation ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
observant
ⓘ
sensitive ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| familyName | Gladney ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | White Noise ⓘ |
| fullName | Steffie Gladney self-link ⓘ |
| givenName |
Stefanie
ⓘ
surface form:
Steffie
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| hasFather | Jack Gladney ⓘ |
| hasParent | Jack Gladney ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Denise Gladney
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Heinrich Gladney ⓘ Wilder Gladney ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
underscores themes of fear
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underscores themes of language ⓘ underscores themes of modern anxiety ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | child of protagonist ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1985 ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Steffie Gladney Description of subject: Steffie Gladney is a character in Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," known as one of Jack Gladney’s children whose small, poignant moments often underscore the book’s themes of language, fear, and modern anxiety.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.