Artis Martineau
E346545
Artis Martineau is a central figure in Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose death and participation in a cryogenic preservation program drive the book’s exploration of mortality, technology, and grief.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Artis Martineau canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3315298 — 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: Artis Martineau Context triple: [Zero K, mainCharacter, Artis Martineau]
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A.
Edith Dumont
Edith Dumont is a Canadian educator and public servant who serves as the lieutenant governor of Ontario, acting as the King’s representative in the province.
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B.
Marcheline Bertrand
Marcheline Bertrand was an American actress and humanitarian best known as the mother of Angelina Jolie and for her advocacy work, particularly in cancer awareness.
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C.
Gisèle Galante
Gisèle Galante is the daughter of legendary Hollywood actress Olivia de Havilland and French journalist Pierre Galante, known mainly for her connection to her famous parents.
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D.
Marie Morgan
Marie Morgan is a central female character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel and its film adaptation "To Have and Have Not," often depicted as a tough, resourceful, and romantically involved companion to the protagonist.
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E.
Thérèse Tanguay Dion
Thérèse Tanguay Dion was a Canadian television personality, cookbook author, and the mother of internationally renowned singer Céline Dion.
- 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: Artis Martineau Target entity description: Artis Martineau is a central figure in Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose death and participation in a cryogenic preservation program drive the book’s exploration of mortality, technology, and grief.
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A.
Edith Dumont
Edith Dumont is a Canadian educator and public servant who serves as the lieutenant governor of Ontario, acting as the King’s representative in the province.
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B.
Marcheline Bertrand
Marcheline Bertrand was an American actress and humanitarian best known as the mother of Angelina Jolie and for her advocacy work, particularly in cancer awareness.
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C.
Gisèle Galante
Gisèle Galante is the daughter of legendary Hollywood actress Olivia de Havilland and French journalist Pierre Galante, known mainly for her connection to her famous parents.
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D.
Marie Morgan
Marie Morgan is a central female character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel and its film adaptation "To Have and Have Not," often depicted as a tough, resourceful, and romantically involved companion to the protagonist.
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E.
Thérèse Tanguay Dion
Thérèse Tanguay Dion was a Canadian television personality, cookbook author, and the mother of internationally renowned singer Céline Dion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Zero K ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization | Convergence facility ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States (fictional setting)
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surface form:
United States (fictional context)
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| creator | Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| drivesExplorationOf |
emotional impact of cryonics on survivors
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human response to death ⓘ limits of technological control over life ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Zero K ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 2016 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| healthStatusAtProgramEntry | terminally ill ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
catalyst for plot
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central character ⓘ |
| occupation | art historian ⓘ |
| participatesIn | cryogenic preservation program ⓘ |
| relationshipToNarrator | stepmother of narrator ⓘ |
| spouse | Ross Lockhart ⓘ |
| stepMotherOf | Jeffrey Lockhart ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
cryonics
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grief ⓘ mortality ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| undergoes | cryonic suspension ⓘ |
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: Artis Martineau Description of subject: Artis Martineau is a central figure in Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose death and participation in a cryogenic preservation program drive the book’s exploration of mortality, technology, and grief.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.