Jessie Elster
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Jessie Elster is a central fictional character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Point Omega," around whom key elements of the story’s mystery and psychological tension revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jessie Elster canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3288667 — 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: Jessie Elster Context triple: [Point Omega, mainCharacter, Jessie Elster]
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A.
Mollie Steimer
Mollie Steimer was a Russian-born Jewish anarchist and political activist in the United States, known for her anti-war agitation, prosecution under the Espionage Act, and eventual deportation for her radical beliefs.
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B.
Fay Hauser
Fay Hauser is an American actress and director known for her work in film and television since the 1970s, including roles in notable dramas and comedies.
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C.
Jessie Ohl
Jessie Ohl was the first wife of famed American lawyer and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow.
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D.
Elisabeth Vietz
Elisabeth Vietz was the mother of Austrian composer Franz Schubert, playing a formative role in his early family life and upbringing.
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E.
Jessie Breyman
Jessie Breyman was the wife of prominent American politician Charles L. McNary, who served as a long-time U.S. Senator from Oregon and Republican Senate Minority Leader.
- 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: Jessie Elster Target entity description: Jessie Elster is a central fictional character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Point Omega," around whom key elements of the story’s mystery and psychological tension revolve.
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A.
Mollie Steimer
Mollie Steimer was a Russian-born Jewish anarchist and political activist in the United States, known for her anti-war agitation, prosecution under the Espionage Act, and eventual deportation for her radical beliefs.
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B.
Fay Hauser
Fay Hauser is an American actress and director known for her work in film and television since the 1970s, including roles in notable dramas and comedies.
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C.
Jessie Ohl
Jessie Ohl was the first wife of famed American lawyer and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow.
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D.
Elisabeth Vietz
Elisabeth Vietz was the mother of Austrian composer Franz Schubert, playing a formative role in his early family life and upbringing.
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E.
Jessie Breyman
Jessie Breyman was the wife of prominent American politician Charles L. McNary, who served as a long-time U.S. Senator from Oregon and Republican Senate Minority Leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Point Omega ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
isolation
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mystery ⓘ psychological tension ⓘ time ⓘ war ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| genre | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | focus of the novel’s mystery ⓘ |
| partOf |
Point Omega
ⓘ
surface form:
Point Omega (novel)
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| publicationYearOfWork | 2010 ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central character
ⓘ
mysterious character ⓘ source of psychological tension ⓘ |
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: Jessie Elster Description of subject: Jessie Elster is a central fictional character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Point Omega," around whom key elements of the story’s mystery and psychological tension revolve.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.