Wendy Hood
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Wendy Hood is a teenage girl in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and sexual experimentation of suburban America in the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wendy Hood canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4106155 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wendy Hood Context triple: [The Ice Storm, mainCharacter, Wendy Hood]
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Emma Winsloe
Emma Winsloe was a British aristocrat and society figure of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known as the daughter of Margot Tennant (later Margot Asquith), the influential socialite and wife of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.
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B.
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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C.
Sarah Hawkred
Sarah Hawkred was the wife of the influential 17th-century Puritan minister and New England clergyman John Cotton.
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D.
Heather Whinna
Heather Whinna is an American writer, filmmaker, and radio producer known for her work on projects like the radio series "Love and Radio" and for her collaborations with the independent music and arts community.
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E.
Lucinda Ashby
Lucinda Ashby is an Episcopal bishop who leads the Diocese of El Camino Real in California.
- 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: Wendy Hood Target entity description: Wendy Hood is a teenage girl in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and sexual experimentation of suburban America in the 1970s.
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A.
Emma Winsloe
Emma Winsloe was a British aristocrat and society figure of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known as the daughter of Margot Tennant (later Margot Asquith), the influential socialite and wife of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.
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B.
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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C.
Sarah Hawkred
Sarah Hawkred was the wife of the influential 17th-century Puritan minister and New England clergyman John Cotton.
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D.
Heather Whinna
Heather Whinna is an American writer, filmmaker, and radio producer known for her work on projects like the radio series "Love and Radio" and for her collaborations with the independent music and arts community.
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E.
Lucinda Ashby
Lucinda Ashby is an Episcopal bishop who leads the Diocese of El Camino Real in California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| adaptationAppearance |
The Ice Storm
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surface form:
The Ice Storm (1997 film)
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| appearsIn |
The Ice Storm
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The Ice Storm ⓘ
surface form:
The Ice Storm (film)
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| associatedWithTheme |
adolescent sexuality
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coming of age ⓘ emotional disconnection ⓘ family dysfunction ⓘ sexual experimentation ⓘ suburban malaise ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Ice Storm (novel) ⓘ |
| characterArc | experiments with sexuality as a response to emotional isolation ⓘ |
| creator | Rick Moody ⓘ |
| familyName | Hood ⓘ |
| fictionalAge | teenager ⓘ |
| fictionalNationality | American ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Ice Storm universe ⓘ |
| filmGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Ice Storm (novel)
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surface form:
The Ice Storm (1994 novel)
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| genre |
coming-of-age fiction
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Wendy ⓘ |
| hasFictionalParent |
Ben Hood
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Elena Hood ⓘ |
| hasFictionalSibling | Paul Hood ⓘ |
| literaryWorkGenre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| medium |
feature film adaptation
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novel ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hood family ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodies 1970s suburban youth culture
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explores adolescent response to adult hypocrisy ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | major character ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | Christina Ricci ⓘ |
| settingPlace | suburban Connecticut ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| symbolizes | disaffected American youth in the 1970s ⓘ |
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: Wendy Hood Description of subject: Wendy Hood is a teenage girl in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and sexual experimentation of suburban America in the 1970s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.