Ivy Peters
E436617
Ivy Peters is a ruthless, opportunistic lawyer and land speculator in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," symbolizing the rise of crass materialism and the decline of old ideals on the American frontier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ivy Peters canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4386633 — 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: Ivy Peters Context triple: [A Lost Lady, hasCharacter, Ivy Peters]
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A.
Ivy Walker
Ivy Walker is the blind yet perceptive young woman who serves as the courageous protagonist in M. Night Shyamalan’s film "The Village."
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B.
Ivy Peterson
Ivy Peterson is a character in the 1941 film adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," serving as one of the key figures affected by Jekyll's dark transformation into Hyde.
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C.
Ruby Gentry
Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
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D.
Violet Barnes
Violet Barnes is a central character in the romantic comedy film "The Five-Year Engagement," portrayed as an ambitious academic whose prolonged engagement tests her relationship and personal aspirations.
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E.
Anne Ashmond
Anne Ashmond is a fictional character appearing in the film "Royal Wedding."
- 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: Ivy Peters Target entity description: Ivy Peters is a ruthless, opportunistic lawyer and land speculator in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," symbolizing the rise of crass materialism and the decline of old ideals on the American frontier.
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A.
Ivy Walker
Ivy Walker is the blind yet perceptive young woman who serves as the courageous protagonist in M. Night Shyamalan’s film "The Village."
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B.
Ivy Peterson
Ivy Peterson is a character in the 1941 film adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," serving as one of the key figures affected by Jekyll's dark transformation into Hyde.
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C.
Ruby Gentry
Ruby Gentry is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones as a poor Southern woman whose passionate love and social struggles lead to tragedy.
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D.
Violet Barnes
Violet Barnes is a central character in the romantic comedy film "The Five-Year Engagement," portrayed as an ambitious academic whose prolonged engagement tests her relationship and personal aspirations.
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E.
Anne Ashmond
Anne Ashmond is a fictional character appearing in the film "Royal Wedding."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ land speculator ⓘ lawyer ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Lost Lady ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
exploitation of land and people
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moral decay ⓘ transition from frontier idealism to materialism ⓘ |
| characterRole | primary antagonist in A Lost Lady ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Captain Daniel Forrester ⓘ |
| controls | land around Sweet Water ⓘ |
| createdBy | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| exploits |
Forrester estate
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linked to:
Forrester mansion
Mrs. Marian Forrester ⓘ
linked to:
Marian Forrester
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| fictionalUniverse | A Lost Lady ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryWorkGenreContext | American novel ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
land speculator
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lawyer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
opportunistic
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ruthless ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Sweet Water, Colorado ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
corruption of the American frontier
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crass materialism ⓘ decline of old ideals ⓘ ruthless capitalism ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th to early 20th century American West ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1923 ⓘ |
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: Ivy Peters Description of subject: Ivy Peters is a ruthless, opportunistic lawyer and land speculator in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," symbolizing the rise of crass materialism and the decline of old ideals on the American frontier.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.