Mrs. Harling
E437384
Mrs. Harling is a strong-willed, warm-hearted matron in Willa Cather’s "My Ántonia" who provides Ántonia with a lively, nurturing home in town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Harling canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423416 — 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: Mrs. Harling Context triple: [My Ántonia, character, Mrs. Harling]
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A.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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B.
Hattie Glascoe
Hattie Glascoe was the first wife of American actor Louis Gossett Jr., known primarily for her brief marriage to him in the 1960s.
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C.
Mrs. Hubbard
Mrs. Hubbard is a seemingly fussy, talkative American passenger whose true identity and role are central to the mystery in Agatha Christie’s novel "Murder on the Orient Express."
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D.
Hazel Jenkins
Hazel Jenkins is a South African politician who served as Premier of the Northern Cape province.
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E.
Mrs. Soffel
Mrs. Soffel is a 1984 American period crime drama film starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson, based on the true story of a warden’s wife who helps two convicted murderers escape from a Pittsburgh prison.
- 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: Mrs. Harling Target entity description: Mrs. Harling is a strong-willed, warm-hearted matron in Willa Cather’s "My Ántonia" who provides Ántonia with a lively, nurturing home in town.
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A.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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B.
Hattie Glascoe
Hattie Glascoe was the first wife of American actor Louis Gossett Jr., known primarily for her brief marriage to him in the 1960s.
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C.
Mrs. Hubbard
Mrs. Hubbard is a seemingly fussy, talkative American passenger whose true identity and role are central to the mystery in Agatha Christie’s novel "Murder on the Orient Express."
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D.
Hazel Jenkins
Hazel Jenkins is a South African politician who served as Premier of the Northern Cape province.
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E.
Mrs. Soffel
Mrs. Soffel is a 1984 American period crime drama film starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson, based on the true story of a warden’s wife who helps two convicted murderers escape from a Pittsburgh prison.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | My Ántonia ⓘ |
| appearsInPart |
Book II of My Ántonia
ⓘ
linked to:
My Ántonia
|
| associatedTheme |
community in small-town America
ⓘ
domesticity ⓘ female friendship ⓘ immigrant integration ⓘ |
| attitudeTowardÁntonia |
affectionate
ⓘ
protective ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
energetic
ⓘ
maternal ⓘ practical ⓘ protective ⓘ strong-willed ⓘ warm-hearted ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Ántonia’s decision to work for the Cutters ⓘ |
| createdBy | Willa Cather ⓘ |
| familyName | Harling ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
My Ántonia (1918)
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linked to:
My Ántonia
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Charley Harling
ⓘ
Frances Harling ⓘ Julia Harling ⓘ Sally Harling ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
American realism
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linked to:
Realism
|
| manages | Harling household ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Mr. Harling ⓘ |
| moralStance | disapproves of Ántonia working for Wick Cutter ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Jim Burden ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | housewife ⓘ |
| providesEnvironment |
lively home for Ántonia
ⓘ
nurturing home for Ántonia ⓘ |
| providesHomeFor | Ántonia Shimerda ⓘ |
| relationshipToÁntonia |
employer
ⓘ
surrogate mother ⓘ |
| roleInWork | matron ⓘ |
| settingOfResidence | Black Hawk, Nebraska ⓘ |
| socialClass | middle class ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
domestic warmth in town life
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stability ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Harling Description of subject: Mrs. Harling is a strong-willed, warm-hearted matron in Willa Cather’s "My Ántonia" who provides Ántonia with a lively, nurturing home in town.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.