Ellen Higgins
E473621
Ellen Higgins is the fictional mother of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ellen Higgins canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4757900 — 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: Ellen Higgins Context triple: [Leopold Bloom, mother, Ellen Higgins]
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A.
Mary McCleary
Mary McCleary is best known as the wife of famed American automobile executive Lee Iacocca.
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B.
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey is an American politician, writer, and former Lieutenant Governor of New York known for her conservative commentary and opposition to certain health care reforms.
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C.
Margaret Hogan
Margaret Hogan was the wife of legendary Major League Baseball manager and team owner Connie Mack.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Hilary Callaghan
Hilary Callaghan is a British mathematician known for her work in probability theory and as the daughter of former UK Prime Minister James Callaghan.
- 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: Ellen Higgins Target entity description: Ellen Higgins is the fictional mother of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses."
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A.
Mary McCleary
Mary McCleary is best known as the wife of famed American automobile executive Lee Iacocca.
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B.
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey is an American politician, writer, and former Lieutenant Governor of New York known for her conservative commentary and opposition to certain health care reforms.
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C.
Margaret Hogan
Margaret Hogan was the wife of legendary Major League Baseball manager and team owner Connie Mack.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Hilary Callaghan
Hilary Callaghan is a British mathematician known for her work in probability theory and as the daughter of former UK Prime Minister James Callaghan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ulysses ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland (fictional context) ⓘ |
| createdBy | James Joyce ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Ulysses ⓘ |
| genre | modernist literature ⓘ |
| hasChild | Leopold Bloom ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Ellen ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Higgins ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| motherOf | Leopold Bloom ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | parent of protagonist ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Rudolph Bloom ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1922 (Ulysses) ⓘ |
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: Ellen Higgins Description of subject: Ellen Higgins is the fictional mother of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.