Frau Frieda
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Frau Frieda is a mysterious, dream-haunted woman at the center of Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “I Sell My Dreams,” known for making a living by interpreting and selling her prophetic dreams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frau Frieda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5156856 — 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: Frau Frieda Context triple: [I Sell My Dreams, mainCharacter, Frau Frieda]
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A.
Elfriede
Elfriede is a feminine given name of German origin, notably borne by Austrian Nobel Prize–winning writer Elfriede Jelinek.
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B.
Frau Engel
Frau Engel is a sadistic high-ranking Nazi officer and primary antagonist in the modern Wolfenstein video games developed by MachineGames.
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C.
Margarete
Margarete is a female given name of Greek origin, commonly associated with the meaning "pearl" and used in various European languages.
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D.
Bettina
Bettina is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin, often considered a diminutive of Elisabeth or Benedetta and used in various European languages.
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E.
Frau Farbissina
Frau Farbissina is a loud, stern, and militaristic henchwoman and love interest of Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers comedy film series.
- 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: Frau Frieda Target entity description: Frau Frieda is a mysterious, dream-haunted woman at the center of Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “I Sell My Dreams,” known for making a living by interpreting and selling her prophetic dreams.
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A.
Elfriede
Elfriede is a feminine given name of German origin, notably borne by Austrian Nobel Prize–winning writer Elfriede Jelinek.
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B.
Frau Engel
Frau Engel is a sadistic high-ranking Nazi officer and primary antagonist in the modern Wolfenstein video games developed by MachineGames.
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C.
Margarete
Margarete is a female given name of Greek origin, commonly associated with the meaning "pearl" and used in various European languages.
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D.
Bettina
Bettina is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin, often considered a diminutive of Elisabeth or Benedetta and used in various European languages.
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E.
Frau Farbissina
Frau Farbissina is a loud, stern, and militaristic henchwoman and love interest of Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers comedy film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | I Sell My Dreams ⓘ |
| appearsInCollection | Strange Pilgrims ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
prophecy
ⓘ
wealthy patrons ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Colombian ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ |
| createdInLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Doce cuentos peregrinos ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | magical realism ⓘ |
| hasAbility | prophetic dreaming ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
dream-haunted
ⓘ
mysterious ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
dreams and reality
ⓘ
fate ⓘ supernatural premonitions ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| makesLivingFrom |
interpreting dreams
ⓘ
selling dreams ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character of the short story I Sell My Dreams ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | German ⓘ |
| notableFor | selling her prophetic dreams ⓘ |
| occupation |
dream interpreter
ⓘ
fortune teller ⓘ |
| setIn |
Europe
ⓘ
Latin America ⓘ |
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: Frau Frieda Description of subject: Frau Frieda is a mysterious, dream-haunted woman at the center of Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “I Sell My Dreams,” known for making a living by interpreting and selling her prophetic dreams.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.