Miss Adelaide
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Miss Adelaide is a comedic, long-suffering nightclub performer and fiancée of Nathan Detroit in the classic Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miss Adelaide canonical | 8 |
| Miss Adelaide and Nathan Detroit | 1 |
| Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5398198 — 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: Miss Adelaide Context triple: [Guys and Dolls, originalBroadwayLeadCharacter, Miss Adelaide]
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A.
Miss Quentin
Miss Quentin is a rebellious and troubled young woman in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," whose defiance highlights the decay and dysfunction of the Compson family.
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B.
Miss Ruth
Miss Ruth is the stage name of Ruth St. Denis, a pioneering American modern dance innovator and co-founder of the Denishawn School.
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C.
Miss Granny
Miss Granny is a popular South Korean comedy-drama film about an elderly woman who mysteriously regains her youthful appearance, leading to humorous and heartfelt consequences.
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D.
Miss Foster
Miss Foster is a fictional character from the musical play "Lady in the Dark," which explores psychoanalysis and a woman's inner emotional life.
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E.
Miss Amy
Miss Amy is a character from Truman Capote’s Southern Gothic novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," embodying the eccentric and decaying gentility of the story’s rural Southern setting.
- 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: Miss Adelaide Target entity description: Miss Adelaide is a comedic, long-suffering nightclub performer and fiancée of Nathan Detroit in the classic Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls."
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A.
Miss Quentin
Miss Quentin is a rebellious and troubled young woman in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," whose defiance highlights the decay and dysfunction of the Compson family.
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B.
Miss Ruth
Miss Ruth is the stage name of Ruth St. Denis, a pioneering American modern dance innovator and co-founder of the Denishawn School.
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C.
Miss Granny
Miss Granny is a popular South Korean comedy-drama film about an elderly woman who mysteriously regains her youthful appearance, leading to humorous and heartfelt consequences.
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D.
Miss Foster
Miss Foster is a fictional character from the musical play "Lady in the Dark," which explores psychoanalysis and a woman's inner emotional life.
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E.
Miss Amy
Miss Amy is a character from Truman Capote’s Southern Gothic novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," embodying the eccentric and decaying gentility of the story’s rural Southern setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
musical theatre character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Guys and Dolls ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Broadway
ⓘ
Golden Age of American musical theatre ⓘ
linked to:
Golden Age of Broadway
|
| basedOn | Miss Adelaide from Damon Runyon stories ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
comedic
ⓘ
emotional ⓘ long-suffering ⓘ loyal ⓘ romantic ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Abe Burrows
ⓘ
Frank Loesser ⓘ Jo Swerling ⓘ |
| fianceeOf | Nathan Detroit ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Guys and Dolls (1950 Broadway musical)
ⓘ
linked to:
Guys and Dolls
|
| genre | comedic character ⓘ |
| hasHealthIssue | psychosomatic cold ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
comic relief
ⓘ
secondary protagonist ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Adelaide's Lament
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linked to:
Adelaide’s Lament
Sue Me ⓘ |
| occupation |
nightclub performer
ⓘ
showgirl ⓘ |
| partOf | Guys and Dolls character ensemble ⓘ |
| relationshipStatus | engaged to Nathan Detroit ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Nathan Detroit ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | New York City ⓘ |
| worksAt | Hot Box nightclub ⓘ |
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: Miss Adelaide Description of subject: Miss Adelaide is a comedic, long-suffering nightclub performer and fiancée of Nathan Detroit in the classic Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Miss Adelaide
linked to: Miss Adelaide
subject linked to:
Broadway production of "Guys and Dolls"