Pearly Soames
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Pearly Soames is a ruthless gangster and supernatural antagonist in the fantasy film "Winter's Tale" (2014), portrayed by Russell Crowe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pearly Soames canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5706289 — 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: Pearly Soames Context triple: [Winter's Tale (2014 film), mainCharacter, Pearly Soames]
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A.
Helga Cranston
Helga Cranston was a film editor best known for her work on Laurence Olivier’s 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet."
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B.
Alf Garnett
Alf Garnett is a fictional, outspokenly bigoted working-class Londoner from the British sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part," known for his reactionary views and satirical portrayal of social and political attitudes in mid-20th-century Britain.
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C.
Soames Forsyte
Soames Forsyte is a central figure in John Galsworthy’s "The Forsyte Saga," portrayed as a wealthy, possessive Victorian solicitor whose troubled marriage and rigid values embody the conflicts of an upper-middle-class family in transition.
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D.
The Late George Apley
The Late George Apley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning satirical novel by John P. Marquand, later adapted for the stage and screen, that gently mocks the rigid social conventions of Boston’s upper class.
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E.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
- 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: Pearly Soames Target entity description: Pearly Soames is a ruthless gangster and supernatural antagonist in the fantasy film "Winter's Tale" (2014), portrayed by Russell Crowe.
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A.
Helga Cranston
Helga Cranston was a film editor best known for her work on Laurence Olivier’s 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet."
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B.
Alf Garnett
Alf Garnett is a fictional, outspokenly bigoted working-class Londoner from the British sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part," known for his reactionary views and satirical portrayal of social and political attitudes in mid-20th-century Britain.
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C.
Soames Forsyte
Soames Forsyte is a central figure in John Galsworthy’s "The Forsyte Saga," portrayed as a wealthy, possessive Victorian solicitor whose troubled marriage and rigid values embody the conflicts of an upper-middle-class family in transition.
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D.
The Late George Apley
The Late George Apley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning satirical novel by John P. Marquand, later adapted for the stage and screen, that gently mocks the rigid social conventions of Boston’s upper class.
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E.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ gangster ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | film ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Akiva Goldsman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Winter's Tale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Winter's Tale (2014 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
demonic powers
ⓘ
organized crime ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the novel "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Mark Helprin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Peter Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmProductionCompanyContext | Warner Bros. Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | fantasy film ⓘ |
| hasAlignment | villain ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
ruthless
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supernatural abilities ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalRole | agent of demonic forces ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | obstacle to the protagonist's destiny ⓘ |
| occupation | gangster ⓘ |
| partOf | Winter's Tale film universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Russell Crowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInStory | main antagonist ⓘ |
| setIn | New York City ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory |
early 20th century (in part)
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modern era (in part) ⓘ |
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: Pearly Soames Description of subject: Pearly Soames is a ruthless gangster and supernatural antagonist in the fantasy film "Winter's Tale" (2014), portrayed by Russell Crowe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.