Catherine Martin
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Catherine Martin is a U.S. senator’s daughter who is kidnapped and held captive by the serial killer Buffalo Bill in Thomas Harris’s novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catherine Martin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6140084 — 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: Catherine Martin Context triple: [Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb), antagonistOf, Catherine Martin]
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A.
Catherine Martin
Catherine Martin is an Australian costume, production designer, and film producer best known for her long-time creative collaboration with director Baz Luhrmann on visually lavish films.
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B.
Sandy Powell
Sandy Powell is a renowned British costume designer celebrated for her innovative and influential work on numerous acclaimed films.
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C.
Maggie Steed
Maggie Steed is a British actress and comedian known for her work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "Pie in the Sky."
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D.
Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Krysty Wilson-Cairns is a Scottish screenwriter known for co-writing the acclaimed World War I film "1917" and working on various high-profile film and television projects.
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E.
William Oldroyd
William Oldroyd is a British film and theatre director best known for his critically acclaimed 2016 period drama film "Lady Macbeth."
- 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: Catherine Martin Target entity description: Catherine Martin is a U.S. senator’s daughter who is kidnapped and held captive by the serial killer Buffalo Bill in Thomas Harris’s novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs."
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A.
Catherine Martin
Catherine Martin is an Australian costume, production designer, and film producer best known for her long-time creative collaboration with director Baz Luhrmann on visually lavish films.
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B.
Sandy Powell
Sandy Powell is a renowned British costume designer celebrated for her innovative and influential work on numerous acclaimed films.
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C.
Maggie Steed
Maggie Steed is a British actress and comedian known for her work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "Pie in the Sky."
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D.
Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Krysty Wilson-Cairns is a Scottish screenwriter known for co-writing the acclaimed World War I film "1917" and working on various high-profile film and television projects.
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E.
William Oldroyd
William Oldroyd is a British film and theatre director best known for his critically acclaimed 2016 period drama film "Lady Macbeth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ human ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | character in The Silence of the Lambs (1991 film) ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Silence of the Lambs (1991 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs (1991 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs (novel) ⓘ The Silence of the Lambs (novel) ⓘ |
| associatedWith | FBI investigation into Buffalo Bill ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Silence of the Lambs (novel) ⓘ |
| captor | Buffalo Bill ⓘ |
| characterAlignment | victim / innocent ⓘ |
| characterType | damsel in distress archetype (partially subverted) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Thomas Harris ⓘ |
| familyName | Martin ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | alive at end of story ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Silence of the Lambs universe ⓘ |
| genre |
crime thriller
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| givenName | Catherine ⓘ |
| hasMotherWhoIs | U.S. senator ⓘ |
| importance | central kidnapping victim in The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ |
| kidnappedBy | Buffalo Bill ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| mother | Ruth Martin ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | high-profile victim whose mother’s status increases public pressure on the FBI ⓘ |
| notableFor | being kidnapped by Buffalo Bill ⓘ |
| notableScene | uses Buffalo Bill’s dog Precious to bargain for her life ⓘ |
| occupation |
FBI trainee
ⓘ
actor ⓘ student ⓘ |
| placeOfImprisonment | Buffalo Bill’s basement pit ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brooke Smith ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United States senator ⓘ |
| relative | Ruth Martin ⓘ |
| rescuedBy | Clarice Starling ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | kidnapping victim whose rescue drives the investigation ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| threatenedWith | being killed and skinned by Buffalo Bill ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Thomas Harris ⓘ |
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: Catherine Martin Description of subject: Catherine Martin is a U.S. senator’s daughter who is kidnapped and held captive by the serial killer Buffalo Bill in Thomas Harris’s novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.