Viola Price
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Viola Price is the outspoken, tough-loving matriarch at the center of Terry McMillan’s novel "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," whose struggles to hold her fractured family together drive the story.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Viola Price canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6270891 — 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: Viola Price Context triple: [A Day Late and a Dollar Short, featuresCharacter, Viola Price]
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A.
Viollette Menefee
Viollette Menefee is known as the wife of American sportscaster and Fox NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee.
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B.
Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin is an American politician who served as the first female mayor of Atlanta and the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major Southern city.
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C.
Clarissa Brown
Clarissa Brown was the wife of American explorer and soldier Zebulon Pike, known for her connection to his early 19th-century expeditions and military career.
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D.
Patricia Price
Patricia Price is best known as the first wife of legendary American comedian and actor Richard Pryor.
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E.
Bonita Granville
Bonita Granville was an American film and television actress and producer best known for her early success as a child star, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "These Three" and her popular portrayal of Nancy Drew in the late 1930s 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: Viola Price Target entity description: Viola Price is the outspoken, tough-loving matriarch at the center of Terry McMillan’s novel "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," whose struggles to hold her fractured family together drive the story.
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A.
Viollette Menefee
Viollette Menefee is known as the wife of American sportscaster and Fox NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee.
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B.
Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin is an American politician who served as the first female mayor of Atlanta and the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major Southern city.
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C.
Clarissa Brown
Clarissa Brown was the wife of American explorer and soldier Zebulon Pike, known for her connection to his early 19th-century expeditions and military career.
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D.
Patricia Price
Patricia Price is best known as the first wife of legendary American comedian and actor Richard Pryor.
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E.
Bonita Granville
Bonita Granville was an American film and television actress and producer best known for her early success as a child star, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "These Three" and her popular portrayal of Nancy Drew in the late 1930s film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
African-American literature
ⓘ
linked to:
African American literature
|
| appearsInWork | A Day Late and a Dollar Short ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
outspoken
ⓘ
tough-loving ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalContext |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Terry McMillan ⓘ |
| drivesPlotOf | A Day Late and a Dollar Short ⓘ |
| familyRole | matriarch ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | contemporary fiction ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Charlotte Price
ⓘ
Janelle Price ⓘ Lewis Price ⓘ Paris Price ⓘ |
| hasFamily |
Price family
ⓘ
linked to:
Price
|
| hasGivenName | Viola ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Price ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Cecil Price ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | desire to reunite her family ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central figure holding family together ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person sections ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
health problems
ⓘ
strained relationships with children ⓘ |
| themeInvolving |
family dysfunction
ⓘ
forgiveness ⓘ intergenerational conflict ⓘ motherhood ⓘ |
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: Viola Price Description of subject: Viola Price is the outspoken, tough-loving matriarch at the center of Terry McMillan’s novel "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," whose struggles to hold her fractured family together drive the story.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.