Mrs. Henry Vale
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Mrs. Henry Vale, better known as Charlotte Vale, is the emotionally repressed Boston spinster who undergoes a profound personal transformation and romantic awakening in the classic novel and film "Now, Voyager."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Henry Vale canonical | 5 |
| Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis’s character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6673875 — 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: Mrs. Henry Vale Context triple: [Now, Voyager, mainCharacter, Mrs. Henry Vale]
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A.
Evelyn Venable
Evelyn Venable was an American actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known as the original visual model for the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and for voicing the Blue Fairy in Disney’s "Pinocchio."
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B.
Violet Venable
Violet Venable is a wealthy, domineering New Orleans matriarch in Tennessee Williams' play "Suddenly, Last Summer," obsessed with preserving the memory of her dead son at any cost.
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C.
Eleanor Vance
Eleanor Vance is the psychologically fragile protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," whose experiences in the haunted mansion drive the story’s exploration of fear and isolation.
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D.
Marian Forrester
Marian Forrester is the charismatic, enigmatic heroine of Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," symbolizing the fading grace and ideals of the American frontier aristocracy.
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E.
Countess Vaughn
Countess Vaughn is an American actress and singer best known for her comedic television roles in 1990s and early 2000s sitcoms.
- 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: Mrs. Henry Vale Target entity description: Mrs. Henry Vale, better known as Charlotte Vale, is the emotionally repressed Boston spinster who undergoes a profound personal transformation and romantic awakening in the classic novel and film "Now, Voyager."
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A.
Evelyn Venable
Evelyn Venable was an American actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best known as the original visual model for the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and for voicing the Blue Fairy in Disney’s "Pinocchio."
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B.
Violet Venable
Violet Venable is a wealthy, domineering New Orleans matriarch in Tennessee Williams' play "Suddenly, Last Summer," obsessed with preserving the memory of her dead son at any cost.
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C.
Eleanor Vance
Eleanor Vance is the psychologically fragile protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," whose experiences in the haunted mansion drive the story’s exploration of fear and isolation.
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D.
Marian Forrester
Marian Forrester is the charismatic, enigmatic heroine of Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," symbolizing the fading grace and ideals of the American frontier aristocracy.
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E.
Countess Vaughn
Countess Vaughn is an American actress and singer best known for her comedic television roles in 1990s and early 2000s sitcoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Mrs. Henry Vale Description of subject: Mrs. Henry Vale, better known as Charlotte Vale, is the emotionally repressed Boston spinster who undergoes a profound personal transformation and romantic awakening in the classic novel and film "Now, Voyager."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dr. Jaquith in Now, Voyager
Now, Voyager (score by Max Steiner)
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associatedWithCharacter
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Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis’s character)
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linked to: Mrs. Henry Vale
subject linked to:
Now, Voyager (novel)
subject linked to:
1942 film Now, Voyager