Kate (Tam's wife)
E651815
Kate (Tam's wife) is the long-suffering, sharp-tongued spouse of the drunken farmer Tam in Robert Burns's narrative poem "Tam o' Shanter."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kate (Tam's wife) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7245959 — 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: Kate (Tam's wife) Context triple: [Tam o' Shanter, featuresCharacter, Kate (Tam's wife)]
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A.
Tamar Thomas
Tamar Thomas is a film producer known for her work on the critically acclaimed 2021 drama "Belfast," directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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B.
Tammy
"Tammy" is a popular 1957 ballad closely associated with the film "Tammy and the Bachelor" and widely remembered for its romantic, nostalgic melody.
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C.
Tammy
Tammy is a resourceful, quirky suburban mom-turned-criminal and a key member of the heist crew in the film "Ocean's 8," portrayed by Sarah Paulson.
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D.
Kathryn
Kathryn is a feminine given name, commonly considered a variant spelling of Katherine/Catherine.
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E.
Kima Raynor
Kima Raynor is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the girl group Total, which rose to prominence in the 1990s under Bad Boy Records.
- 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: Kate (Tam's wife) Target entity description: Kate (Tam's wife) is the long-suffering, sharp-tongued spouse of the drunken farmer Tam in Robert Burns's narrative poem "Tam o' Shanter."
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A.
Tamar Thomas
Tamar Thomas is a film producer known for her work on the critically acclaimed 2021 drama "Belfast," directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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B.
Tammy
"Tammy" is a popular 1957 ballad closely associated with the film "Tammy and the Bachelor" and widely remembered for its romantic, nostalgic melody.
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C.
Tammy
Tammy is a resourceful, quirky suburban mom-turned-criminal and a key member of the heist crew in the film "Ocean's 8," portrayed by Sarah Paulson.
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D.
Kathryn
Kathryn is a feminine given name, commonly considered a variant spelling of Katherine/Catherine.
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E.
Kima Raynor
Kima Raynor is an American R&B singer best known as a member of the girl group Total, which rose to prominence in the 1990s under Bad Boy Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ poetry character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Tam o' Shanter ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
domestic responsibility
ⓘ
marital conflict ⓘ temperance ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| createdBy | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| describedAs |
long-suffering
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sharp-tongued ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | world of Robert Burns's poems ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWorkAppearedIn | 1791 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | narrative poem ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | Scots ⓘ |
| mediumOfWorkAppearedIn | poetry ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
foil to Tam's recklessness
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source of comic tension ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
concerned spouse
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scolding wife ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
voice of domestic caution
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wife of the drunken farmer Tam ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Tam o' Shanter ⓘ |
| warns | Tam o' Shanter ⓘ |
| warnsAbout |
the dangers of drinking
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the dangers of staying out late ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| workTitle | Tam o' Shanter ⓘ |
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: Kate (Tam's wife) Description of subject: Kate (Tam's wife) is the long-suffering, sharp-tongued spouse of the drunken farmer Tam in Robert Burns's narrative poem "Tam o' Shanter."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.