Eva Galli / Alma Mobley
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Eva Galli / Alma Mobley is a mysterious, shape-shifting female entity at the center of Peter Straub’s horror novel "Ghost Story," known for haunting a group of elderly men with the consequences of their past.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eva Galli / Alma Mobley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8305077 — 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: Eva Galli / Alma Mobley Context triple: [Alice Krige, role, Eva Galli / Alma Mobley]
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A.
Charlotte Moorman
Charlotte Moorman was an avant-garde American cellist and performance artist known for her experimental collaborations and boundary-pushing multimedia performances.
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B.
Eva Clayton
Eva Clayton is an American politician who became the first African American woman to represent North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1992 to 2003.
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C.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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D.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Mary Lou Adams
Mary Lou Adams is best known as the former wife of American pop artist James Rosenquist.
- 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: Eva Galli / Alma Mobley Target entity description: Eva Galli / Alma Mobley is a mysterious, shape-shifting female entity at the center of Peter Straub’s horror novel "Ghost Story," known for haunting a group of elderly men with the consequences of their past.
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A.
Charlotte Moorman
Charlotte Moorman was an avant-garde American cellist and performance artist known for her experimental collaborations and boundary-pushing multimedia performances.
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B.
Eva Clayton
Eva Clayton is an American politician who became the first African American woman to represent North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1992 to 2003.
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C.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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D.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Mary Lou Adams
Mary Lou Adams is best known as the former wife of American pop artist James Rosenquist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ shape-shifter ⓘ supernatural entity ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Alma Mobley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ann-Veronica Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Anna Mostyn NERFINISHED ⓘ Eva Galli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ghost Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | the town of Milburn, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOf | the deaths of several members of the Chowder Society ⓘ |
| centralTo | the Chowder Society’s shared secret ⓘ |
| createdBy | Peter Straub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Edward Wanderley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Jaffrey NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Benedikt NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricky Hawthorne NERFINISHED ⓘ Sears James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Ghost Story (1979 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | horror fiction character ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
inducing fear
ⓘ
manipulation ⓘ seduction ⓘ shape-shifting ⓘ |
| motivation |
punishing those who wronged her
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for the events of Ghost Story
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embodiment of past guilt ⓘ |
| nationality | unknown ⓘ |
| notableFor |
haunting a group of elderly men
ⓘ
seeking revenge for a past crime ⓘ |
| occupation | vengeful spirit ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Ghost Story (1981 film adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary antagonist in Ghost Story ⓘ |
| species | supernatural being ⓘ |
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: Eva Galli / Alma Mobley Description of subject: Eva Galli / Alma Mobley is a mysterious, shape-shifting female entity at the center of Peter Straub’s horror novel "Ghost Story," known for haunting a group of elderly men with the consequences of their past.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.