Tabitha Wheelwright
E794102
Tabitha Wheelwright is a key supporting character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," known as the narrator’s mother whose life and death profoundly shape the story’s emotional and moral landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tabitha Wheelwright canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9356497 — 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: Tabitha Wheelwright Context triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Tabitha Wheelwright]
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A.
Tabitha Grant
Tabitha Grant is the daughter of British actor Hugh Grant and his former partner Tinglan Hong.
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B.
Rebecca Blunt
Rebecca Blunt is a screenwriter best known for penning the heist comedy film "Logan Lucky."
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C.
Clarissa Vaughan
Clarissa Vaughan is a New York editor in Michael Cunningham’s novel "The Hours," whose day mirrors that of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as she prepares for a party while reflecting on love, mortality, and past relationships.
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D.
Sarah Winston
Sarah Winston was a colonial American woman best known as the mother of Founding Father and second U.S. President John Adams.
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E.
Tabitha King
Tabitha King is an American author known for her novels and short stories, and as the wife of writer Stephen King.
- 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: Tabitha Wheelwright Target entity description: Tabitha Wheelwright is a key supporting character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," known as the narrator’s mother whose life and death profoundly shape the story’s emotional and moral landscape.
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A.
Tabitha Grant
Tabitha Grant is the daughter of British actor Hugh Grant and his former partner Tinglan Hong.
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B.
Rebecca Blunt
Rebecca Blunt is a screenwriter best known for penning the heist comedy film "Logan Lucky."
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C.
Clarissa Vaughan
Clarissa Vaughan is a New York editor in Michael Cunningham’s novel "The Hours," whose day mirrors that of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as she prepares for a party while reflecting on love, mortality, and past relationships.
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D.
Sarah Winston
Sarah Winston was a colonial American woman best known as the mother of Founding Father and second U.S. President John Adams.
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E.
Tabitha King
Tabitha King is an American author known for her novels and short stories, and as the wife of writer Stephen King.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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novel A Prayer for Owen Meany ⓘ
linked to:
A Prayer for Owen Meany
|
| associatedWith | Owen Meany ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalContext |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | John Irving ⓘ |
| deathAffects |
John Wheelwright
ⓘ
Owen Meany ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild | John Wheelwright ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Tabitha ⓘ |
| hasRole |
narrator’s mother
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Wheelwright ⓘ |
| influences |
emotional landscape of A Prayer for Owen Meany
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moral landscape of A Prayer for Owen Meany ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for narrator’s development
ⓘ
source of central mystery in the plot ⓘ |
| partOf | A Prayer for Owen Meany characters ⓘ |
| relatedTo | John Wheelwright ⓘ |
| setting | New Hampshire ⓘ |
| themeConnection |
destiny
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faith ⓘ family relationships ⓘ loss ⓘ |
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: Tabitha Wheelwright Description of subject: Tabitha Wheelwright is a key supporting character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," known as the narrator’s mother whose life and death profoundly shape the story’s emotional and moral landscape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.