Cissie Colpitts
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Cissie Colpitts is a central character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for her involvement in a generational tale of murder, games, and ritualized counting.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cissie Colpitts canonical | 1 |
| Cissie Colpitts II | 1 |
| Cissie Colpitts III | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9660879 — 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: Cissie Colpitts Context triple: [Drowning by Numbers, mainCharacter, Cissie Colpitts]
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A.
Dolly Wilcox
Dolly Wilcox is a member of the Wilcox family, a fictional upper-middle-class English family central to E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End."
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B.
Delia Mae Drinkard
Delia Mae Drinkard is a member of the Drinkard family, a gospel-rooted musical clan from which several notable American singers emerged.
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C.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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D.
Cissie Charlton
Cissie Charlton was a member of the prominent Charlton footballing family from North East England, connected to legendary Newcastle United striker Jackie Milburn.
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E.
Sally Yarnell
Sally Yarnell was an American actress known for her roles in mid-20th-century films and television.
- 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: Cissie Colpitts Target entity description: Cissie Colpitts is a central character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for her involvement in a generational tale of murder, games, and ritualized counting.
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A.
Dolly Wilcox
Dolly Wilcox is a member of the Wilcox family, a fictional upper-middle-class English family central to E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End."
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B.
Delia Mae Drinkard
Delia Mae Drinkard is a member of the Drinkard family, a gospel-rooted musical clan from which several notable American singers emerged.
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C.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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D.
Cissie Charlton
Cissie Charlton was a member of the prominent Charlton footballing family from North East England, connected to legendary Newcastle United striker Jackie Milburn.
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E.
Sally Yarnell
Sally Yarnell was an American actress known for her roles in mid-20th-century films and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Drowning by Numbers ⓘ |
| appearsInYearOfWorkRelease | 1988 ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
death
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family legacy ⓘ games ⓘ ritualized counting ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
drowning motif
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marital conflict ⓘ rural English setting ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkAppearance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Peter Greenaway ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
black comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction |
initiator of events
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participant in generational tale ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Cissie Colpitts 2
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Cissie Colpitts 3 ⓘ |
| involvedIn | murder plot ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearance | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| partOf | Colpitts family ⓘ |
| portrayedInMedium | live-action film ⓘ |
| toneOfWorkAppearedIn | darkly comic ⓘ |
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: Cissie Colpitts Description of subject: Cissie Colpitts is a central character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for her involvement in a generational tale of murder, games, and ritualized counting.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cissie Colpitts
linked to: Cissie Colpitts