Jean Brodie
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Jean Brodie is a charismatic and unorthodox schoolteacher in 1930s Edinburgh whose strong influence over her select group of students drives the central drama of the story.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean Brodie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10452662 — 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: Jean Brodie Context triple: [The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (stage), mainCharacter, Jean Brodie]
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A.
John Brodie
John Brodie was a British civil engineer best known for his major infrastructure projects in Liverpool, including pioneering road tunnels and urban planning innovations.
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B.
John Brodie
John Brodie is a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who became a prominent American football television commentator.
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C.
Malcolm Brodie
Malcolm Brodie is a Canadian municipal politician who has served for many years as the mayor of Richmond, British Columbia.
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D.
Francis Begbie
Francis Begbie is a violently unpredictable and psychopathic Scottish hardman who serves as one of the most feared and volatile characters in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting universe.
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E.
Hughie Warriner
Hughie Warriner is a fictional character from the 1989 thriller film "Dead Calm," portrayed as a disturbed and manipulative survivor encountered at sea.
- 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: Jean Brodie Target entity description: Jean Brodie is a charismatic and unorthodox schoolteacher in 1930s Edinburgh whose strong influence over her select group of students drives the central drama of the story.
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A.
John Brodie
John Brodie was a British civil engineer best known for his major infrastructure projects in Liverpool, including pioneering road tunnels and urban planning innovations.
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B.
John Brodie
John Brodie is a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who became a prominent American football television commentator.
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C.
Malcolm Brodie
Malcolm Brodie is a Canadian municipal politician who has served for many years as the mayor of Richmond, British Columbia.
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D.
Francis Begbie
Francis Begbie is a violently unpredictable and psychopathic Scottish hardman who serves as one of the most feared and volatile characters in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting universe.
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E.
Hughie Warriner
Hughie Warriner is a fictional character from the 1989 thriller film "Dead Calm," portrayed as a disturbed and manipulative survivor encountered at sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedAsCharacterIn |
1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
stage play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| admires |
Benito Mussolini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Francisco Franco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
charismatic authority
ⓘ
moral responsibility ⓘ political indoctrination ⓘ |
| betrayedBy | Sandy Stranger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeIn |
betrayal
ⓘ
coming of age ⓘ teacher–student influence ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Muriel Spark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Brodie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Jean Brodie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConflictWith |
Miss Mackay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
school administration ⓘ |
| hasGroup | the Brodie set NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | fascist sympathies ⓘ |
| influences | the Brodie set NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | modernist fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
protagonist
ⓘ
title character ⓘ |
| occupation |
schoolteacher
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
domineering ⓘ idealistic ⓘ manipulative ⓘ unorthodox ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Geraldine McEwan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maggie Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanessa Redgrave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfLife |
Edinburgh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ |
| teachesAt | Marcia Blaine School for Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teachesSubject |
art appreciation
ⓘ
history ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| workLocation | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jean Brodie Description of subject: Jean Brodie is a charismatic and unorthodox schoolteacher in 1930s Edinburgh whose strong influence over her select group of students drives the central drama of the story.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jean Brodie