Amanda Wingfield is Laura Wingfield’s mother
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Amanda Wingfield is a domineering yet deeply anxious Southern mother in Tennessee Williams’ play "The Glass Menagerie," obsessed with securing her daughter Laura’s future and clinging to memories of her own faded gentility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amanda Wingfield is Laura Wingfield’s mother canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10453013 — 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.
Target entity: Amanda Wingfield is Laura Wingfield’s mother Context triple: [The Glass Menagerie, characterRelationship, Amanda Wingfield is Laura Wingfield’s mother]
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Alice Wright Mann
Alice Wright Mann was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) at its launching.
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B.
character Lena Younger
Lena Younger is the deeply religious, resilient matriarch of the Younger family in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun," whose dreams and moral strength anchor the story’s exploration of race, class, and family.
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C.
Ruth Younger
Ruth Younger is a hardworking, pragmatic wife and mother in Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun," embodying the struggles and resilience of a Black working-class family in mid-20th-century Chicago.
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D.
Aunt Maud Lowder
Aunt Maud Lowder is a wealthy, domineering society matron in Henry James’s novel "The Wings of the Dove," whose influence and ambitions shape the fates of the central characters.
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E.
Mrs. Mott in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Mrs. Mott is the vengeful, psychopathic nanny and main antagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Amanda Wingfield is Laura Wingfield’s mother Target entity description: Amanda Wingfield is a domineering yet deeply anxious Southern mother in Tennessee Williams’ play "The Glass Menagerie," obsessed with securing her daughter Laura’s future and clinging to memories of her own faded gentility.
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A.
Alice Wright Mann
Alice Wright Mann was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) at its launching.
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B.
character Lena Younger
Lena Younger is the deeply religious, resilient matriarch of the Younger family in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun," whose dreams and moral strength anchor the story’s exploration of race, class, and family.
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C.
Ruth Younger
Ruth Younger is a hardworking, pragmatic wife and mother in Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun," embodying the struggles and resilience of a Black working-class family in mid-20th-century Chicago.
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D.
Aunt Maud Lowder
Aunt Maud Lowder is a wealthy, domineering society matron in Henry James’s novel "The Wings of the Dove," whose influence and ambitions shape the fates of the central characters.
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E.
Mrs. Mott in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Mrs. Mott is the vengeful, psychopathic nanny and main antagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Glass Menagerie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorialFunction | embodiment of clinging to the past ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
anxious
ⓘ
controlling ⓘ domineering ⓘ nostalgic ⓘ overprotective ⓘ talkative ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Tom Wingfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Tennessee Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalBackground | Southern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction | source of familial pressure ⓘ |
| familyName | Wingfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Glass Menagerie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Glass Menagerie (1944 play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Amanda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Glass Menagerie (1950 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Glass Menagerie (1987 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Laura Wingfield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Wingfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | memory play ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
desire to secure Laura Wingfield’s future
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economic insecurity ⓘ fear of abandonment ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| obsession |
finding a gentleman caller for Laura Wingfield
ⓘ
memories of her youth in Blue Mountain ⓘ |
| occupation |
former Southern belle
ⓘ
telephone subscription salesperson ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Gertrude Lawrence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jessica Lange NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanne Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ Katharine Hepburn NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurette Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipToLauraWingfield | mother GENERATED ⓘ |
| relationshipToTomWingfield | mother GENERATED ⓘ |
| remembers | having many gentlemen callers in her youth ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
mother of Laura Wingfield
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mother of Tom Wingfield ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mr. Wingfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Amanda Wingfield is Laura Wingfield’s mother Description of subject: Amanda Wingfield is a domineering yet deeply anxious Southern mother in Tennessee Williams’ play "The Glass Menagerie," obsessed with securing her daughter Laura’s future and clinging to memories of her own faded gentility.
Referenced by (1)
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