Mrs Renton
E867009
Mrs Renton is the mother of Mark Renton, the troubled protagonist of Irvine Welsh’s novel and the film adaptation "Trainspotting."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs Renton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10488419 — 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: Mrs Renton Context triple: [Mark Renton, familyMember, Mrs Renton]
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A.
Dorothy Renton
Dorothy Renton was a Scottish plantswoman and gardener best known for co-creating the renowned Branklyn Garden in Perth, celebrated for its rare and exotic plant collections.
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B.
Margaret Lamont
Margaret Lamont is the central female protagonist in the 1925 silent drama film "The Golden Bed," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic conflicts revolve.
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C.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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D.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly documented in widely available sources.
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E.
Elizabeth Dundas
Elizabeth Dundas was a Scottish noblewoman of the early 18th century, best known as the mother of John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair.
- 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: Mrs Renton Target entity description: Mrs Renton is the mother of Mark Renton, the troubled protagonist of Irvine Welsh’s novel and the film adaptation "Trainspotting."
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A.
Dorothy Renton
Dorothy Renton was a Scottish plantswoman and gardener best known for co-creating the renowned Branklyn Garden in Perth, celebrated for its rare and exotic plant collections.
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B.
Margaret Lamont
Margaret Lamont is the central female protagonist in the 1925 silent drama film "The Golden Bed," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic conflicts revolve.
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C.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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D.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly documented in widely available sources.
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E.
Elizabeth Dundas
Elizabeth Dundas was a Scottish noblewoman of the early 18th century, best known as the mother of John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Trainspotting
NERFINISHED
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Trainspotting (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Trainspotting (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Irvine Welsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Trainspotting universe ⓘ |
| hasChild | Mark Renton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Renton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherOf | Mark Renton 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: Mrs Renton Description of subject: Mrs Renton is the mother of Mark Renton, the troubled protagonist of Irvine Welsh’s novel and the film adaptation "Trainspotting."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.