Mrs. Claypool
E887463
Mrs. Claypool is a wealthy, socially ambitious widow who becomes entangled with the Marx Brothers’ comic schemes in the film "A Night at the Opera."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Claypool canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10812386 — 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. Claypool Context triple: [A Night at the Opera, featuresCharacter, Mrs. Claypool]
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A.
Mrs. Haggett
Mrs. Haggett is a central, socially ambitious matriarch in Sidney Howard’s play "The Late Christopher Bean," whose reactions to an unexpected artistic legacy drive much of the story’s comedy and conflict.
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B.
Mrs. Hill
Mrs. Hill is the housekeeper at Longbourn in Jane Austen’s novel "Pride and Prejudice," overseeing the Bennet household’s domestic affairs.
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C.
Mrs. Harling
Mrs. Harling is a strong-willed, warm-hearted matron in Willa Cather’s "My Ántonia" who provides Ántonia with a lively, nurturing home in town.
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D.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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E.
Mrs. Hawkins
Mrs. Hawkins is Jim Hawkins’s practical and courageous mother in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
- 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. Claypool Target entity description: Mrs. Claypool is a wealthy, socially ambitious widow who becomes entangled with the Marx Brothers’ comic schemes in the film "A Night at the Opera."
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A.
Mrs. Haggett
Mrs. Haggett is a central, socially ambitious matriarch in Sidney Howard’s play "The Late Christopher Bean," whose reactions to an unexpected artistic legacy drive much of the story’s comedy and conflict.
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B.
Mrs. Hill
Mrs. Hill is the housekeeper at Longbourn in Jane Austen’s novel "Pride and Prejudice," overseeing the Bennet household’s domestic affairs.
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C.
Mrs. Harling
Mrs. Harling is a strong-willed, warm-hearted matron in Willa Cather’s "My Ántonia" who provides Ántonia with a lively, nurturing home in town.
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D.
Mrs. Baylock
Mrs. Baylock is the sinister nanny and devoted protector of the Antichrist child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
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E.
Mrs. Hawkins
Mrs. Hawkins is Jim Hawkins’s practical and courageous mother in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Night at the Opera ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Marx Brothers ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
easily flustered
ⓘ
gullible ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | A Night at the Opera ⓘ |
| entangledIn | comic schemes ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | A Night at the Opera ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreContext | comedy ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Fiorello
ⓘ
Otis B. Driftwood ⓘ Tomasso ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | comic foil ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Margaret Dumont ⓘ |
| primarySetting |
ocean liner
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opera house ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
socially ambitious
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wealthy ⓘ |
| workDirector | Sam Wood ⓘ |
| workProductionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
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. Claypool Description of subject: Mrs. Claypool is a wealthy, socially ambitious widow who becomes entangled with the Marx Brothers’ comic schemes in the film "A Night at the Opera."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.