May Cotton
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May Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of Rosie Cotton’s sisters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| May Cotton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11152014 — 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: May Cotton Context triple: [Rosie Cotton, sibling, May Cotton]
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A.
Betsy Brantley
Betsy Brantley is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including roles in productions such as "The Princess Bride" and "Deep Impact."
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B.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Cissie Colpitts
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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D.
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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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: May Cotton Target entity description: May Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of Rosie Cotton’s sisters.
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A.
Betsy Brantley
Betsy Brantley is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including roles in productions such as "The Princess Bride" and "Deep Impact."
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B.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Cissie Colpitts
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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D.
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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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 (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shire-hobbit
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ hobbit ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Lord of the Rings appendices ⓘ |
| countryInFiction |
The Shire, Eriador
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shire
|
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Hobbit ⓘ |
| familyName | Cotton ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | legendarium character ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| homeLocation | The Shire ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Westron (represented by English) ⓘ |
| race | Hobbit ⓘ |
| sibling | Rosie Cotton ⓘ |
| universe | Middle-earth ⓘ |
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: May Cotton Description of subject: May Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of Rosie Cotton’s sisters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.