Lady Sylvia McCordle
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Lady Sylvia McCordle is a wealthy, aristocratic Englishwoman and central character in the film "Gosford Park," known for presiding over a country estate rife with social tensions and secrets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lady Sylvia McCordle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11356846 — 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: Lady Sylvia McCordle Context triple: [Sylvia McCordle, hasTitle, Lady Sylvia McCordle]
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A.
Elizabeth Armistead
Elizabeth Armistead was an 18th-century English courtesan and later the respected wife and companion of prominent Whig statesman Charles James Fox.
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B.
Rowena Morrill
Rowena Morrill was an influential American science fiction and fantasy artist renowned for her vivid, imaginative book and magazine cover illustrations.
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C.
Faith Faulconbridge
Faith Faulconbridge is a British artist best known as the first wife of Christopher Tolkien, the son and literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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D.
Sibyl Marshal
Sibyl Marshal was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman and daughter of the famed knight and statesman William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
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E.
Lady Larken
Lady Larken is a romantic, high-strung noblewoman in the musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress," whose secret pregnancy drives much of the plot’s urgency and humor.
- 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: Lady Sylvia McCordle Target entity description: Lady Sylvia McCordle is a wealthy, aristocratic Englishwoman and central character in the film "Gosford Park," known for presiding over a country estate rife with social tensions and secrets.
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A.
Elizabeth Armistead
Elizabeth Armistead was an 18th-century English courtesan and later the respected wife and companion of prominent Whig statesman Charles James Fox.
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B.
Rowena Morrill
Rowena Morrill was an influential American science fiction and fantasy artist renowned for her vivid, imaginative book and magazine cover illustrations.
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C.
Faith Faulconbridge
Faith Faulconbridge is a British artist best known as the first wife of Christopher Tolkien, the son and literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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D.
Sibyl Marshal
Sibyl Marshal was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman and daughter of the famed knight and statesman William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
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E.
Lady Larken
Lady Larken is a romantic, high-strung noblewoman in the musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress," whose secret pregnancy drives much of the plot’s urgency and humor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Englishwoman
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aristocrat ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gosford Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
class tension
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family secrets ⓘ social hierarchy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritative
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snobbish ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Julian Fellowes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdForWork | Gosford Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Gosford Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | film Gosford Park (2001) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
mystery film
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period drama film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| householdRole | presides over household staff ⓘ |
| languageOfFictionalUniverse | English ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Sir William McCordle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kristin Scott Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lady of the manor ⓘ |
| relatedTo | McCordle family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesAt | Gosford Park country estate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | English countryside ⓘ |
| socialClass | British upper class ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalUniverse | early 1930s ⓘ |
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: Lady Sylvia McCordle Description of subject: Lady Sylvia McCordle is a wealthy, aristocratic Englishwoman and central character in the film "Gosford Park," known for presiding over a country estate rife with social tensions and secrets.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sylvia McCordle