Mary Matchwell
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Mary Matchwell is a sinister fortune-teller and con artist who plays a key role in the intrigue and supernatural overtones of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel "The House by the Churchyard."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Matchwell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11203681 — 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: Mary Matchwell Context triple: [The House by the Churchyard, hasNotableCharacter, Mary Matchwell]
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A.
Eileen Morrow
Eileen Morrow is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Morrow.
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B.
Maria Andrews
Maria Andrews is an American woman known primarily as the wife of businessman Neil Bush, a member of the prominent Bush political family.
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C.
Susan Morrow
Susan Morrow is the central protagonist of the film "Nocturnal Animals," a successful but emotionally conflicted art gallery owner whose past and present collide when she reads her ex-husband’s disturbing manuscript.
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D.
Rosemary Hoyt
Rosemary Hoyt is a young American film actress in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "Tender Is the Night," whose infatuation with Dick Diver catalyzes much of the story’s romantic and psychological tension.
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E.
Mary Lee Pfeiffer
Mary Lee Pfeiffer is the mother of actor Tom Cruise and the maternal grandmother of Suri Cruise.
- 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: Mary Matchwell Target entity description: Mary Matchwell is a sinister fortune-teller and con artist who plays a key role in the intrigue and supernatural overtones of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel "The House by the Churchyard."
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A.
Eileen Morrow
Eileen Morrow is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Morrow.
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B.
Maria Andrews
Maria Andrews is an American woman known primarily as the wife of businessman Neil Bush, a member of the prominent Bush political family.
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C.
Susan Morrow
Susan Morrow is the central protagonist of the film "Nocturnal Animals," a successful but emotionally conflicted art gallery owner whose past and present collide when she reads her ex-husband’s disturbing manuscript.
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D.
Rosemary Hoyt
Rosemary Hoyt is a young American film actress in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "Tender Is the Night," whose infatuation with Dick Diver catalyzes much of the story’s romantic and psychological tension.
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E.
Mary Lee Pfeiffer
Mary Lee Pfeiffer is the mother of actor Tom Cruise and the maternal grandmother of Suri Cruise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The House by the Churchyard ⓘ |
| appearsInForm | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInSetting |
Chapelizod
ⓘ
a village near Dublin ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | ghost story ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
deception
ⓘ
fraud ⓘ mystery ⓘ supernatural ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Ireland ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
ⓘ
linked to:
Sheridan Le Fanu
|
| firstPublishedInWork | 1863 ⓘ |
| genreContext |
Gothic fiction
ⓘ
Victorian literature ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | sinister ⓘ |
| hasMoralAlignment | villainous ⓘ |
| hasRole | antagonist ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contributes to supernatural overtones
ⓘ
drives intrigue ⓘ |
| occupation |
con artist
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fortune-teller ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of characters in The House by the Churchyard ⓘ |
| usesMethod | fortune-telling to deceive others ⓘ |
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: Mary Matchwell Description of subject: Mary Matchwell is a sinister fortune-teller and con artist who plays a key role in the intrigue and supernatural overtones of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel "The House by the Churchyard."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.