Mr. Henry Dashwood
E115230
Mr. Henry Dashwood is the deceased patriarch of the Dashwood family in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility," whose death and inheritance arrangements leave his wife and daughters in reduced circumstances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Henry Dashwood canonical | 3 |
| old Mr. Dashwood | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971690 — 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: Mr. Henry Dashwood Context triple: [Elinor Dashwood, childOf, Mr. Henry Dashwood]
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Elinor Dashwood
Elinor Dashwood is the sensible, composed eldest Dashwood sister in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility," known for her restraint, practicality, and quiet emotional strength.
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B.
Mrs. Elton
Mrs. Elton is a supporting character in Terence Rattigan’s play and its film adaptations "The Deep Blue Sea," representing the conventional, judgmental middle-class society surrounding the troubled heroine.
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C.
Margaret Schlegel
Margaret Schlegel is the intelligent, idealistic, and culturally minded heroine of E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," who navigates issues of class, family, and social responsibility in Edwardian England.
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D.
Elizabeth Wrottesley
Elizabeth Wrottesley was an 18th-century British noblewoman best known as the wife of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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E.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
- 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: Mr. Henry Dashwood Target entity description: Mr. Henry Dashwood is the deceased patriarch of the Dashwood family in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility," whose death and inheritance arrangements leave his wife and daughters in reduced circumstances.
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A.
Elinor Dashwood
Elinor Dashwood is the sensible, composed eldest Dashwood sister in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility," known for her restraint, practicality, and quiet emotional strength.
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B.
Mrs. Elton
Mrs. Elton is a supporting character in Terence Rattigan’s play and its film adaptations "The Deep Blue Sea," representing the conventional, judgmental middle-class society surrounding the troubled heroine.
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C.
Margaret Schlegel
Margaret Schlegel is the intelligent, idealistic, and culturally minded heroine of E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," who navigates issues of class, family, and social responsibility in Edwardian England.
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D.
Elizabeth Wrottesley
Elizabeth Wrottesley was an 18th-century British noblewoman best known as the wife of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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E.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Mr. Henry Dashwood Description of subject: Mr. Henry Dashwood is the deceased patriarch of the Dashwood family in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility," whose death and inheritance arrangements leave his wife and daughters in reduced circumstances.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
old Mr. Dashwood