Mrs. Dashwood
E124470
Mrs. Dashwood is the warm but imprudent widowed mother of the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Dashwood canonical | 16 |
| Mrs Dashwood | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971689 — 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. Dashwood Context triple: [Elinor Dashwood, childOf, Mrs. Dashwood]
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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.
Margaret Dashwood
Margaret Dashwood is the lively and youngest Dashwood sister in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," known for her spirited and impressionable nature.
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C.
Marianne Dashwood
Marianne Dashwood is the passionate, romantic younger Dashwood sister in Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility," whose emotional nature and idealism contrast with her sister Elinor’s restraint and practicality.
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D.
Mr. Henry Dashwood
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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E.
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.
- 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. Dashwood Target entity description: Mrs. Dashwood is the warm but imprudent widowed mother of the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility."
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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.
Margaret Dashwood
Margaret Dashwood is the lively and youngest Dashwood sister in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," known for her spirited and impressionable nature.
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C.
Marianne Dashwood
Marianne Dashwood is the passionate, romantic younger Dashwood sister in Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility," whose emotional nature and idealism contrast with her sister Elinor’s restraint and practicality.
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D.
Mr. Henry Dashwood
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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. Dashwood Description of subject: Mrs. Dashwood is the warm but imprudent widowed mother of the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mrs Dashwood