Mina Harker
E261892
Mina Harker is a central heroine in Bram Stoker’s novel "Dracula," known for her intelligence, moral strength, and crucial role in coordinating the fight against the vampire Count Dracula.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mina Harker canonical | 10 |
| Mina Harker in "Demons" | 1 |
| Mina Harker in Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1 |
| Mina Seward | 1 |
| Mina Seward (Dracula, 1931 film) | 1 |
| Wilhelmina Harker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2388733 — 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: Mina Harker Context triple: [Dracula, mainCharacter, Mina Harker]
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A.
Elizabeth Hunter Seward
Elizabeth Hunter Seward was the mother of English Romantic poet Anna Seward and a member of the 18th-century English literary and clerical milieu.
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B.
Claire Clairmont
Claire Clairmont was the stepsister of Mary Shelley and a member of the Romantic literary circle who is best known for her close association with Lord Byron and her involvement in the lives of several major writers of the era.
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C.
Marion Ravenwood
Marion Ravenwood is a tough, resourceful bar owner and adventurer best known as Indiana Jones’s spirited love interest and partner in the Indiana Jones film series.
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D.
Ericka Van Helsing
Ericka Van Helsing is a central character in the Hotel Transylvania animated film series, known as the adventurous and initially monster-hunting love interest of Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.
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E.
Drusilla
Drusilla was a Roman noblewoman of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, best known as the beloved sister of Emperor Caligula and a prominent figure in accounts of his controversial reign.
- 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: Mina Harker Target entity description: Mina Harker is a central heroine in Bram Stoker’s novel "Dracula," known for her intelligence, moral strength, and crucial role in coordinating the fight against the vampire Count Dracula.
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A.
Elizabeth Hunter Seward
Elizabeth Hunter Seward was the mother of English Romantic poet Anna Seward and a member of the 18th-century English literary and clerical milieu.
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B.
Claire Clairmont
Claire Clairmont was the stepsister of Mary Shelley and a member of the Romantic literary circle who is best known for her close association with Lord Byron and her involvement in the lives of several major writers of the era.
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C.
Marion Ravenwood
Marion Ravenwood is a tough, resourceful bar owner and adventurer best known as Indiana Jones’s spirited love interest and partner in the Indiana Jones film series.
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D.
Ericka Van Helsing
Ericka Van Helsing is a central character in the Hotel Transylvania animated film series, known as the adventurous and initially monster-hunting love interest of Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.
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E.
Drusilla
Drusilla was a Roman noblewoman of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, best known as the beloved sister of Emperor Caligula and a prominent figure in accounts of his controversial reign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
heroine ⓘ literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dracula ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Abraham Van Helsing
ⓘ
Arthur Holmwood ⓘ Count Dracula ⓘ John Seward ⓘ
surface form:
Dr. John Seward
Quincey Morris ⓘ |
| communicationForm |
diary entries
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letters ⓘ typewritten transcripts ⓘ |
| contributesTo | compilation of journals and letters about Dracula ⓘ |
| creator | Bram Stoker ⓘ |
| family | mother of Quincey Harker ⓘ |
| familyName | Harker ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1897 ⓘ |
| friend | Lucy Westenra ⓘ |
| fullName |
Mina Harker
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Wilhelmina Harker
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Wilhelmina ⓘ |
| inspiredAdaptations | numerous film adaptations of Dracula ⓘ |
| inUniverseReligion | Christian ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | iconic female character in Gothic literature ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | good ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central heroine
ⓘ
coordinator of the hunt for Dracula ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableAct |
encourages and supports the vampire hunters
ⓘ
helps track Dracula’s movements ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
brave
ⓘ
intelligent ⓘ morally strong ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| occupation |
assistant schoolmistress
ⓘ
schoolteacher ⓘ |
| roleInGroup | organizer of information about Dracula ⓘ |
| setting |
Victorian era
ⓘ
surface form:
Victorian England
|
| shortName | Mina ⓘ |
| spouse | Jonathan Harker ⓘ |
| statusInStory |
partially vampirized
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ultimately saved from vampirism ⓘ |
| uses |
shorthand
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typewriter ⓘ |
| victimOf | Count Dracula ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mina Harker Description of subject: Mina Harker is a central heroine in Bram Stoker’s novel "Dracula," known for her intelligence, moral strength, and crucial role in coordinating the fight against the vampire Count Dracula.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mina Harker in Bram Stoker's Dracula
subject surface form:
Renfield (Dracula, 1931 film)
this entity surface form:
Mina Seward (Dracula, 1931 film)
this entity surface form:
Wilhelmina Harker
this entity surface form:
Mina Seward
this entity surface form:
Mina Harker in "Demons"