Miss Jenny Du Pre
E375589
Miss Jenny Du Pre is a proud, sharp-tongued Southern matriarch in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, embodying the endurance and decaying ideals of the old aristocratic South.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aunt Jenny Du Pre | 1 |
| Miss Jenny Du Pre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3632703 — 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: Miss Jenny Du Pre Context triple: [Sartoris, featuresCharacter, Miss Jenny Du Pre]
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A.
Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
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B.
Tanaquil Le Clercq
Tanaquil Le Clercq was a celebrated mid-20th-century American ballerina and longtime New York City Ballet principal whose career was tragically cut short by polio.
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C.
Djuna
Djuna is a distinctive given name most famously associated with the modernist writer and artist Djuna Barnes.
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D.
June Duprez
June Duprez was a British film actress best known for her roles in 1940s dramas and adventure films, including the classic "The Thief of Bagdad."
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E.
Élisa Dehée
Élisa Dehée was a relative of the French poet Paul Verlaine, known primarily through her familial connection to him.
- 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: Miss Jenny Du Pre Target entity description: Miss Jenny Du Pre is a proud, sharp-tongued Southern matriarch in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, embodying the endurance and decaying ideals of the old aristocratic South.
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A.
Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
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B.
Tanaquil Le Clercq
Tanaquil Le Clercq was a celebrated mid-20th-century American ballerina and longtime New York City Ballet principal whose career was tragically cut short by polio.
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C.
Djuna
Djuna is a distinctive given name most famously associated with the modernist writer and artist Djuna Barnes.
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D.
June Duprez
June Duprez was a British film actress best known for her roles in 1940s dramas and adventure films, including the classic "The Thief of Bagdad."
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E.
Élisa Dehée
Élisa Dehée was a relative of the French poet Paul Verlaine, known primarily through her familial connection to him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southern matriarch
ⓘ
character in American literature ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Flags in the Dust
ⓘ
Sartoris ⓘ The Unvanquished ⓘ Yoknapatawpha saga ⓘ stories set in Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| appearsInUniverse |
Yoknapatawpha County
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoknapatawpha County fictional universe
|
| associatedWithTheme |
Southern aristocracy
ⓘ
decline of the Old South ⓘ family honor ⓘ memory and tradition ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
proud
ⓘ
sharp-tongued ⓘ strong-willed ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| embodies |
decaying ideals of the old aristocratic South
ⓘ
endurance of the old South ⓘ |
| familyAssociation | Sartoris family ⓘ |
| familyRole | matriarch ⓘ |
| fictionalCounty | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| fictionalResidence | Jefferson, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName |
du Pré
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surface form:
Du Pre
|
| hasGivenName | Jenny ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | link between antebellum South and modern South ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| regionalIdentity | Southern ⓘ |
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: Miss Jenny Du Pre Description of subject: Miss Jenny Du Pre is a proud, sharp-tongued Southern matriarch in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, embodying the endurance and decaying ideals of the old aristocratic South.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aunt Jenny Du Pre