Mrs. Weston
E656538
Mrs. Weston is a kind, gentle, and sensible former governess who becomes a close confidante and maternal figure within the social world of Jane Austen’s novel "Emma."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Weston canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7325741 — 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. Weston Context triple: [Emma (novel), mainCharacter, Mrs. Weston]
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A.
Fanny Dashwood
Fanny Dashwood is a selfish and manipulative character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," known for her greed and unkind treatment of her in-laws.
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B.
Mrs. Ferrars
Mrs. Ferrars is the wealthy, domineering mother in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," known for her harsh control over her children's marriages and fortunes.
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C.
Fanny Aubrey
Fanny Aubrey is a fictional daughter of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
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D.
Mrs. Dashwood
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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E.
Lady Laura Waldegrave
Lady Laura Waldegrave was a 19th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, a prominent lawyer and statesman.
- 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. Weston Target entity description: Mrs. Weston is a kind, gentle, and sensible former governess who becomes a close confidante and maternal figure within the social world of Jane Austen’s novel "Emma."
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A.
Fanny Dashwood
Fanny Dashwood is a selfish and manipulative character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," known for her greed and unkind treatment of her in-laws.
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B.
Mrs. Ferrars
Mrs. Ferrars is the wealthy, domineering mother in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," known for her harsh control over her children's marriages and fortunes.
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C.
Fanny Aubrey
Fanny Aubrey is a fictional daughter of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
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D.
Mrs. Dashwood
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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E.
Lady Laura Waldegrave
Lady Laura Waldegrave was a 19th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, a prominent lawyer and statesman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ governess ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Emma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
novel of manners
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romantic fiction ⓘ |
| authorWork | Emma by Jane Austen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
affectionate
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gentle ⓘ kind ⓘ optimistic ⓘ sensible ⓘ tactful ⓘ |
| closeTo | Emma Woodhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confidanteOf | Emma Woodhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jane Austen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Emma (1815) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | governess to Emma Woodhouse ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Anne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMaidenName | Miss Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMarriedName | Mrs. Weston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century English literature ⓘ |
| livesNear | Hartfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maternalFigureTo | Emma Woodhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | governess ⓘ |
| residesIn | Randalls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
former governess who remains a close friend of Emma Woodhouse
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link between Emma Woodhouse and Frank Churchill ⓘ mediator in social and romantic misunderstandings ⓘ |
| setInCountry | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Highbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Regency era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialCircleIncludes |
Frank Churchill
NERFINISHED
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Harriet Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Fairfax NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Knightley NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Woodhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mr. Weston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stepChild | Frank Churchill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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. Weston Description of subject: Mrs. Weston is a kind, gentle, and sensible former governess who becomes a close confidante and maternal figure within the social world of Jane Austen’s novel "Emma."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Emma (novel)