Mrs. Vernon
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Mrs. Vernon is a central, morally grounded character in Jane Austen’s novella "Lady Susan," serving as a foil to the manipulative title character.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Vernon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8323637 — 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. Vernon Context triple: [Lady Susan, featuresCharacter, Mrs. Vernon]
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A.
Mrs. Wilcox
Mrs. Wilcox is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Howards End," an elderly, gentle, and spiritually minded matriarch whose values and legacy profoundly influence the story's events and relationships.
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B.
Nanny Crawford
Nanny Crawford is Janie Crawford’s grandmother and guardian in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," known for her protective, pragmatic worldview shaped by slavery and hardship.
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C.
Mrs. Wallington
Mrs. Wallington is the namesake of Mrs. Wallington's School, likely an influential educator or benefactor associated with its founding or legacy.
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D.
Harriet Westbrook
Harriet Westbrook was the first wife of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose tragic early death and troubled marriage have drawn significant biographical interest.
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E.
Gertrude Vernon
Gertrude Vernon, better known as Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, is chiefly remembered as the elegant sitter in John Singer Sargent’s famous 1892 portrait that bears her title.
- 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. Vernon Target entity description: Mrs. Vernon is a central, morally grounded character in Jane Austen’s novella "Lady Susan," serving as a foil to the manipulative title character.
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A.
Mrs. Wilcox
Mrs. Wilcox is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Howards End," an elderly, gentle, and spiritually minded matriarch whose values and legacy profoundly influence the story's events and relationships.
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B.
Nanny Crawford
Nanny Crawford is Janie Crawford’s grandmother and guardian in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," known for her protective, pragmatic worldview shaped by slavery and hardship.
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C.
Mrs. Wallington
Mrs. Wallington is the namesake of Mrs. Wallington's School, likely an influential educator or benefactor associated with its founding or legacy.
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D.
Harriet Westbrook
Harriet Westbrook was the first wife of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose tragic early death and troubled marriage have drawn significant biographical interest.
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E.
Gertrude Vernon
Gertrude Vernon, better known as Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, is chiefly remembered as the elegant sitter in John Singer Sargent’s famous 1892 portrait that bears her title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novella
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lady Susan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInForm | epistolary narrative ⓘ |
| concernedAbout | Frederica Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Lady Susan Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jane Austen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasMoralAlignment | morally grounded ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipTypeWith | sister-in-law of Lady Susan Vernon ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Lady Susan Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
central character
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foil ⓘ |
| isFoilTo | Lady Susan Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Regency era literature ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
moral center of the story
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moral observer ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
dutiful
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kind ⓘ prudent ⓘ sensible ⓘ |
| protectiveTowards | Frederica Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeOf | Charles Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Churchill (the Vernons' country estate) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Charles Vernon 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. Vernon Description of subject: Mrs. Vernon is a central, morally grounded character in Jane Austen’s novella "Lady Susan," serving as a foil to the manipulative title character.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.