Hester Eastman
E794104
Hester Eastman is a minor character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," appearing as part of the extended social and familial world surrounding the book’s central figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hester Eastman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9356499 — 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: Hester Eastman Context triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Hester Eastman]
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A.
Hester Sigerson
Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
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B.
Hester Mahieu
Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
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C.
Hester Pitt
Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
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D.
Hester Dewsbury
Hester Dewsbury was the wife of early Plymouth Colony settler Philip Delano, associated with the first generations of English colonists in New England.
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E.
Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New 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: Hester Eastman Target entity description: Hester Eastman is a minor character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," appearing as part of the extended social and familial world surrounding the book’s central figures.
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A.
Hester Sigerson
Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
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B.
Hester Mahieu
Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
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C.
Hester Pitt
Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
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D.
Hester Dewsbury
Hester Dewsbury was the wife of early Plymouth Colony settler Philip Delano, associated with the first generations of English colonists in New England.
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E.
Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Prayer for Owen Meany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States (literary context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | John Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | A Prayer for Owen Meany fictional universe ⓘ |
| hasRole | minor character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
extended familial world in A Prayer for Owen Meany
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extended social world in A Prayer for Owen Meany ⓘ |
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: Hester Eastman Description of subject: Hester Eastman is a minor character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," appearing as part of the extended social and familial world surrounding the book’s central figures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.