Marner
E1003037
Marner is the surname of Silas Marner, the reclusive weaver and central character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," which becomes the adoptive family name of the child Eppie.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12773548 — 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: Marner Context triple: [Eppie, adoptiveFamilyName, Marner]
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A.
The Hayemaker
The Hayemaker is the ring nickname of British former world heavyweight and cruiserweight boxing champion David Haye.
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B.
The Kenilworth
The Kenilworth is a historic luxury apartment building in Manhattan, New York City, known for its French Second Empire architectural style and prominent location overlooking Central Park.
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C.
Under the Willows
Under the Willows is a poem by James Russell Lowell that reflects on nature, memory, and the passage of time beneath willow trees.
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D.
The Ploughman
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
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E.
The Shepherd
The Shepherd is a pastoral painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert, exemplifying his refined treatment of rural subjects and atmospheric landscapes.
- 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: Marner Target entity description: Marner is the surname of Silas Marner, the reclusive weaver and central character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," which becomes the adoptive family name of the child Eppie.
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A.
The Hayemaker
The Hayemaker is the ring nickname of British former world heavyweight and cruiserweight boxing champion David Haye.
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B.
The Kenilworth
The Kenilworth is a historic luxury apartment building in Manhattan, New York City, known for its French Second Empire architectural style and prominent location overlooking Central Park.
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C.
Under the Willows
Under the Willows is a poem by James Russell Lowell that reflects on nature, memory, and the passage of time beneath willow trees.
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D.
The Ploughman
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
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E.
The Shepherd
The Shepherd is a pastoral painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert, exemplifying his refined treatment of rural subjects and atmospheric landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional surname
ⓘ
literary surname ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
English literature
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Victorian novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Silas Marner ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkByAuthor | George Eliot ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
community
ⓘ
family ⓘ identity ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Eliot ⓘ |
| familyNameOf |
Eppie Marner
ⓘ
Silas Marner ⓘ |
| fictionalContext | Raveloe ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | Silas Marner ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYearOfWork | 1861 ⓘ |
| hasGivenNameCombination |
Eppie Marner
ⓘ
Silas Marner ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
adoptive surname of Eppie
ⓘ
surname of the novel’s central character ⓘ |
| usedAsTitleElement | Silas Marner ⓘ |
| usedByCharacter |
Eppie Marner
ⓘ
Silas Marner ⓘ |
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: Marner Description of subject: Marner is the surname of Silas Marner, the reclusive weaver and central character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," which becomes the adoptive family name of the child Eppie.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.