Mrs. Pettifer
E1020524
Mrs. Pettifer is a minor but sympathetic character in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," known for her role within the social and moral landscape of the story’s provincial community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Pettifer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13079492 — 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. Pettifer Context triple: [Janet's Repentance, hasCharacter, Mrs. Pettifer]
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A.
Mrs Spottsworth
Mrs Spottsworth is a wealthy, eccentric American widow in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves universe, best known for her comic entanglements and romantic misadventures.
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B.
Mrs. Grose
Mrs. Grose is the loyal and plainspoken housekeeper in Henry James’s novella "The Turn of the Screw," serving as the governess’s confidante and a grounded counterpoint to the story’s growing supernatural dread.
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C.
Mrs. Prest
Mrs. Prest is a resourceful and inquisitive Englishwoman in Henry James’s novella "The Aspern Papers," who helps the narrator gain access to the reclusive Juliana Bordereau in Venice.
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D.
Mrs. Tottendale
Mrs. Tottendale is a wealthy, eccentric, and somewhat oblivious socialite character in the musical-within-a-musical of "The Drowsy Chaperone."
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E.
Mrs. Hall
Mrs. Hall is a fictional character associated with Maurice, likely appearing in E.M. Forster’s novel "Maurice" as part of its social and domestic milieu.
- 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. Pettifer Target entity description: Mrs. Pettifer is a minor but sympathetic character in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," known for her role within the social and moral landscape of the story’s provincial community.
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A.
Mrs Spottsworth
Mrs Spottsworth is a wealthy, eccentric American widow in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves universe, best known for her comic entanglements and romantic misadventures.
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B.
Mrs. Grose
Mrs. Grose is the loyal and plainspoken housekeeper in Henry James’s novella "The Turn of the Screw," serving as the governess’s confidante and a grounded counterpoint to the story’s growing supernatural dread.
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C.
Mrs. Prest
Mrs. Prest is a resourceful and inquisitive Englishwoman in Henry James’s novella "The Aspern Papers," who helps the narrator gain access to the reclusive Juliana Bordereau in Venice.
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D.
Mrs. Tottendale
Mrs. Tottendale is a wealthy, eccentric, and somewhat oblivious socialite character in the musical-within-a-musical of "The Drowsy Chaperone."
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E.
Mrs. Hall
Mrs. Hall is a fictional character associated with Maurice, likely appearing in E.M. Forster’s novel "Maurice" as part of its social and domestic milieu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ minor character ⓘ |
| appearsInAuthorCorpus | the works of George Eliot ⓘ |
| appearsInCollection |
"Scenes of Clerical Life"
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linked to:
Scenes of Clerical Life
|
| appearsInWork |
"Janet’s Repentance"
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linked to:
Janet's Repentance
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| associatedWithAuthorTheme |
moral responsibility
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social observation ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
morality in everyday life
ⓘ
provincial society ⓘ |
| characterType | realist character ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalOrigin | England ⓘ |
| createdBy |
George Eliot
ⓘ
Mary Ann Evans ⓘ
linked to:
George Eliot
|
| fictionalUniverse | the world of "Janet’s Repentance" ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| medium | prose ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally sympathetic ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contributes to the moral landscape of the story’s provincial community
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contributes to the social landscape of the story’s provincial community ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
supporting character
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sympathetic character ⓘ |
| settingContext | a provincial English community ⓘ |
| workGenreContext |
Victorian fiction
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novella ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ |
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. Pettifer Description of subject: Mrs. Pettifer is a minor but sympathetic character in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," known for her role within the social and moral landscape of the story’s provincial community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.