Mrs. Dempster
E1020529
Mrs. Dempster is a central fictional figure in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for her role in the story’s exploration of morality, religion, and social judgment in a provincial English town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Dempster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13079500 — 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. Dempster Context triple: [Janet's Repentance, hasCharacter, Mrs. Dempster]
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A.
Mrs. Maclehose
Mrs. Maclehose is the married name of Agnes Maclehose, an 18th-century Scottish woman best known as the platonic love interest and correspondent of poet Robert Burns, who addressed her as "Clarinda" in his famous letters.
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B.
Mrs. Munro
Mrs. Munro is a housekeeper and caretaker who works for an aging Sherlock Holmes in the film "Mr. Holmes."
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C.
Mrs. Macauley
Mrs. Macauley is the resilient widowed mother in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," embodying warmth, strength, and moral guidance for her family during World War II.
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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. Cassilis
Mrs. Cassilis is a central fictional character in William Black’s 1871 novel "A Daughter of Heth," around whom much of the story’s social and emotional drama revolves.
- 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. Dempster Target entity description: Mrs. Dempster is a central fictional figure in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for her role in the story’s exploration of morality, religion, and social judgment in a provincial English town.
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A.
Mrs. Maclehose
Mrs. Maclehose is the married name of Agnes Maclehose, an 18th-century Scottish woman best known as the platonic love interest and correspondent of poet Robert Burns, who addressed her as "Clarinda" in his famous letters.
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B.
Mrs. Munro
Mrs. Munro is a housekeeper and caretaker who works for an aging Sherlock Holmes in the film "Mr. Holmes."
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C.
Mrs. Macauley
Mrs. Macauley is the resilient widowed mother in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," embodying warmth, strength, and moral guidance for her family during World War II.
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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. Cassilis
Mrs. Cassilis is a central fictional character in William Black’s 1871 novel "A Daughter of Heth," around whom much of the story’s social and emotional drama revolves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Janet’s Repentance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scenes of Clerical Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | novella ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
morality
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provincial life ⓘ religion ⓘ social judgment ⓘ |
| authorRealName | Mary Ann Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterType | morally scrutinized woman ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalResidence | Milby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAuthorPseudonym | George Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Mr. Dempster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central figure in exploration of morality
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central figure in exploration of religion ⓘ central figure in exploration of social judgment ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | clergyman’s wife ⓘ |
| partOfWorkBy | George Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th-century England ⓘ |
| workFirstPublishedIn | Scenes of Clerical Life 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. Dempster Description of subject: Mrs. Dempster is a central fictional figure in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for her role in the story’s exploration of morality, religion, and social judgment in a provincial English town.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.