Mrs. Reed
E248055
Mrs. Reed is Jane Eyre’s cruel and resentful aunt by marriage who raises her harshly at Gateshead Hall in Charlotte Brontë’s novel.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2247793 — 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. Reed Context triple: [Jane Eyre, mainCharacter, Mrs. Reed]
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A.
Cathy Earnshaw
Cathy Earnshaw is the passionate, headstrong heroine of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose intense, doomed love for Heathcliff drives much of the story’s tragedy.
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B.
Louisa
Louisa is the middle name of Katharine Louisa Stanley, a 19th-century English writer and member of the prominent Stanley family.
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C.
Sybil Corbet
Sybil Corbet was a medieval noblewoman known primarily as the mistress of King Henry I of England and the mother of several of his illegitimate children.
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D.
Catherine
Catherine is a feminine given name of Greek origin, derived from Aikaterine and widely used in various forms across many cultures.
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E.
Lucy Aikin
Lucy Aikin was a prominent English historian, biographer, and writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for her historical works on the courts of Elizabeth I and James I.
- 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. Reed Target entity description: Mrs. Reed is Jane Eyre’s cruel and resentful aunt by marriage who raises her harshly at Gateshead Hall in Charlotte Brontë’s novel.
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A.
Cathy Earnshaw
Cathy Earnshaw is the passionate, headstrong heroine of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose intense, doomed love for Heathcliff drives much of the story’s tragedy.
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B.
Louisa
Louisa is the middle name of Katharine Louisa Stanley, a 19th-century English writer and member of the prominent Stanley family.
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C.
Sybil Corbet
Sybil Corbet was a medieval noblewoman known primarily as the mistress of King Henry I of England and the mother of several of his illegitimate children.
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D.
Catherine
Catherine is a feminine given name of Greek origin, derived from Aikaterine and widely used in various forms across many cultures.
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E.
Lucy Aikin
Lucy Aikin was a prominent English historian, biographer, and writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for her historical works on the courts of Elizabeth I and James I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aunt
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| allows | John Reed to bully Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| auntOf | Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| breaksPromiseAbout | caring kindly for Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| breaksPromiseTo |
Mrs. Reed
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mr. Reed
|
| confesses | concealing John Eyre’s letter ⓘ |
| createdBy | Charlotte Brontë ⓘ |
| describesJaneAs | a liar ⓘ |
| diesIn | Gateshead Hall ⓘ |
| eventuallyFalls | ill ⓘ |
| familyName | Reed ⓘ |
| feels | bitterness until death ⓘ |
| firstAppearsIn | the opening chapters of Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| fullName | Sarah Reed ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| harborsFeelingToward | resentment toward Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Eliza Reed
ⓘ
Georgiana Reed ⓘ John Reed ⓘ |
| liesTo | Mr. Brocklehurst about Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| locks | Jane Eyre in the red-room ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| prefers | her own children over Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| publicationContext |
Jane Eyre
ⓘ
surface form:
Jane Eyre (1847)
|
| punishes | Jane Eyre unjustly ⓘ |
| refusesOfferFrom | John Eyre to adopt Jane ⓘ |
| residesAt | Gateshead Hall ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | antagonist in Jane’s childhood ⓘ |
| sends |
Lowood School
ⓘ
surface form:
Jane Eyre to Lowood School
|
| settingPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper-middle class ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mrs. Reed
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mr. Reed
|
| symbolizes | cruelty of certain Victorian family structures ⓘ |
| treats | Jane Eyre cruelly ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Jane Eyre during her final illness ⓘ |
| withholdsInformationAbout |
John Eyre
ⓘ
surface form:
Jane’s uncle John Eyre
|
| withholdsInformationFrom | Jane Eyre ⓘ |
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. Reed Description of subject: Mrs. Reed is Jane Eyre’s cruel and resentful aunt by marriage who raises her harshly at Gateshead Hall in Charlotte Brontë’s novel.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mr. Reed