Nanny Crawford
E340898
Nanny Crawford is Janie Crawford’s grandmother and guardian in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," known for her protective, pragmatic worldview shaped by slavery and hardship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nanny Crawford canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3250159 — 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: Nanny Crawford Context triple: [Janie Crawford, raisedBy, Nanny Crawford]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Mrs. Wallington
Mrs. Wallington is the namesake of Mrs. Wallington's School, likely an influential educator or benefactor associated with its founding or legacy.
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D.
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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E.
Mistress Ford
Mistress Ford is a clever, quick-witted Windsor housewife in Shakespeare’s comedy who helps orchestrate elaborate pranks to outsmart the lecherous Sir John Falstaff.
- 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: Nanny Crawford Target entity description: Nanny Crawford is Janie Crawford’s grandmother and guardian in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," known for her protective, pragmatic worldview shaped by slavery and hardship.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Mrs. Wallington
Mrs. Wallington is the namesake of Mrs. Wallington's School, likely an influential educator or benefactor associated with its founding or legacy.
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D.
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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E.
Mistress Ford
Mistress Ford is a clever, quick-witted Windsor housewife in Shakespeare’s comedy who helps orchestrate elaborate pranks to outsmart the lecherous Sir John Falstaff.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| advocatesFor | security over romantic love for Janie ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Their Eyes Were Watching God ⓘ |
| backstory | formerly enslaved woman ⓘ |
| caresFor | Janie Crawford ⓘ |
| concern | Janie Crawford’s economic security ⓘ |
| createdBy | Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ |
| encourages | Janie Crawford’s marriage to Logan Killicks ⓘ |
| enforces | social and gender norms of her time ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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surface form:
Their Eyes Were Watching God universe
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| firstPublicationContext |
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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surface form:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937 novel)
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRole |
grandmother of Janie Crawford
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guardian of Janie Crawford ⓘ |
| hasWorldview |
pragmatic
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protective ⓘ |
| literaryFunction | foil to Janie Crawford’s quest for self-fulfillment ⓘ |
| livesInFiction | Florida ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | desire to protect Janie from suffering ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | domestic worker ⓘ |
| relationshipToJanieCrawford |
grandmother
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guardian ⓘ |
| shapedBy |
experience of slavery
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hardship ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
older generation shaped by slavery
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pragmatic survival strategies of Black women in the post-slavery South ⓘ |
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: Nanny Crawford Description of subject: Nanny Crawford is Janie Crawford’s grandmother and guardian in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," known for her protective, pragmatic worldview shaped by slavery and hardship.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.