Dashwood family
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The Dashwood family is a central fictional family in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," around whom the story's romantic and social dramas revolve.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dashwood family canonical | 7 |
| Dashwood sisters | 1 |
| the Dashwood family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110423 — 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: Dashwood family Context triple: [Colonel Brandon, associatedWithFamily, Dashwood family]
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A.
Bennet family
The Bennet family is an English noble lineage associated with figures such as Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, and other members of the aristocracy.
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B.
Forrester family
The Forrester family is a central fictional dynasty in the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful," known for running the high-fashion house Forrester Creations and for their dramatic personal and professional entanglements.
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C.
Edgeworth family
The Edgeworth family is a notable lineage historically associated with influential figures in literature, philosophy, and economics, particularly in Ireland and Britain.
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D.
Stephen family
The Stephen family was a prominent British intellectual and literary family of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group and including figures such as Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
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E.
Milbanke family
The Milbanke family is a British aristocratic lineage best known for its association with Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron, and for its longstanding role in the English nobility.
- 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: Dashwood family Target entity description: The Dashwood family is a central fictional family in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," around whom the story's romantic and social dramas revolve.
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A.
Bennet family
The Bennet family is an English noble lineage associated with figures such as Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, and other members of the aristocracy.
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B.
Forrester family
The Forrester family is a central fictional dynasty in the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful," known for running the high-fashion house Forrester Creations and for their dramatic personal and professional entanglements.
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C.
Edgeworth family
The Edgeworth family is a notable lineage historically associated with influential figures in literature, philosophy, and economics, particularly in Ireland and Britain.
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D.
Stephen family
The Stephen family was a prominent British intellectual and literary family of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group and including figures such as Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
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E.
Milbanke family
The Milbanke family is a British aristocratic lineage best known for its association with Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron, and for its longstanding role in the English nobility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Dashwood family Description of subject: The Dashwood family is a central fictional family in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," around whom the story's romantic and social dramas revolve.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dashwood family
linked to: Dashwood family
Lucy Steele (Sense and Sensibility, 1981 TV series)
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subject linked to:
Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV series)