Hannah (the Rivers’ servant)
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Hannah is the elderly, plainspoken housekeeper and servant of the Rivers family in Charlotte Brontë’s novel "Jane Eyre," known for her initial suspicion of Jane and later kindness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hannah (the Rivers’ servant) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5841251 — 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: Hannah (the Rivers’ servant) Context triple: [Morton (Jane Eyre), hasResident, Hannah (the Rivers’ servant)]
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A.
Ellen (housemaid)
Ellen is the cheerful and somewhat scatterbrained housemaid who works for the Banks family in the Mary Poppins stories.
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B.
Martha Black
Martha Black was a pioneering Canadian politician and naturalist, known as one of the first women elected to the Canadian Parliament and for her influential role in Yukon public life.
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C.
Martha
Martha is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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D.
Patsey
Patsey is a young enslaved woman in the film "12 Years a Slave," known for her extraordinary resilience amid brutal abuse on a Louisiana plantation.
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E.
Hannah
Hannah is a person associated in some way with the city of Santa Ana, California.
- 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: Hannah (the Rivers’ servant) Target entity description: Hannah is the elderly, plainspoken housekeeper and servant of the Rivers family in Charlotte Brontë’s novel "Jane Eyre," known for her initial suspicion of Jane and later kindness.
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A.
Ellen (housemaid)
Ellen is the cheerful and somewhat scatterbrained housemaid who works for the Banks family in the Mary Poppins stories.
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B.
Martha Black
Martha Black was a pioneering Canadian politician and naturalist, known as one of the first women elected to the Canadian Parliament and for her influential role in Yukon public life.
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C.
Martha
Martha is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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D.
Patsey
Patsey is a young enslaved woman in the film "12 Years a Slave," known for her extraordinary resilience amid brutal abuse on a Louisiana plantation.
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E.
Hannah
Hannah is a person associated in some way with the city of Santa Ana, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional character
ⓘ
Housekeeper ⓘ Servant ⓘ Supporting character ⓘ |
| ageDescriptor | Elderly ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
Bildungsroman
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Victorian novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Charlotte Brontë ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Diana Rivers
ⓘ
Jane Eyre ⓘ Mary Rivers ⓘ St. John Rivers ⓘ |
| createdBy | Charlotte Brontë ⓘ |
| employedBy | Moor House ⓘ |
| employedByFamily | Rivers family ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceLocation | Moor House ⓘ |
| fullName | Hannah ⓘ |
| gender | Female ⓘ |
| initialAttitudeTowardJane | Suspicious ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| laterAttitudeTowardJane | Kind ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Rivers family ⓘ |
| medium | Novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | Represents rural working-class perspective ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
Housekeeper
ⓘ
Servant ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | Gatekeeper to the Rivers household ⓘ |
| setting | Northern England moorland ⓘ |
| socialClass | Working class ⓘ |
| speechStyle | Plainspoken ⓘ |
| workPublishedInYear | 1847 ⓘ |
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: Hannah (the Rivers’ servant) Description of subject: Hannah is the elderly, plainspoken housekeeper and servant of the Rivers family in Charlotte Brontë’s novel "Jane Eyre," known for her initial suspicion of Jane and later kindness.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Morton in Jane Eyre