The Eyre Affair
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The Eyre Affair is a comic fantasy detective novel set in an alternate 1980s England where literary works can be entered and altered, following literary detective Thursday Next as she pursues a criminal inside the world of Jane Eyre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Eyre Affair canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6840336 — 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: The Eyre Affair Context triple: [Jasper Fforde, notableWork, The Eyre Affair]
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A.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a small river in Dorset, England, that flows through and gives its name to the coastal town of Bournemouth.
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B.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a chalk stream in Wiltshire, England, that flows through the Bourne Valley before joining the River Avon near Salisbury.
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C.
The Hargrave Deception
The Hargrave Deception is a spy novel by former CIA officer and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, reflecting his experience in intelligence and covert operations.
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D.
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1946 stage play by Terence Rattigan that dramatizes a real Edwardian-era legal case in which a family sacrifices everything to clear their young son’s name.
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E.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film, directed by Joseph Losey and based on L.P. Hartley’s novel, about a young boy drawn into a secret affair between an upper-class woman and a farmer in Edwardian England.
- 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: The Eyre Affair Target entity description: The Eyre Affair is a comic fantasy detective novel set in an alternate 1980s England where literary works can be entered and altered, following literary detective Thursday Next as she pursues a criminal inside the world of Jane Eyre.
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A.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a small river in Dorset, England, that flows through and gives its name to the coastal town of Bournemouth.
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B.
River Bourne
River Bourne is a chalk stream in Wiltshire, England, that flows through the Bourne Valley before joining the River Avon near Salisbury.
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C.
The Hargrave Deception
The Hargrave Deception is a spy novel by former CIA officer and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, reflecting his experience in intelligence and covert operations.
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D.
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1946 stage play by Terence Rattigan that dramatizes a real Edwardian-era legal case in which a family sacrifices everything to clear their young son’s name.
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E.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film, directed by Joseph Losey and based on L.P. Hartley’s novel, about a young boy drawn into a secret affair between an upper-class woman and a farmer in Edwardian England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: The Eyre Affair Description of subject: The Eyre Affair is a comic fantasy detective novel set in an alternate 1980s England where literary works can be entered and altered, following literary detective Thursday Next as she pursues a criminal inside the world of Jane Eyre.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.