Hester Crane
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Hester Crane is the late, refined and often critical mother of Niles and Frasier Crane in the television series "Frasier" and its predecessor "Cheers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hester Crane canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7541846 — 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: Hester Crane Context triple: [Niles Crane, parent, Hester Crane]
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A.
Hester Pitt
Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
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B.
Hester Gatty
Hester Gatty was an English socialite and writer best known as the wife of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon.
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C.
Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
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D.
Hester Sigerson
Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
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E.
Hester Mahieu
Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
- 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: Hester Crane Target entity description: Hester Crane is the late, refined and often critical mother of Niles and Frasier Crane in the television series "Frasier" and its predecessor "Cheers."
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A.
Hester Pitt
Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
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B.
Hester Gatty
Hester Gatty was an English socialite and writer best known as the wife of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon.
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C.
Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
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D.
Hester Sigerson
Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
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E.
Hester Mahieu
Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Cheers
NERFINISHED
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Frasier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInUniverse | Frasier universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Frasier Crane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Niles Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | television ⓘ |
| familyName | Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseOrigin | Cheers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Cheers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Hester Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Hester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFieldOfExpertise | psychiatry ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
critical
ⓘ
intelligent ⓘ refined ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the mother of Frasier Crane
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being the mother of Niles Crane ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Nancy Marchand
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patricia Crowley NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Frasier Crane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Martin Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ Niles Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Martin Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | deceased ⓘ |
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: Hester Crane Description of subject: Hester Crane is the late, refined and often critical mother of Niles and Frasier Crane in the television series "Frasier" and its predecessor "Cheers."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.