Eleanor Tilney
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Eleanor Tilney is a kind, sensible, and refined young woman in Jane Austen’s novel "Northanger Abbey," known for her friendship with the heroine and her role as Henry Tilney’s supportive sister.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eleanor Tilney canonical | 8 |
| Mrs Tilney | 1 |
| Mrs. Tilney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8322709 — 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: Eleanor Tilney Context triple: [Northanger Abbey, mainCharacter, Eleanor Tilney]
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A.
Catherine Bennett
Catherine Bennett was the wife of Irish nationalist and American Civil War general Thomas Francis Meagher, known primarily for her marriage to this prominent historical figure.
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B.
Catherine Greville
Catherine Greville was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known primarily for her marriage into the influential Buckingham and Normanby ducal family.
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C.
Marianne
Marianne is the national personification of the French Republic, symbolizing liberty, reason, and the values of the nation.
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D.
Marianne
Marianne was a 19th-century Dutch princess of the House of Orange-Nassau, known for her independent spirit, unconventional personal life, and extensive patronage of the arts and architecture.
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E.
Marianne
Marianne is the central female figure addressed in Leonard Cohen's song "So Long, Marianne," widely recognized as a muse-like character in his work.
- 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: Eleanor Tilney Target entity description: Eleanor Tilney is a kind, sensible, and refined young woman in Jane Austen’s novel "Northanger Abbey," known for her friendship with the heroine and her role as Henry Tilney’s supportive sister.
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A.
Catherine Bennett
Catherine Bennett was the wife of Irish nationalist and American Civil War general Thomas Francis Meagher, known primarily for her marriage to this prominent historical figure.
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B.
Catherine Greville
Catherine Greville was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known primarily for her marriage into the influential Buckingham and Normanby ducal family.
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C.
Marianne
Marianne was a 19th-century Dutch princess of the House of Orange-Nassau, known for her independent spirit, unconventional personal life, and extensive patronage of the arts and architecture.
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D.
Marianne
Marianne is the national personification of the French Republic, symbolizing liberty, reason, and the values of the nation.
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E.
Marianne
Marianne is the central female figure addressed in Leonard Cohen's song "So Long, Marianne," widely recognized as a muse-like character in his work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside |
Captain Frederick Tilney
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Catherine Morland ⓘ General Tilney ⓘ Henry Tilney ⓘ Isabella Thorpe ⓘ James Morland ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Northanger Abbey ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
Gothic parody
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novel of manners ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Bath
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Gloucestershire ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
dutiful
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gentle ⓘ kind ⓘ loyal ⓘ refined ⓘ reserved ⓘ sensible ⓘ |
| childOf | General Tilney ⓘ |
| creator | Jane Austen ⓘ |
| familyName | Tilney ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1817 (posthumous publication of Northanger Abbey) ⓘ |
| friendOf | Catherine Morland ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Eleanor ⓘ |
| governedBy | General Tilney’s authority ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryCanon | English literature ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (by the end of the novel) ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrast to Catherine Morland’s naivety
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mediator between Catherine Morland and the Tilney family ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| residence |
Northanger Abbey
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Woodston (at times when visiting Henry Tilney) ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
Henry Tilney’s sister
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friend of the heroine ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | late 18th century England ⓘ |
| sibling |
Captain Frederick Tilney
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Henry Tilney ⓘ |
| socialClass | gentry ⓘ |
| spouse | a viscount (later a viscountess) ⓘ |
| supports | Catherine Morland ⓘ |
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: Eleanor Tilney Description of subject: Eleanor Tilney is a kind, sensible, and refined young woman in Jane Austen’s novel "Northanger Abbey," known for her friendship with the heroine and her role as Henry Tilney’s supportive sister.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eleanor Tilney
linked to: Eleanor Tilney