Lady Rowley
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Lady Rowley is a British aristocratic matriarch character, best known as the socially ambitious mother in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lady Rowley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9342722 — 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: Lady Rowley Context triple: [Nora Rowley, isDaughterOf, Lady Rowley]
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A.
Margaret Mautby
Margaret Mautby was a 15th-century English gentlewoman of the Norfolk gentry, best known as the mother of Bridget Paston of the prominent Paston family.
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B.
Letitia Cropley
Letitia Cropley is an eccentric parishioner in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," best known for her bizarre and unappetizing culinary creations.
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C.
Sarah Rolfe
Sarah Rolfe was the wife of scientist and inventor Benjamin Thompson, later known as Count Rumford, and a member of a prominent New England family in the late 18th century.
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D.
Eleanor Witcombe
Eleanor Witcombe was an Australian screenwriter and playwright known for her influential adaptations and contributions to Australian film, television, and radio drama.
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E.
Fanny Derham
Fanny Derham is a central character in Mary Shelley’s novel "Lodore," notable for her intellectual independence and unconventional views on education and gender roles in 19th-century society.
- 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: Lady Rowley Target entity description: Lady Rowley is a British aristocratic matriarch character, best known as the socially ambitious mother in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right."
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A.
Margaret Mautby
Margaret Mautby was a 15th-century English gentlewoman of the Norfolk gentry, best known as the mother of Bridget Paston of the prominent Paston family.
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B.
Letitia Cropley
Letitia Cropley is an eccentric parishioner in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," best known for her bizarre and unappetizing culinary creations.
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C.
Sarah Rolfe
Sarah Rolfe was the wife of scientist and inventor Benjamin Thompson, later known as Count Rumford, and a member of a prominent New England family in the late 18th century.
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D.
Eleanor Witcombe
Eleanor Witcombe was an Australian screenwriter and playwright known for her influential adaptations and contributions to Australian film, television, and radio drama.
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E.
Fanny Derham
Fanny Derham is a central character in Mary Shelley’s novel "Lodore," notable for her intellectual independence and unconventional views on education and gender roles in 19th-century society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aristocrat
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | He Knew He Was Right ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| characterIn | Anthony Trollope novel ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| familyRole | matriarch ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | He Knew He Was Right ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | Victorian novel ⓘ |
| hasChild | Emily Trevelyan ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Rowley ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Sir Marmaduke Rowley ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | mother of central heroine ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a socially ambitious mother
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social ambition ⓘ |
| occupation | society hostess ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
socially ambitious
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status-conscious ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| socialStatus | aristocracy ⓘ |
| title | Lady ⓘ |
| workForm | novel ⓘ |
| workPublicationDate | 1869 ⓘ |
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: Lady Rowley Description of subject: Lady Rowley is a British aristocratic matriarch character, best known as the socially ambitious mother in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.