Frances Earnshaw
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Frances Earnshaw is a minor character in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known primarily as the delicate and short-lived wife of Hindley Earnshaw and mother of Hareton Earnshaw.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frances Earnshaw canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10361494 — 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: Frances Earnshaw Context triple: [Hareton Earnshaw, hasMother, Frances Earnshaw]
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Cathy Earnshaw
Cathy Earnshaw is the passionate, headstrong heroine of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose intense, doomed love for Heathcliff drives much of the story’s tragedy.
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B.
Branwell Brontë
Branwell Brontë was an English painter and writer best known as the troubled brother of the Brontë sisters, whose struggles with addiction and failure contrasted sharply with his siblings’ literary success.
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C.
Mrs. Reed
Mrs. Reed is Jane Eyre’s cruel and resentful aunt by marriage who raises her harshly at Gateshead Hall in Charlotte Brontë’s novel.
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D.
Sophia Burset
Sophia Burset is a transgender woman and prison hairstylist portrayed by Laverne Cox in the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black," known for her groundbreaking representation of trans issues on television.
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E.
Hindley Earnshaw
Hindley Earnshaw is a key character in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known as the embittered, abusive brother of Catherine Earnshaw whose jealousy and decline fuel much of the story’s tragedy.
- 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: Frances Earnshaw Target entity description: Frances Earnshaw is a minor character in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known primarily as the delicate and short-lived wife of Hindley Earnshaw and mother of Hareton Earnshaw.
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A.
Cathy Earnshaw
Cathy Earnshaw is the passionate, headstrong heroine of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose intense, doomed love for Heathcliff drives much of the story’s tragedy.
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B.
Branwell Brontë
Branwell Brontë was an English painter and writer best known as the troubled brother of the Brontë sisters, whose struggles with addiction and failure contrasted sharply with his siblings’ literary success.
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C.
Mrs. Reed
Mrs. Reed is Jane Eyre’s cruel and resentful aunt by marriage who raises her harshly at Gateshead Hall in Charlotte Brontë’s novel.
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D.
Sophia Burset
Sophia Burset is a transgender woman and prison hairstylist portrayed by Laverne Cox in the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black," known for her groundbreaking representation of trans issues on television.
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E.
Hindley Earnshaw
Hindley Earnshaw is a key character in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known as the embittered, abusive brother of Catherine Earnshaw whose jealousy and decline fuel much of the story’s tragedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsAtLocation |
Wuthering Heights (house)
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linked to:
Wuthering Heights (estate)
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| appearsIn | Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| causes | increased bitterness in Hindley Earnshaw ⓘ |
| characterRole | minor character ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Emily Brontë ⓘ |
| describedAs |
delicate
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short-lived ⓘ |
| diesBefore |
Hareton Earnshaw’s childhood ends
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Hindley Earnshaw ⓘ |
| diesOf | unspecified illness ⓘ |
| familyName | Earnshaw ⓘ |
| introducedIn | early chapters of Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| inUniverseTimePeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| motherOf | Hareton Earnshaw ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
mother of Hareton Earnshaw
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wife of Hindley Earnshaw ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Earnshaw family ⓘ |
| setInWorkLocation |
Yorkshire moors
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linked to:
North York Moors
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| spouseOf | Hindley Earnshaw ⓘ |
| workGenre | Gothic novel ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 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: Frances Earnshaw Description of subject: Frances Earnshaw is a minor character in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known primarily as the delicate and short-lived wife of Hindley Earnshaw and mother of Hareton Earnshaw.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.