Wide Sargasso Sea
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Wide Sargasso Sea is a postcolonial novel by Jean Rhys that reimagines the backstory of Bertha Mason, the "madwoman in the attic" from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, exploring themes of identity, colonialism, and madness.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wide Sargasso Sea canonical | 6 |
| Wide Sargasso Sea (1993 film) | 1 |
| Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10516764 — 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: Wide Sargasso Sea Context triple: [Bertha Mason, influencedWork, Wide Sargasso Sea]
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A.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a character from the horror film "The Descent," one of the women who join a dangerous caving expedition that turns terrifying underground.
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B.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a courageous and compassionate Jewish healer in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe," renowned for her integrity and tragic, unrequited love.
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C.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning “to tie” or “to bind,” widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Jamaica Inn
Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel about smuggling and intrigue on the Cornish coast.
- 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: Wide Sargasso Sea Target entity description: Wide Sargasso Sea is a postcolonial novel by Jean Rhys that reimagines the backstory of Bertha Mason, the "madwoman in the attic" from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, exploring themes of identity, colonialism, and madness.
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A.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a character from the horror film "The Descent," one of the women who join a dangerous caving expedition that turns terrifying underground.
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B.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a courageous and compassionate Jewish healer in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe," renowned for her integrity and tragic, unrequited love.
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C.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a prominent biblical matriarch, known as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob in the Hebrew Bible.
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D.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning “to tie” or “to bind,” widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Jamaica Inn
Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel about smuggling and intrigue on the Cornish coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modernist literature work
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Jane Eyre (intertextual prequel)
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linked to:
Jane Eyre
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| alternativeNameForCharacter | Antoinette Cosway is Bertha Mason ⓘ |
| author | Jean Rhys ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
effects of colonialism on personal identity
ⓘ
madwoman in the attic trope ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ modernist novel ⓘ postcolonial fiction ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptation |
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Wide Sargasso Sea
|
| includedIn |
feminist literary studies curricula
ⓘ
postcolonial literature curricula ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Jane Eyre ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
feminist literature
ⓘ
postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
canonical work of postcolonial literature
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major feminist rewriting of a Victorian classic ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Annette Cosway
ⓘ
linked to:
Antoinette Cosway
Antoinette Cosway ⓘ Christophine ⓘ Mr. Rochester ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique | multiple narrators ⓘ |
| narrator |
Antoinette Cosway
ⓘ
Mr. Rochester ⓘ |
| protagonistBackground | white Creole woman ⓘ |
| publisher | André Deutsch ⓘ |
| reimaginesCharacter |
Bertha Mason
ⓘ
linked to:
Bertha Antoinetta Mason
|
| setInPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| setInPlace |
Caribbean
ⓘ
Dominica ⓘ England ⓘ Jamaica ⓘ |
| settingEvent | post-emancipation Caribbean society ⓘ |
| structure | three-part novel ⓘ |
| theme |
colonialism
ⓘ
creole identity ⓘ cultural displacement ⓘ gender ⓘ identity ⓘ madness ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ race ⓘ slavery and emancipation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Wide Sargasso Sea Description of subject: Wide Sargasso Sea is a postcolonial novel by Jean Rhys that reimagines the backstory of Bertha Mason, the "madwoman in the attic" from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, exploring themes of identity, colonialism, and madness.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wide Sargasso Sea
linked to: Wide Sargasso Sea
subject linked to:
Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea
subject linked to:
Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea