Mrs. Earnshaw
E872701
Mrs. Earnshaw is the wife of Mr. Earnshaw and the matriarch of the Earnshaw family in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Earnshaw canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10361596 — 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: Mrs. Earnshaw Context triple: [Earnshaw family, hasMember, Mrs. Earnshaw]
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A.
Mr. Earnshaw
Mr. Earnshaw is the stern but fundamentally kind-hearted patriarch in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose decision to adopt the orphan Heathcliff sets the story’s central conflicts in motion.
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B.
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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C.
Hareton Earnshaw
Hareton Earnshaw is a central character in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," known as the rough, uneducated yet ultimately sympathetic heir of Wuthering Heights whose transformation reflects the novel’s themes of revenge, class, and redemption.
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D.
Catherine Linton
Catherine Linton is a central character in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known as the daughter of Edgar Linton and Catherine Earnshaw who becomes entangled in the story’s later-generation conflicts and romances.
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E.
Linton Heathcliff
Linton Heathcliff is a frail, petulant boy in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose sickly nature and manipulative upbringing make him a tool in his father Heathcliff’s schemes.
- 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: Mrs. Earnshaw Target entity description: Mrs. Earnshaw is the wife of Mr. Earnshaw and the matriarch of the Earnshaw family in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights."
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A.
Mr. Earnshaw
Mr. Earnshaw is the stern but fundamentally kind-hearted patriarch in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose decision to adopt the orphan Heathcliff sets the story’s central conflicts in motion.
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B.
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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C.
Hareton Earnshaw
Hareton Earnshaw is a central character in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," known as the rough, uneducated yet ultimately sympathetic heir of Wuthering Heights whose transformation reflects the novel’s themes of revenge, class, and redemption.
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D.
Catherine Linton
Catherine Linton is a central character in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known as the daughter of Edgar Linton and Catherine Earnshaw who becomes entangled in the story’s later-generation conflicts and romances.
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E.
Linton Heathcliff
Linton Heathcliff is a frail, petulant boy in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose sickly nature and manipulative upbringing make him a tool in his father Heathcliff’s schemes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
Gothic novel
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Victorian literature ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| creator | Emily Brontë ⓘ |
| diesBeforeEvents | major part of narrative ⓘ |
| familyName | Earnshaw ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Wuthering Heights universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Wuthering Heights
|
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1847 ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Catherine Earnshaw
ⓘ
linked to:
Cathy Earnshaw
Hindley Earnshaw ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Heathcliff ⓘ |
| hasResidence | Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
| hasRole |
mother of Catherine Earnshaw
ⓘ
mother of Hindley Earnshaw ⓘ wife of Mr. Earnshaw ⓘ |
| hasSocialClass | landowning gentry ⓘ |
| isMatriarchOf | Earnshaw family ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryWorkForm | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | English (fictional) ⓘ |
| setInCountry | England ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| setInRegion | Yorkshire ⓘ |
| showsAttitudeToward | Heathcliff as outsider ⓘ |
| spouse | Mr. Earnshaw ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | English ⓘ |
| workTitle | Wuthering Heights ⓘ |
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: Mrs. Earnshaw Description of subject: Mrs. Earnshaw is the wife of Mr. Earnshaw and the matriarch of the Earnshaw family in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.