Sophia Western
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Sophia Western is the virtuous, spirited heroine and primary love interest of Tom Jones in Henry Fielding’s classic 18th-century novel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sophia Western canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10720008 — 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: Sophia Western Context triple: [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, mainCharacter, Sophia Western]
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A.
Louisa Hawkins
Louisa Hawkins was the first wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famed British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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B.
Emily Davies
Emily Davies was a pioneering British feminist and educational reformer who played a key role in opening university education to women in the 19th century.
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C.
Louisa Burton
Louisa Burton was the wife of influential 19th-century English architect and designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.
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D.
Amelia Watts
Amelia Watts was the mother of British Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, and a member of the English gentry in the late 18th century.
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E.
Louisa Matilda Jacobs
Louisa Matilda Jacobs was the daughter of formerly enslaved author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, known for assisting her mother’s activism and later working as a teacher and writer.
- 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: Sophia Western Target entity description: Sophia Western is the virtuous, spirited heroine and primary love interest of Tom Jones in Henry Fielding’s classic 18th-century novel.
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A.
Louisa Hawkins
Louisa Hawkins was the first wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famed British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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B.
Emily Davies
Emily Davies was a pioneering British feminist and educational reformer who played a key role in opening university education to women in the 19th century.
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C.
Louisa Burton
Louisa Burton was the wife of influential 19th-century English architect and designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.
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D.
Amelia Watts
Amelia Watts was the mother of British Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, and a member of the English gentry in the late 18th century.
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E.
Louisa Matilda Jacobs
Louisa Matilda Jacobs was the daughter of formerly enslaved author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, known for assisting her mother’s activism and later working as a teacher and writer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Tom Jones ⓘ |
| associatedWorkGenre |
Bildungsroman
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comic novel ⓘ picaresque novel ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
spirited
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virtuous ⓘ |
| creator | Henry Fielding ⓘ |
| familyName | Western ⓘ |
| father | Squire Western ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | aristocratic daughter ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDateOfWork | 1749 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Augustan literature ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Tom Jones ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
moral integrity
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resistance to social pressure in matters of marriage ⓘ |
| relative | Squire Western ⓘ |
| residence | Western estate in Somersetshire ⓘ |
| role |
heroine
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primary love interest of Tom Jones ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
love versus social convention
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virtue and morality in 18th-century society ⓘ |
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: Sophia Western Description of subject: Sophia Western is the virtuous, spirited heroine and primary love interest of Tom Jones in Henry Fielding’s classic 18th-century novel.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.