Sally Seton
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Sally Seton is a free-spirited, unconventional friend and youthful love interest of Clarissa in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway," symbolizing rebellion and emotional intensity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sally Seton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11754309 — 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: Sally Seton Context triple: [Mrs. Dalloway, mainCharacter, Sally Seton]
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A.
Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith was a prominent American illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for her tender, richly colored depictions of children in magazines and books.
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B.
Patience Holt
Patience Holt was the wife of Sir Richard Arkwright, the pioneering English inventor and industrialist of the early textile factory system.
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C.
Mary Lee Fitzhugh
Mary Lee Fitzhugh was an American plantation mistress and prominent early 19th-century Virginia social figure, best known as the wife of George Washington Parke Custis and grandmother-in-law of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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D.
Jessamyn West
Jessamyn West was an American author best known for her stories and novels about Quaker life in Indiana, including the work that inspired the film "Friendly Persuasion."
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E.
Anna Griswold Harte
Anna Griswold Harte was the wife of American author and poet Bret Harte, known for her connection to the prominent 19th-century writer of Western frontier stories.
- 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: Sally Seton Target entity description: Sally Seton is a free-spirited, unconventional friend and youthful love interest of Clarissa in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway," symbolizing rebellion and emotional intensity.
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A.
Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith was a prominent American illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for her tender, richly colored depictions of children in magazines and books.
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B.
Patience Holt
Patience Holt was the wife of Sir Richard Arkwright, the pioneering English inventor and industrialist of the early textile factory system.
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C.
Mary Lee Fitzhugh
Mary Lee Fitzhugh was an American plantation mistress and prominent early 19th-century Virginia social figure, best known as the wife of George Washington Parke Custis and grandmother-in-law of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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D.
Jessamyn West
Jessamyn West was an American author best known for her stories and novels about Quaker life in Indiana, including the work that inspired the film "Friendly Persuasion."
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E.
Anna Griswold Harte
Anna Griswold Harte was the wife of American author and poet Bret Harte, known for her connection to the prominent 19th-century writer of Western frontier stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Mrs Dalloway
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linked to:
Mrs. Dalloway
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| associatedWithTheme |
female friendship
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memory ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ same-sex desire ⓘ social rebellion ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
free-spirited
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impulsive ⓘ passionate ⓘ unconventional ⓘ |
| countryOfAuthor | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Virginia Woolf ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1925 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | modernist novel ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Clarissa Dalloway ⓘ |
| livesInFictionalSetting | England ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrast to Clarissa Dalloway
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embodiment of lost possibilities ⓘ |
| relationshipToClarissaDalloway |
close friend in youth
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romantic interest in youth ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
emotional intensity
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female desire ⓘ nonconformity ⓘ rebellion ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | early 20th century ⓘ |
| youthfulLoveInterestOf | Clarissa Dalloway ⓘ |
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: Sally Seton Description of subject: Sally Seton is a free-spirited, unconventional friend and youthful love interest of Clarissa in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway," symbolizing rebellion and emotional intensity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.