Hester
E1002651
Hester is a central character in D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," portrayed as a materialistic mother whose emotional detachment and obsession with wealth drive the tragic events of the narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hester canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12774306 — 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: Hester Context triple: [The Rocking-Horse Winner, mainCharacter, Hester]
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A.
Hester Pitt
Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
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B.
Hester Harper
Hester Harper is the psychologically complex, reclusive protagonist of Elizabeth Jolley’s novel "The Well," whose intense relationship with her young companion drives the story’s unsettling exploration of power, dependence, and moral ambiguity.
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C.
Hester Sigerson
Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
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D.
Hester Mahieu
Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
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E.
Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
- 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: Hester Target entity description: Hester is a central character in D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," portrayed as a materialistic mother whose emotional detachment and obsession with wealth drive the tragic events of the narrative.
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A.
Hester Pitt
Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
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B.
Hester Harper
Hester Harper is the psychologically complex, reclusive protagonist of Elizabeth Jolley’s novel "The Well," whose intense relationship with her young companion drives the story’s unsettling exploration of power, dependence, and moral ambiguity.
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C.
Hester Sigerson
Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
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D.
Hester Mahieu
Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
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E.
Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ short story character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rocking-Horse Winner ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | modernist short fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithMotive | “There must be more money” refrain ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
greed
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materialism ⓘ parental neglect ⓘ the corrupting power of money ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
dissatisfied
ⓘ
emotionally detached ⓘ materialistic ⓘ socially aspirational ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| contributesTo | tragic outcome of Paul ⓘ |
| createdBy | D. H. Lawrence ⓘ |
| emotionalRelationToChild | lack of genuine affection for Paul ⓘ |
| familyRole | wife ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926)
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linked to:
The Rocking-Horse Winner
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild | Paul ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| moralEvaluationInCriticism |
morally flawed
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partly responsible for Paul’s death ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
desire for wealth
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social ambition ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
antagonistic force to Paul
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drives conflict ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| perceivesHouseAs | always needing more money ⓘ |
| relationshipToHusband | emotionally distant ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central character
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| symbolicFunction |
critique of middle-class values
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embodiment of materialism ⓘ |
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: Hester Description of subject: Hester is a central character in D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," portrayed as a materialistic mother whose emotional detachment and obsession with wealth drive the tragic events of the narrative.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.