Mr. Jerome
E1020526
Mr. Jerome is a minor but morally significant character in George Eliot’s novella "Janet's Repentance," representing conventional respectability within the story’s provincial English community.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Jerome canonical | 1 |
| Mrs. Jerome | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13079494 — 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: Mr. Jerome Context triple: [Janet's Repentance, hasCharacter, Mr. Jerome]
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A.
Mr. Mallard
Mr. Mallard is the father duck in Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book “Make Way for Ducklings,” known for leading his family through Boston.
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B.
Mr. Mallard
Mr. Mallard is the husband of Mrs. Mallard in Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” whose reported death and unexpected return drive the plot’s exploration of marriage and personal freedom.
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C.
Leonard Bast
Leonard Bast is a lower-middle-class insurance clerk and aspiring intellectual in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," whose struggles highlight the era’s class tensions and social injustices.
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D.
Ernest Maltravers
Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
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E.
Rudolph Bloom
Rudolph Bloom is the father of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," representing the protagonist’s Hungarian Jewish heritage and familial past.
- 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: Mr. Jerome Target entity description: Mr. Jerome is a minor but morally significant character in George Eliot’s novella "Janet's Repentance," representing conventional respectability within the story’s provincial English community.
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A.
Mr. Mallard
Mr. Mallard is the father duck in Robert McCloskey’s classic children’s book “Make Way for Ducklings,” known for leading his family through Boston.
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B.
Mr. Mallard
Mr. Mallard is the husband of Mrs. Mallard in Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” whose reported death and unexpected return drive the plot’s exploration of marriage and personal freedom.
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C.
Leonard Bast
Leonard Bast is a lower-middle-class insurance clerk and aspiring intellectual in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," whose struggles highlight the era’s class tensions and social injustices.
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D.
Ernest Maltravers
Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
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E.
Rudolph Bloom
Rudolph Bloom is the father of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," representing the protagonist’s Hungarian Jewish heritage and familial past.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ male character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Janet's Repentance ⓘ |
| appearsInCollection | Scenes of Clerical Life ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorPseudonym | George Eliot ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorRealName |
Mary Ann Evans
ⓘ
linked to:
George Eliot
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| characterInWork | Janet's Repentance ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Eliot ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | provincial English community in Janet's Repentance ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| moralAlignment |
respectable
ⓘ
socially conservative ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | morally significant character ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| represents | conventional respectability in a provincial English community ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | minor character ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | provincial English town of Milby ⓘ |
| symbolizes | conventional respectability ⓘ |
| workGenreContext | Victorian realist fiction ⓘ |
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: Mr. Jerome Description of subject: Mr. Jerome is a minor but morally significant character in George Eliot’s novella "Janet's Repentance," representing conventional respectability within the story’s provincial English community.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mr. Jerome