John Dashwood
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John Dashwood is a character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," known as the weak-willed half-brother of Elinor and Marianne who fails to properly support them after their father's death.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Dashwood canonical | 17 |
| Harry Dashwood | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971691 — 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: John Dashwood Context triple: [Elinor Dashwood, relative, John Dashwood]
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A.
Mr. Henry Dashwood
Mr. Henry Dashwood is the deceased patriarch of the Dashwood family in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility," whose death and inheritance arrangements leave his wife and daughters in reduced circumstances.
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B.
Edward Ferrars
Edward Ferrars is a reserved, honorable young gentleman in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," best known as Elinor Dashwood's love interest and a central figure in the story's exploration of duty and affection.
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C.
Colonel Brandon
Colonel Brandon is a reserved yet deeply honorable older suitor in Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility," whose quiet devotion and integrity contrast with the more impulsive characters around him.
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D.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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E.
Thomas Mildmay
Thomas Mildmay was a 16th-century English politician and courtier, known as the son of statesman Sir Walter Mildmay and for serving in various administrative and parliamentary roles under the Tudor monarchy.
- 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: John Dashwood Target entity description: John Dashwood is a character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," known as the weak-willed half-brother of Elinor and Marianne who fails to properly support them after their father's death.
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A.
Mr. Henry Dashwood
Mr. Henry Dashwood is the deceased patriarch of the Dashwood family in Jane Austen’s novel "Sense and Sensibility," whose death and inheritance arrangements leave his wife and daughters in reduced circumstances.
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B.
Edward Ferrars
Edward Ferrars is a reserved, honorable young gentleman in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," best known as Elinor Dashwood's love interest and a central figure in the story's exploration of duty and affection.
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C.
Colonel Brandon
Colonel Brandon is a reserved yet deeply honorable older suitor in Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility," whose quiet devotion and integrity contrast with the more impulsive characters around him.
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D.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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E.
Thomas Mildmay
Thomas Mildmay was a 16th-century English politician and courtier, known as the son of statesman Sir Walter Mildmay and for serving in various administrative and parliamentary roles under the Tudor monarchy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: John Dashwood Description of subject: John Dashwood is a character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," known as the weak-willed half-brother of Elinor and Marianne who fails to properly support them after their father's death.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Dashwood