Dashwood
E116970
Dashwood is the surname of the central family in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," including the character Elinor Dashwood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dashwood canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971685 — 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: Dashwood Context triple: [Elinor Dashwood, familyName, Dashwood]
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A.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 British period drama film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, acclaimed for its screenplay by and starring Emma Thompson.
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B.
So Long, Marianne
"So Long, Marianne" is a classic Leonard Cohen song, celebrated as one of his most enduring and intimate folk ballads about love and separation.
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C.
Family Compact
The Family Compact was a small, conservative elite that dominated the political and economic life of Upper Canada in the early 19th century, resisting democratic reforms and contributing to the tensions that led to the Rebellions of 1837.
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D.
Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers is an 1857 Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically portrays clerical politics and social maneuvering in the fictional English cathedral town of Barchester.
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E.
Cranford
Cranford is a suburban village in the London Borough of Hounslow, England, known for its proximity to Heathrow Airport and its mix of residential areas and green spaces.
- 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: Dashwood Target entity description: Dashwood is the surname of the central family in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," including the character Elinor Dashwood.
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A.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 British period drama film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, acclaimed for its screenplay by and starring Emma Thompson.
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B.
So Long, Marianne
"So Long, Marianne" is a classic Leonard Cohen song, celebrated as one of his most enduring and intimate folk ballads about love and separation.
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C.
Family Compact
The Family Compact was a small, conservative elite that dominated the political and economic life of Upper Canada in the early 19th century, resisting democratic reforms and contributing to the tensions that led to the Rebellions of 1837.
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D.
Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers is an 1857 Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically portrays clerical politics and social maneuvering in the fictional English cathedral town of Barchester.
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E.
Cranford
Cranford is a suburban village in the London Borough of Hounslow, England, known for its proximity to Heathrow Airport and its mix of residential areas and green spaces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Sense and Sensibility
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Sense and Sensibility ⓘ Sense and Sensibility ⓘ Sense and Sensibility ⓘ Sense and Sensibility ⓘ |
| childOf |
Henry Dashwood
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Mrs. Dashwood ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Jane Austen
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Jane Austen ⓘ Jane Austen ⓘ |
| familyMember |
Elinor Dashwood
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Henry Dashwood ⓘ Margaret Dashwood ⓘ Marianne Dashwood ⓘ Mrs. Dashwood ⓘ |
| familyName |
Dashwood
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Dashwood ⓘ Dashwood ⓘ Dashwood ⓘ Dashwood ⓘ |
| givenName |
Elinor
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linked to:
Elinor Dashwood
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| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| sibling |
Margaret Dashwood
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Marianne Dashwood ⓘ |
| usedInWork | Sense and Sensibility ⓘ |
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: Dashwood Description of subject: Dashwood is the surname of the central family in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility," including the character Elinor Dashwood.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.