Edgar Linton
E244141
Edgar Linton is a refined, gentle, and affluent gentleman in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose marriage to Catherine Earnshaw contrasts sharply with Heathcliff’s passionate nature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edgar Linton canonical | 22 |
| Mr. Linton | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2228490 — 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: Edgar Linton Context triple: [Wuthering Heights, mainCharacter, Edgar Linton]
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A.
Heathcliff
Heathcliff is the dark, brooding antihero of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known for his intense, tragic love and vengeful nature.
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B.
Nathaniel Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester was an American Revolutionary War officer, land speculator, and founder of the city of Rochester in New York.
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C.
Edgar
Edgar is the first name of Edgar Allan Poe, the influential 19th-century American writer known for his macabre poetry and pioneering detective fiction.
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D.
Lord de Winter
Lord de Winter is a fictional English nobleman from Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" universe, known primarily as the estranged husband of the enigmatic spy Milady de Winter.
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E.
Mr. Rochester
Mr. Rochester is the brooding, complex master of Thornfield Hall and Jane Eyre’s enigmatic love interest in Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel "Jane Eyre."
- 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: Edgar Linton Target entity description: Edgar Linton is a refined, gentle, and affluent gentleman in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose marriage to Catherine Earnshaw contrasts sharply with Heathcliff’s passionate nature.
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A.
Heathcliff
Heathcliff is the dark, brooding antihero of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," known for his intense, tragic love and vengeful nature.
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B.
Nathaniel Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester was an American Revolutionary War officer, land speculator, and founder of the city of Rochester in New York.
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C.
Edgar
Edgar is the first name of Edgar Allan Poe, the influential 19th-century American writer known for his macabre poetry and pioneering detective fiction.
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D.
Lord de Winter
Lord de Winter is a fictional English nobleman from Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" universe, known primarily as the estranged husband of the enigmatic spy Milady de Winter.
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E.
Mr. Rochester
Mr. Rochester is the brooding, complex master of Thornfield Hall and Jane Eyre’s enigmatic love interest in Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel "Jane Eyre."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Edgar Linton Description of subject: Edgar Linton is a refined, gentle, and affluent gentleman in Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights," whose marriage to Catherine Earnshaw contrasts sharply with Heathcliff’s passionate nature.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Earnshaw family and Linton family
linked to: Edgar Linton
subject linked to:
Earnshaw family and Linton family
subject linked to:
Earnshaw family and Linton family
subject linked to:
Earnshaw family and Linton family
linked to: Edgar Linton
linked to: Edgar Linton
linked to: Edgar Linton
subject linked to:
Wuthering Heights