Mr. Woodhouse
E656537
Mr. Woodhouse is the anxious, hypochondriacal, and overprotective father of Emma Woodhouse in Jane Austen’s novel, whose fears and fussiness provide both humor and obstacles to social activity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Woodhouse canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7325738 — 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. Woodhouse Context triple: [Emma (novel), mainCharacter, Mr. Woodhouse]
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A.
Emma Woodhouse
Emma Woodhouse is the clever, wealthy, and somewhat meddlesome heroine of Jane Austen’s novel "Emma," known for her misguided attempts at matchmaking in her small English village.
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B.
Mrs. Wilcox
Mrs. Wilcox is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Howards End," an elderly, gentle, and spiritually minded matriarch whose values and legacy profoundly influence the story's events and relationships.
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C.
Harriet Westbrook
Harriet Westbrook was the first wife of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose tragic early death and troubled marriage have drawn significant biographical interest.
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D.
Mr Bennet
Mr Bennet is the witty, detached patriarch of the Bennet family in Jane Austen’s novel "Pride and Prejudice."
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E.
Sylvia Crawley
Sylvia Crawley is a former American professional basketball player and coach best known for her standout college career at North Carolina, her time in the ABL and WNBA, and later head coaching roles in women’s college basketball.
- 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. Woodhouse Target entity description: Mr. Woodhouse is the anxious, hypochondriacal, and overprotective father of Emma Woodhouse in Jane Austen’s novel, whose fears and fussiness provide both humor and obstacles to social activity.
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A.
Emma Woodhouse
Emma Woodhouse is the clever, wealthy, and somewhat meddlesome heroine of Jane Austen’s novel "Emma," known for her misguided attempts at matchmaking in her small English village.
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B.
Mrs. Wilcox
Mrs. Wilcox is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Howards End," an elderly, gentle, and spiritually minded matriarch whose values and legacy profoundly influence the story's events and relationships.
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C.
Harriet Westbrook
Harriet Westbrook was the first wife of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose tragic early death and troubled marriage have drawn significant biographical interest.
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D.
Mr Bennet
Mr Bennet is the witty, detached patriarch of the Bennet family in Jane Austen’s novel "Pride and Prejudice."
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E.
Sylvia Crawley
Sylvia Crawley is a former American professional basketball player and coach best known for her standout college career at North Carolina, her time in the ABL and WNBA, and later head coaching roles in women’s college basketball.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| ageCharacteristic | elderly ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Emma ⓘ |
| appearsInChapterCount | multiple chapters of Emma ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
novel of manners
ⓘ
romantic fiction ⓘ |
| concern |
cold weather
ⓘ
diet ⓘ evening parties ⓘ health ⓘ travel ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| creator | Jane Austen ⓘ |
| familyName | Woodhouse ⓘ |
| firstPublicationAppearance | 1815 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Emma Woodhouse
ⓘ
Isabella Knightley ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
George Knightley
ⓘ
linked to:
Mr. Knightley
John Knightley ⓘ
linked to:
Mr. Knightley
|
| householdRole | head of household ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction | satire of excessive caution ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widower ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
comic figure
ⓘ
obstacle to social activity ⓘ |
| occupation | landowner ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
anxious
ⓘ
fussy ⓘ hypochondriacal ⓘ overprotective ⓘ timid ⓘ |
| relationshipToEmmaWoodhouse | father ⓘ |
| residence |
Hartfield
ⓘ
Highbury ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Regency era ⓘ |
| socialClass | gentry ⓘ |
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. Woodhouse Description of subject: Mr. Woodhouse is the anxious, hypochondriacal, and overprotective father of Emma Woodhouse in Jane Austen’s novel, whose fears and fussiness provide both humor and obstacles to social activity.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.