Emma Lucretia Dobbin
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Emma Lucretia Dobbin was the mother of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu and a member of the Dobbin family connected to Dublin’s professional and literary circles in the 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emma Lucretia Dobbin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11203500 — 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: Emma Lucretia Dobbin Context triple: [Sheridan Le Fanu, mother, Emma Lucretia Dobbin]
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A.
Lavinia Penniman
Lavinia Penniman is a meddlesome, romantic-minded aunt in Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," whose interference significantly shapes the story’s central relationships.
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B.
Patience Brewster
Patience Brewster was a 17th-century English colonist in Plymouth Colony, known as the daughter of Elder William Brewster and the wife of colonial governor Thomas Prence.
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C.
Wilhelmina Venable
Wilhelmina Venable is a strict, enigmatic leader of a post-apocalyptic outpost in the TV series "American Horror Story: Apocalypse," portrayed by Sarah Paulson.
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D.
Eleanor Pittman
Eleanor Pittman is known as the first wife of acclaimed American stage and film actor Jason Robards.
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E.
Miss Mary B. Bradford
Miss Mary B. Bradford was the woman who sponsored and ceremonially christened the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Buck (DD-420) at its launching.
- 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: Emma Lucretia Dobbin Target entity description: Emma Lucretia Dobbin was the mother of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu and a member of the Dobbin family connected to Dublin’s professional and literary circles in the 19th century.
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A.
Lavinia Penniman
Lavinia Penniman is a meddlesome, romantic-minded aunt in Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," whose interference significantly shapes the story’s central relationships.
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B.
Patience Brewster
Patience Brewster was a 17th-century English colonist in Plymouth Colony, known as the daughter of Elder William Brewster and the wife of colonial governor Thomas Prence.
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C.
Wilhelmina Venable
Wilhelmina Venable is a strict, enigmatic leader of a post-apocalyptic outpost in the TV series "American Horror Story: Apocalypse," portrayed by Sarah Paulson.
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D.
Eleanor Pittman
Eleanor Pittman is known as the first wife of acclaimed American stage and film actor Jason Robards.
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E.
Miss Mary B. Bradford
Miss Mary B. Bradford was the woman who sponsored and ceremonially christened the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Buck (DD-420) at its launching.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother of a notable writer ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Dublin literary circles
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Dublin professional circles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | Dobbin ⓘ |
| genreOfRelative | Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Emma ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Dobbin family ⓘ |
| middleName | Lucretia ⓘ |
| motherOf | Sheridan Le Fanu ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Sheridan Le Fanu ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Dublin ⓘ |
| residence | Dublin ⓘ |
| socialClass | professional middle class ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | Irish literary milieu ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Emma Lucretia Dobbin Description of subject: Emma Lucretia Dobbin was the mother of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu and a member of the Dobbin family connected to Dublin’s professional and literary circles in the 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.