Frances Maria Sewell
E129106
Frances Maria Sewell was the mother of English Gothic novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, known for his novel "The Monk."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frances Maria Sewell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1118748 — 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: Frances Maria Sewell Context triple: [Matthew Gregory Lewis, mother, Frances Maria Sewell]
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A.
Gwen Raverat
Gwen Raverat was a pioneering British wood engraver and illustrator, and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, known for her influential role in the revival of wood engraving in the early 20th century.
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B.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a 20th-century English novelist, poet, and short story writer known for her innovative fiction, including "Lolly Willowes," and her association with the Bloomsbury Group and leftist politics.
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C.
Astrid Lindley
Astrid Lindley is known as the wife of late Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
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D.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
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E.
Rebecca Gaskell
Rebecca Gaskell was the mother of British military leader and colonial administrator Robert Clive, a key figure in establishing British rule in India.
- 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: Frances Maria Sewell Target entity description: Frances Maria Sewell was the mother of English Gothic novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, known for his novel "The Monk."
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A.
Gwen Raverat
Gwen Raverat was a pioneering British wood engraver and illustrator, and a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, known for her influential role in the revival of wood engraving in the early 20th century.
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B.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a 20th-century English novelist, poet, and short story writer known for her innovative fiction, including "Lolly Willowes," and her association with the Bloomsbury Group and leftist politics.
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C.
Astrid Lindley
Astrid Lindley is known as the wife of late Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
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D.
Louise Whitfield
Louise Whitfield was an American philanthropist best known as the wife of industrialist Andrew Carnegie and for her extensive charitable work.
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E.
Rebecca Gaskell
Rebecca Gaskell was the mother of British military leader and colonial administrator Robert Clive, a key figure in establishing British rule in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatist
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human ⓘ human ⓘ mother ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| author | Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| child | Matthew Gregory Lewis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| mother | Frances Maria Sewell ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Monk ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Frances Maria Sewell Description of subject: Frances Maria Sewell was the mother of English Gothic novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, known for his novel "The Monk."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.