Isabel March
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Isabel March is a fictional character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," representing the social and moral complexities of middle-class life in late 19th-century New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isabel March canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842911 — 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: Isabel March Context triple: [A Hazard of New Fortunes, character, Isabel March]
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A.
Eleanor Harding
Eleanor Harding is a gentle, principled young woman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Warden," known for her moral sensitivity and loyalty amid the story’s ecclesiastical and social conflicts.
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B.
Isabella Strahan
Isabella Strahan is an American college student and model best known as the daughter of former NFL star and television personality Michael Strahan.
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C.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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D.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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E.
Anna Scott
Anna Scott is a famous American movie star who becomes romantically involved with a shy British bookseller in the romantic comedy film "Notting Hill."
- 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: Isabel March Target entity description: Isabel March is a fictional character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," representing the social and moral complexities of middle-class life in late 19th-century New York City.
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A.
Eleanor Harding
Eleanor Harding is a gentle, principled young woman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Warden," known for her moral sensitivity and loyalty amid the story’s ecclesiastical and social conflicts.
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B.
Isabella Strahan
Isabella Strahan is an American college student and model best known as the daughter of former NFL star and television personality Michael Strahan.
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C.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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D.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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E.
Anna Scott
Anna Scott is a famous American movie star who becomes romantically involved with a shy British bookseller in the romantic comedy film "Notting Hill."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
morality
ⓘ
social class ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| depicts |
middle-class life
ⓘ
moral complexities ⓘ social complexities ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ |
| genre | realist literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American realism
ⓘ
linked to:
Realism
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| narrativeRole | major character ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1890 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace | New York City ⓘ |
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: Isabel March Description of subject: Isabel March is a fictional character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," representing the social and moral complexities of middle-class life in late 19th-century New York City.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.