Irene Lapham
E221669
Irene Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," embodying the emotional and social complexities of a young woman in post–Civil War Boston society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irene Lapham canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842828 — 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: Irene Lapham Context triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Irene Lapham]
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A.
Irene Redfield
Irene Redfield is the conflicted, upper-middle-class Black woman at the center of Nella Larsen’s novel "Passing," whose controlled life is unsettled by the reappearance of her racially passing childhood friend.
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B.
Florence Broadhurst
Florence Broadhurst was an Australian designer and entrepreneur best known for her bold, luxurious wallpaper and textile patterns that became iconic in mid-20th-century interior design.
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C.
Martha Vickers
Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
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D.
Lucille Sharpe
Lucille Sharpe is a central, sinister figure in Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror film "Crimson Peak," known for her intense, manipulative presence and dark family secrets.
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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- 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: Irene Lapham Target entity description: Irene Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," embodying the emotional and social complexities of a young woman in post–Civil War Boston society.
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A.
Irene Redfield
Irene Redfield is the conflicted, upper-middle-class Black woman at the center of Nella Larsen’s novel "Passing," whose controlled life is unsettled by the reappearance of her racially passing childhood friend.
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B.
Florence Broadhurst
Florence Broadhurst was an Australian designer and entrepreneur best known for her bold, luxurious wallpaper and textile patterns that became iconic in mid-20th-century interior design.
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C.
Martha Vickers
Martha Vickers was an American film and television actress best known for her role as Carmen Sternwood in the classic noir film "The Big Sleep" (1946).
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D.
Lucille Sharpe
Lucille Sharpe is a central, sinister figure in Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror film "Crimson Peak," known for her intense, manipulative presence and dark family secrets.
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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rise of Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
class mobility
ⓘ
family loyalty ⓘ moral choice ⓘ romantic idealization ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| depicts |
emotional complexities of young women in Gilded Age Boston
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social expectations in upper-middle-class Boston society ⓘ |
| familyName | Lapham ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Rise of Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | realist novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Irene ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | focus of romantic plot involving Tom Corey ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| parent |
Persis Lapham
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Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| relative |
Penelope Lapham
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Persis Lapham ⓘ Silas Lapham ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
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| roleInWork | central figure ⓘ |
| sibling | Penelope Lapham ⓘ |
| timePeriod | post–Civil War era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Irene Lapham Description of subject: Irene Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," embodying the emotional and social complexities of a young woman in post–Civil War Boston society.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.