Mrs. Wix
E245596
Mrs. Wix is a morally rigid, impoverished governess who serves as a key guardian and moral counterpoint in Henry James’s novel "What Maisie Knew."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Wix canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2210485 — 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: Mrs. Wix Context triple: [What Maisie Knew, character, Mrs. Wix]
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A.
Mabel Grex
Mabel Grex is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Duke's Children," known for her beauty, charm, and complex romantic entanglements within high society.
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B.
Phyllis
Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
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C.
Dame Van Winkle
Dame Van Winkle is the nagging, overbearing wife of the title character in Washington Irving’s short story "Rip Van Winkle."
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D.
Mavis
Mavis is a character in Enid Blyton’s "Malory Towers" series, known as a talented but vain singer whose ambition often leads her into trouble.
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E.
Mavis
Mavis is a central character in the animated Hotel Transylvania film series, known as Dracula’s spirited and independent vampire daughter.
- 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: Mrs. Wix Target entity description: Mrs. Wix is a morally rigid, impoverished governess who serves as a key guardian and moral counterpoint in Henry James’s novel "What Maisie Knew."
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A.
Mabel Grex
Mabel Grex is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Duke's Children," known for her beauty, charm, and complex romantic entanglements within high society.
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B.
Phyllis
Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
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C.
Dame Van Winkle
Dame Van Winkle is the nagging, overbearing wife of the title character in Washington Irving’s short story "Rip Van Winkle."
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D.
Mavis
Mavis is a character in Enid Blyton’s "Malory Towers" series, known as a talented but vain singer whose ambition often leads her into trouble.
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E.
Mavis
Mavis is a central character in the animated Hotel Transylvania film series, known as Dracula’s spirited and independent vampire daughter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ governess ⓘ |
| appearsIn | What Maisie Knew ⓘ |
| appearsInForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
childhood innocence
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guardianship ⓘ morality ⓘ |
| caresFor | Maisie Farange ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Beale Farange
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Ida Farange ⓘ Mrs. Beale ⓘ Sir Claude ⓘ |
| createdBy | Henry James ⓘ |
| economicStatus |
financially insecure
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poor ⓘ |
| embodies | Victorian moral code ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
What Maisie Knew (1897)
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linked to:
What Maisie Knew
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| genreContext |
novel of manners
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psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasEthicalFunction |
offers clear moral judgments
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tests Maisie’s moral choices ⓘ |
| hasMoralStance |
condemns adultery
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conventional morality ⓘ values duty ⓘ values marital fidelity ⓘ values respectability ⓘ |
| hasRole |
governess
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guardian ⓘ moral counterpoint ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
conscientious
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impoverished ⓘ morally rigid ⓘ protective ⓘ self-sacrificing ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| isGuardianOf | Maisie Farange ⓘ |
| isMoralGuideFor | Maisie Farange ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late Victorian literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
counterbalances moral ambiguity of other adults
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provides stable point of view for Maisie ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| relationshipToMaisie |
caretaker
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companion ⓘ moral instructor ⓘ |
| setting | late 19th-century England ⓘ |
| socialStatus | lower middle class ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
ethical absolutism
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rigid morality ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mrs. Wix Description of subject: Mrs. Wix is a morally rigid, impoverished governess who serves as a key guardian and moral counterpoint in Henry James’s novel "What Maisie Knew."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.