Mary: A Fiction
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"Mary: A Fiction" is an early feminist novel by Mary Wollstonecraft that explores the emotional and intellectual struggles of a young woman constrained by 18th-century social norms.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary: A Fiction canonical | 3 |
| Mary (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T235673 — 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: Mary: A Fiction Context triple: [Mary Wollstonecraft, notableWork, Mary: A Fiction]
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A.
The Mysterious Mother
The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Shirley
Shirley is an English surname of Old English origin that has also become a common given name.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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E.
The Constant Maid
The Constant Maid is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, known for its witty dialogue and exploration of love and social manners.
- 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: Mary: A Fiction Target entity description: "Mary: A Fiction" is an early feminist novel by Mary Wollstonecraft that explores the emotional and intellectual struggles of a young woman constrained by 18th-century social norms.
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A.
The Mysterious Mother
The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Shirley
Shirley is an English surname of Old English origin that has also become a common given name.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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E.
The Constant Maid
The Constant Maid is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, known for its witty dialogue and exploration of love and social manners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Mary Wollstonecraft ⓘ |
| authorGender | female ⓘ |
| centuryOfWork | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublisherCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist literature
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novel ⓘ romantic novel ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | recognized as an important early feminist text ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 18th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mary ⓘ |
| movement |
Romanticism
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early feminism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the earliest feminist novels in English
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depicting a woman's inner emotional and intellectual life ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1788 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
a young woman's struggle against social constraints
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conflict between reason and feeling ⓘ |
| theme |
constraints of social norms
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critique of marriage ⓘ female friendship ⓘ intellectual independence ⓘ sensibility ⓘ women's emotional life ⓘ |
| title | Mary: A Fiction ⓘ |
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: Mary: A Fiction Description of subject: "Mary: A Fiction" is an early feminist novel by Mary Wollstonecraft that explores the emotional and intellectual struggles of a young woman constrained by 18th-century social norms.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.