Maggie Tulliver
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Maggie Tulliver is the passionate, intelligent, and emotionally conflicted heroine of George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose struggles with family loyalty, social convention, and personal desire drive the story’s central tragedy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maggie Tulliver canonical | 46 |
| Maggie Tulliver and Philip Wakem | 1 |
| Maggie Tulliver’s suitor | 1 |
| MaggieTulliver | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2894193 — 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: Maggie Tulliver Context triple: [The Mill on the Floss, mainCharacter, Maggie Tulliver]
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A.
Mary Milton
Mary Milton was one of the daughters of the English poet John Milton, best known for her familial connection to the author of "Paradise Lost."
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B.
Agnes Carpenter
Agnes Carpenter was the wife of American film director and screenwriter Samuel Fuller.
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C.
Dorothea
Dorothea is the middle name of Angela Merkel, the long-serving former chancellor of Germany.
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D.
Agnes
Agnes is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "pure" or "chaste," historically popular in various European cultures and Christian traditions.
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E.
Agnes
Agnes is the devout young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Agnes of Sorrento," set in Renaissance Italy.
- 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: Maggie Tulliver Target entity description: Maggie Tulliver is the passionate, intelligent, and emotionally conflicted heroine of George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose struggles with family loyalty, social convention, and personal desire drive the story’s central tragedy.
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A.
Mary Milton
Mary Milton was one of the daughters of the English poet John Milton, best known for her familial connection to the author of "Paradise Lost."
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B.
Agnes Carpenter
Agnes Carpenter was the wife of American film director and screenwriter Samuel Fuller.
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C.
Dorothea
Dorothea is the middle name of Angela Merkel, the long-serving former chancellor of Germany.
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D.
Agnes
Agnes is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "pure" or "chaste," historically popular in various European cultures and Christian traditions.
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E.
Agnes
Agnes is the devout young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Agnes of Sorrento," set in Renaissance Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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heroine ⓘ literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Mill on the Floss ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | Victorian novel ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Dorlcote Mill
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St. Ogg's ⓘ |
| centralTo | tragedy of The Mill on the Floss ⓘ |
| createdBy | George Eliot ⓘ |
| diesIn | flood at St. Ogg's ⓘ |
| diesWith | Tom Tulliver ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAunt |
Mrs. Deane
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Mrs. Glegg ⓘ Mrs. Pullet ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTrait |
emotionally conflicted
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imaginative ⓘ impulsive ⓘ intelligent ⓘ passionate ⓘ rebellious ⓘ self-sacrificing ⓘ |
| hasCousin | Lucy Deane ⓘ |
| hasEducation | largely self-educated ⓘ |
| hasFather | Mr. Tulliver ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest |
Philip Wakem
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Stephen Guest ⓘ |
| hasMoralConflict |
elopement attempt with Stephen Guest
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relationship with Philip Wakem ⓘ |
| hasMother |
Mrs. Tulliver
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linked to:
Barbara Tulliver
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| hasSibling | Tom Tulliver ⓘ |
| hasThemeRelation |
conflict between individual desire and social duty
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constraints on women in Victorian society ⓘ female intellectual frustration ⓘ sibling loyalty ⓘ |
| influences | readers’ perception of women’s inner lives in Victorian fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | focus of psychological development in the novel ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| publicationContext | character in an 1860 novel ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
family loyalty
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personal desire ⓘ religious duty ⓘ social convention ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
conflict between passion and renunciation
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struggle of a sensitive nature against rigid social norms ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Maggie Tulliver Description of subject: Maggie Tulliver is the passionate, intelligent, and emotionally conflicted heroine of George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss," whose struggles with family loyalty, social convention, and personal desire drive the story’s central tragedy.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the River Floss
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is Tom Tulliver's sister
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is Tom Tulliver's sister
Maggie Tulliver has a close relationship with Philip Wakem
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MaggieTulliver
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linked to: Maggie Tulliver
subject linked to:
Maggie Tulliver is romantically involved with Stephen Guest
linked to: Maggie Tulliver
subject linked to:
Fictional town of St. Ogg’s
subject linked to:
PhilipWakem
subject linked to:
PhilipWakem
subject linked to:
PhilipWakem
subject linked to:
PhilipWakem
subject linked to:
PhilipWakem
linked to: Maggie Tulliver