Judith’s maidservant

E339280

biblical character fictional maidservant supporting character

Judith’s maidservant is the loyal attendant who aids Judith in the biblical story of Holofernes’s beheading, often depicted in art as helping conceal or carry the severed head.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Judith and her Maidservant	1
Judith and her maidservant	1
Judith’s maidservant canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3186199 — 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: Judith’s maidservant
Context triple: [Judith Beheading Holofernes, mainCharacter, Judith’s maidservant]

A. Judith
Judith is the given name of acclaimed English actress Judi Dench, renowned for her work in theatre, film, and television.
B. Judith
Judith is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible that tells the story of a courageous Jewish widow who saves her people by beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes.
C. Judith Coppicus
Judith Coppicus was the first wife of renowned film director Billy Wilder, to whom he was married in the 1930s before their eventual divorce.
D. Susanna
Susanna is a deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Daniel, telling the story of a virtuous woman falsely accused of adultery and vindicated by the prophet Daniel.
E. Drusilla of Judea
Drusilla of Judea was a 1st-century princess of the Herodian royal family, known as the daughter of Herod Agrippa I and for her marriage to the Roman procurator Antonius Felix.
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: Judith’s maidservant
Target entity description: Judith’s maidservant is the loyal attendant who aids Judith in the biblical story of Holofernes’s beheading, often depicted in art as helping conceal or carry the severed head.

A. Judith
Judith is the given name of acclaimed English actress Judi Dench, renowned for her work in theatre, film, and television.
B. Judith
Judith is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible that tells the story of a courageous Jewish widow who saves her people by beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes.
C. Judith Coppicus
Judith Coppicus was the first wife of renowned film director Billy Wilder, to whom he was married in the 1930s before their eventual divorce.
D. Susanna
Susanna is a deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Daniel, telling the story of a virtuous woman falsely accused of adultery and vindicated by the prophet Daniel.
E. Drusilla of Judea
Drusilla of Judea was a 1st-century princess of the Herodian royal family, known as the daughter of Herod Agrippa I and for her marriage to the Roman procurator Antonius Felix.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	biblical character ⓘ fictional maidservant ⓘ supporting character ⓘ
appearsIn	Book of Judith ⓘ
appearsInWorkOfArt	Judith Beheading Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi) ⓘ linked to: Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi) Judith and Her Maidservant (Artemisia Gentileschi, Detroit) ⓘ Judith and Her Maidservant (Artemisia Gentileschi, Florence) ⓘ linked to: Judith and Her Maidservant (Artemisia Gentileschi, Detroit) Judith and Her Maidservant (Orazio Gentileschi) ⓘ linked to: Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes Judith and Her Maidservant (Valentin de Boulogne) ⓘ Judith and Her Maidservant (various Baroque paintings) ⓘ linked to: Judith and Her Maidservant (Valentin de Boulogne) Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi) ⓘ linked to: Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes Judith and Holofernes (Caravaggio) ⓘ Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Lucas Cranach the Elder) ⓘ linked to: Judith with the Head of Holofernes
artHistoricalTheme	Judith and Holofernes ⓘ Judith and her maidservant ⓘ linked to: Judith’s maidservant
associatedWith	Holofernes ⓘ Judith ⓘ
associatedWithEvent	beheading of Holofernes ⓘ
characterTrait	courageous ⓘ discreet ⓘ loyal ⓘ
characterType	loyal servant ⓘ
gender	female ⓘ
hasNoProperName	true ⓘ
hasRole	attendant of Judith ⓘ
helpsWith	concealment of Holofernes’s head ⓘ deception of Holofernes ⓘ execution of Judith’s plan ⓘ transport of Holofernes’s head ⓘ
iconographicAttribute	bag ⓘ basket ⓘ cloth ⓘ lamp or lantern ⓘ
literaryGenre	deuterocanonical literature ⓘ
literarySetting	Bethulia ⓘ
nameInText	not specified in the biblical narrative ⓘ
narrativeFunction	assistant to heroine ⓘ witness of Holofernes’s death ⓘ
oftenDepictedAs	helping Judith carry the severed head ⓘ holding a bag or cloth for the head of Holofernes ⓘ standing beside Judith ⓘ
religiousTradition	Christianity ⓘ Judaism ⓘ
roleInPlot	accompanies Judith to Holofernes’s camp ⓘ assists Judith in returning to the city with the head ⓘ guards the entrance to Judith’s tent ⓘ
serves	Judith ⓘ
timeOfStory	Assyrian campaign against Bethulia ⓘ linked to: Assyrian siege of Bethulia

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Judith Beheading Holofernes → mainCharacter → Judith’s maidservant ⓘ

Artemisia Gentileschi → notableWork → Judith and her Maidservant ⓘ

linked to: Judith’s maidservant

Judith’s maidservant → artHistoricalTheme → Judith and her maidservant ⓘ