Fanny Shaw
E400150
Fanny Shaw is a wealthy, fashionable young woman in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," serving as a foil to the more modest and traditional protagonist, Polly Milton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fanny Shaw canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3912748 — 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: Fanny Shaw Context triple: [An Old-Fashioned Girl, mainCharacter, Fanny Shaw]
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A.
Fanny Eden
Fanny Eden was a member of the British Eden family in colonial India, after whom the famous cricket ground Eden Gardens in Kolkata was named.
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B.
Elizabeth Stewart, Countess of Crawford
Elizabeth Stewart, Countess of Crawford, was a Scottish noblewoman of the 14th century who, through her lineage and marriage, was connected to some of the most powerful aristocratic families in medieval Scotland.
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C.
Fanny Davies
Fanny Davies was a prominent British pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for her interpretations of Romantic repertoire and her close association with the Schumann and Brahms traditions.
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D.
Henrietta FitzJames
Henrietta FitzJames was an illegitimate daughter of King James II of England who became an English noblewoman noted for her marriages into prominent aristocratic families.
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E.
Letitia Cropley
Letitia Cropley is an eccentric parishioner in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," best known for her bizarre and unappetizing culinary creations.
- 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: Fanny Shaw Target entity description: Fanny Shaw is a wealthy, fashionable young woman in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," serving as a foil to the more modest and traditional protagonist, Polly Milton.
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A.
Fanny Eden
Fanny Eden was a member of the British Eden family in colonial India, after whom the famous cricket ground Eden Gardens in Kolkata was named.
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B.
Elizabeth Stewart, Countess of Crawford
Elizabeth Stewart, Countess of Crawford, was a Scottish noblewoman of the 14th century who, through her lineage and marriage, was connected to some of the most powerful aristocratic families in medieval Scotland.
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C.
Fanny Davies
Fanny Davies was a prominent British pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for her interpretations of Romantic repertoire and her close association with the Schumann and Brahms traditions.
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D.
Henrietta FitzJames
Henrietta FitzJames was an illegitimate daughter of King James II of England who became an English noblewoman noted for her marriages into prominent aristocratic families.
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E.
Letitia Cropley
Letitia Cropley is an eccentric parishioner in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," best known for her bizarre and unappetizing culinary creations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | An Old-Fashioned Girl ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
contrast between old-fashioned values and modern fashion
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female friendship ⓘ social class and wealth ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Polly Milton ⓘ |
| createdBy | Louisa May Alcott ⓘ |
| firstAppearsIn | An Old-Fashioned Girl ⓘ |
| friendOf | Polly Milton ⓘ |
| hasCharacterArc | grows more considerate and less superficial ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Shaw ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Fanny ⓘ |
| hasInterest |
fashion
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parties ⓘ social status ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Mr. Shaw
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Mrs. Shaw ⓘ |
| hasRole | foil to Polly Milton ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Tom Shaw ⓘ |
| hasSocialClass | wealthy ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
fashionable
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sophisticated ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ worldly ⓘ |
| livesIn | Boston ⓘ |
| memberOf | Shaw family ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1869 ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | urban society life ⓘ |
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: Fanny Shaw Description of subject: Fanny Shaw is a wealthy, fashionable young woman in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," serving as a foil to the more modest and traditional protagonist, Polly Milton.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.