Maud Shaw
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Maud Shaw is the protagonist of Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," embodying traditional values and modesty amid changing social norms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maud Shaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3912750 — 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: Maud Shaw Context triple: [An Old-Fashioned Girl, mainCharacter, Maud Shaw]
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A.
Edith Cushing
Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
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B.
Elizabeth Wendell
Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
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C.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
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D.
Dorothy Lyman
Dorothy Lyman is an American actress and director best known for her roles on the soap opera "All My Children" and the sitcom "Mama's Family."
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E.
Rosalie Slaughter Morton
Rosalie Slaughter Morton was an American physician and pioneering female surgeon known for her contributions to public health, medical education, and cancer advocacy.
- 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: Maud Shaw Target entity description: Maud Shaw is the protagonist of Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," embodying traditional values and modesty amid changing social norms.
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A.
Edith Cushing
Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
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B.
Elizabeth Wendell
Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
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C.
Martha Hunt
Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
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D.
Dorothy Lyman
Dorothy Lyman is an American actress and director best known for her roles on the soap opera "All My Children" and the sitcom "Mama's Family."
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E.
Rosalie Slaughter Morton
Rosalie Slaughter Morton was an American physician and pioneering female surgeon known for her contributions to public health, medical education, and cancer advocacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | An Old-Fashioned Girl ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
changing social norms
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domesticity ⓘ middle-class life ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
kind
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modest ⓘ traditional ⓘ unpretentious ⓘ virtuous ⓘ |
| creator | Louisa May Alcott ⓘ |
| embodies | traditional values ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| setIn | 19th-century United States ⓘ |
| workGenre |
coming-of-age novel
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domestic 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: Maud Shaw Description of subject: Maud Shaw is the protagonist of Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," embodying traditional values and modesty amid changing social norms.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.