Sarah Fielding
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Sarah Fielding was an 18th-century English novelist and translator, best known for her pioneering work "The Adventures of David Simple" and for being one of the earliest women to publish fiction in English.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah Fielding canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7136097 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sarah Fielding Context triple: [Henry Fielding, sibling, Sarah Fielding]
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A.
Mary Feilding
Mary Feilding was a 17th-century English noblewoman from the prominent Feilding family who became Duchess of Hamilton through her marriage to James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton.
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B.
Venetia Burney
Venetia Burney was the English schoolgirl who, in 1930, proposed the name "Pluto" for the newly discovered dwarf planet.
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C.
Lucy Aikin
Lucy Aikin was a prominent English historian, biographer, and writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for her historical works on the courts of Elizabeth I and James I.
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D.
Catherine Greville
Catherine Greville was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known primarily for her marriage into the influential Buckingham and Normanby ducal family.
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E.
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.
- 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: Sarah Fielding Target entity description: Sarah Fielding was an 18th-century English novelist and translator, best known for her pioneering work "The Adventures of David Simple" and for being one of the earliest women to publish fiction in English.
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A.
Mary Feilding
Mary Feilding was a 17th-century English noblewoman from the prominent Feilding family who became Duchess of Hamilton through her marriage to James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton.
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B.
Venetia Burney
Venetia Burney was the English schoolgirl who, in 1930, proposed the name "Pluto" for the newly discovered dwarf planet.
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C.
Lucy Aikin
Lucy Aikin was a prominent English historian, biographer, and writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for her historical works on the courts of Elizabeth I and James I.
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D.
Catherine Greville
Catherine Greville was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known primarily for her marriage into the influential Buckingham and Normanby ducal family.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1710-11-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1768-04-09 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Fielding ⓘ |
| father | Edmund Fielding ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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moral fiction ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Henry Fielding
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Samuel Richardson ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Enlightenment ⓘ |
| mother | Sarah Gould ⓘ |
| movement | Augustan literature ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
among the earliest women to publish fiction in English
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pioneer of the English novel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of a psychological novel in The Adventures of David Simple
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writing one of the first English novels for children, The Governess, or The Little Female Academy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple
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linked to:
Familiar Letters
Remarks on Clarissa ⓘ
linked to:
Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
The Adventures of David Simple ⓘ The Adventures of David Simple: Volume the Last ⓘ The Governess, or The Little Female Academy ⓘ The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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translator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | East Stour, Dorset ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Bath, Somerset
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linked to:
Bath
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| residence |
Bath, Somerset
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linked to:
Bath
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Henry Fielding
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John Fielding ⓘ |
| translatedFromLanguage |
Greek
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Latin ⓘ |
| translatedWork |
Xenophon’s Memorabilia (adapted for young readers)
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linked to:
Xenophon's Memorabilia
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| wroteAbout |
female education
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friendship ⓘ morality ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: Sarah Fielding Description of subject: Sarah Fielding was an 18th-century English novelist and translator, best known for her pioneering work "The Adventures of David Simple" and for being one of the earliest women to publish fiction in English.
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