Millamant
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Millamant is the witty, fashionable, and sharp-tongued heroine of William Congreve’s Restoration comedy "The Way of the World."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Millamant canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7136569 — 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: Millamant Context triple: [William Congreve, hasCharacter, Millamant]
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A.
Fanny Trellis Skeffington
Fanny Trellis Skeffington is the beautiful, vain New York socialite whose emotional and moral transformation drives the plot of the novel and film "Mr. Skeffington."
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B.
Miss Froy
Miss Froy is a seemingly innocuous English governess whose mysterious disappearance aboard a trans-European train drives the suspenseful plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "The Lady Vanishes."
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C.
Frances Fairfax
Frances Fairfax is a member of the Fairfax family, historically associated with the English nobility and gentry.
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D.
Lady Marchmain
Lady Marchmain is the devout, aristocratic matriarch of the Flyte family whose rigid Catholicism and emotional control profoundly shape the lives of her children in Brideshead Revisited.
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E.
Millicent
Millicent is the given first name of actress Barbara Bain, known for her roles in the television series "Mission: Impossible" and "Space: 1999."
- 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: Millamant Target entity description: Millamant is the witty, fashionable, and sharp-tongued heroine of William Congreve’s Restoration comedy "The Way of the World."
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A.
Fanny Trellis Skeffington
Fanny Trellis Skeffington is the beautiful, vain New York socialite whose emotional and moral transformation drives the plot of the novel and film "Mr. Skeffington."
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B.
Miss Froy
Miss Froy is a seemingly innocuous English governess whose mysterious disappearance aboard a trans-European train drives the suspenseful plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "The Lady Vanishes."
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C.
Frances Fairfax
Frances Fairfax is a member of the Fairfax family, historically associated with the English nobility and gentry.
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D.
Lady Marchmain
Lady Marchmain is the devout, aristocratic matriarch of the Flyte family whose rigid Catholicism and emotional control profoundly shape the lives of her children in Brideshead Revisited.
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E.
Millicent
Millicent is the given first name of actress Barbara Bain, known for her roles in the television series "Mission: Impossible" and "Space: 1999."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
heroine ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Way of the World
ⓘ
linked to:
The Way of the World (stage)
|
| associatedWithTheme |
female autonomy
ⓘ
marriage negotiations ⓘ social satire ⓘ wit and manners ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
clever
ⓘ
fashionable ⓘ independent ⓘ satirical ⓘ sharp-tongued ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWorkContext | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Congreve ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceOfWorkContext | 1700 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext |
Restoration comedy
ⓘ
linked to:
Restoration theatre
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| hasCulturalReception | celebrated as one of Congreve’s finest comic heroines ⓘ |
| hasDialogueStyle |
elaborate repartee
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epigrammatic wit ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySignificance | exemplar of the witty Restoration heroine archetype ⓘ |
| hasMedium | theatre ⓘ |
| hasNotableScene | proviso scene with Mirabell ⓘ |
| hasRomanticInterest | Mirabell ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatusInFiction | gentlewoman ⓘ |
| influencedByContext | late 17th-century London high society ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkContext | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
female lead
ⓘ
romantic heroine ⓘ |
| setInWorkContext |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| workContextAuthor | William Congreve ⓘ |
| workContextForm | stage play ⓘ |
| workContextLiteraryPeriod | Restoration literature ⓘ |
| workContextTitle |
The Way of the World
ⓘ
linked to:
The Way of the World (stage)
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Millamant Description of subject: Millamant is the witty, fashionable, and sharp-tongued heroine of William Congreve’s Restoration comedy "The Way of the World."
Referenced by (3)
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