Maud du Puy
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Maud du Puy was an American-born socialite who became part of the prominent Darwin family through her marriage to the English astronomer and mathematician George Howard Darwin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maud du Puy canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T603843 — 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 du Puy Context triple: [George Howard Darwin, spouse, Maud du Puy]
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A.
Idelette de Bure
Idelette de Bure was the wife of Protestant Reformer John Calvin, a former Anabaptist widow who supported his ministry in Strasbourg and Geneva.
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B.
Maria Hardouin di Gallese
Maria Hardouin di Gallese was an Italian noblewoman best known as the wife of poet and playwright Gabriele D’Annunzio.
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C.
Célestine Musson
Célestine Musson was the New Orleans–born Creole mother of French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas, whose family background influenced his connections to both France and the United States.
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D.
Adrienne de Noailles
Adrienne de Noailles was a French aristocrat and political hostess from the influential Noailles family who played a significant supporting role in the life and career of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.
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E.
Marie de France
Marie de France was a 12th-century poet, considered one of the earliest known female writers in French, renowned for her lais and other narrative works in the Anglo-Norman literary tradition.
- 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 du Puy Target entity description: Maud du Puy was an American-born socialite who became part of the prominent Darwin family through her marriage to the English astronomer and mathematician George Howard Darwin.
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A.
Idelette de Bure
Idelette de Bure was the wife of Protestant Reformer John Calvin, a former Anabaptist widow who supported his ministry in Strasbourg and Geneva.
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B.
Maria Hardouin di Gallese
Maria Hardouin di Gallese was an Italian noblewoman best known as the wife of poet and playwright Gabriele D’Annunzio.
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C.
Célestine Musson
Célestine Musson was the New Orleans–born Creole mother of French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas, whose family background influenced his connections to both France and the United States.
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D.
Adrienne de Noailles
Adrienne de Noailles was a French aristocrat and political hostess from the influential Noailles family who played a significant supporting role in the life and career of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.
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E.
Marie de France
Marie de France was a 12th-century poet, considered one of the earliest known female writers in French, renowned for her lais and other narrative works in the Anglo-Norman literary tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American-born person
ⓘ
member of the Darwin family ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | du Puy ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Charles Darwin ⓘ |
| givenName | Maud ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriedInto | British aristocratic and scientific circles ⓘ |
| memberOf | Darwin family ⓘ |
| motherInLaw | Emma Darwin ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection |
Darwin–Wedgwood family network
ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin–Wedgwood family
|
| notableFor | marriage to George Howard Darwin ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Charles Darwin ⓘ |
| residence | Cambridge, England ⓘ |
| socialCircle |
British academic society
ⓘ
Cambridge intellectual community ⓘ |
| spouse |
George Howard Darwin
ⓘ
Maud du Puy ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer |
University of Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| spouseOccupation |
astronomer
ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ |
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 du Puy Description of subject: Maud du Puy was an American-born socialite who became part of the prominent Darwin family through her marriage to the English astronomer and mathematician George Howard Darwin.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.