Matthew Maule
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Matthew Maule is a fictional figure in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The House of the Seven Gables," originally the land’s owner whose dispossession and execution for witchcraft cast a long curse over the Pyncheon family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Maule canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9574215 — 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: Matthew Maule Context triple: [Pyncheon family mansion, associatedWithCharacter, Matthew Maule]
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A.
William Pynchon
William Pynchon was a 17th-century English colonist, fur trader, and magistrate in New England, best known as an early Puritan settler and controversial religious writer.
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B.
Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam was an American Revolutionary War officer and surveyor known as the “Father of the Northwest Territory” for his leading role in settling and organizing the Ohio Country.
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C.
Ebenezer Breed
Ebenezer Breed was a prominent Boston merchant and landowner in the 18th century whose name was given to Breed's Hill, a key site in the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Nathaniel Motte
Nathaniel Motte is an American musician, producer, and member of the electronic music duo 3OH!3.
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E.
Warden Samuel Norton
Warden Samuel Norton is the corrupt, Bible-quoting prison administrator who serves as the primary antagonist in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
- 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: Matthew Maule Target entity description: Matthew Maule is a fictional figure in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The House of the Seven Gables," originally the land’s owner whose dispossession and execution for witchcraft cast a long curse over the Pyncheon family.
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A.
William Pynchon
William Pynchon was a 17th-century English colonist, fur trader, and magistrate in New England, best known as an early Puritan settler and controversial religious writer.
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B.
Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam was an American Revolutionary War officer and surveyor known as the “Father of the Northwest Territory” for his leading role in settling and organizing the Ohio Country.
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C.
Ebenezer Breed
Ebenezer Breed was a prominent Boston merchant and landowner in the 18th century whose name was given to Breed's Hill, a key site in the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Nathaniel Motte
Nathaniel Motte is an American musician, producer, and member of the electronic music duo 3OH!3.
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E.
Warden Samuel Norton
Warden Samuel Norton is the corrupt, Bible-quoting prison administrator who serves as the primary antagonist in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The House of the Seven Gables ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
Gothic fiction
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historical fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
curse on the Pyncheon family
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themes of inherited guilt ⓘ themes of injustice ⓘ themes of retribution ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Colonel Pyncheon ⓘ |
| creator | Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ |
| dispossessedBy | Colonel Pyncheon ⓘ |
| executedBy | authorities of colonial New England ⓘ |
| executedFor | witchcraft ⓘ |
| familyName | Maule ⓘ |
| hasDescendant | younger Matthew Maule (the daguerreotypist Holgrave) ⓘ |
| influences | fate of the Pyncheon family across generations ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lastWords | God will give him blood to drink ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
origin of the Pyncheon family misfortunes
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symbol of victims of persecution ⓘ |
| occupation | carpenter ⓘ |
| propertyLost | land later used for the House of the Seven Gables ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
original owner of the land where the Pyncheon house is built
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source of a hereditary curse on the Pyncheon family ⓘ victim of a witchcraft accusation ⓘ |
| setInPlace | New England ⓘ |
| setInTime | late 17th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Matthew Maule Description of subject: Matthew Maule is a fictional figure in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The House of the Seven Gables," originally the land’s owner whose dispossession and execution for witchcraft cast a long curse over the Pyncheon family.
Referenced by (1)
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