Maud Ruthyn
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Maud Ruthyn is the young, impressionable heiress and narrator of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Gothic novel "Uncle Silas," whose perspective shapes the story’s atmosphere of suspense and psychological terror.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maud Ruthyn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11203573 — 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 Ruthyn Context triple: [Uncle Silas, mainCharacter, Maud Ruthyn]
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A.
Maud Gernon
Maud Gernon was the wife of American lawyer and suffragist Dudley Field Malone, known primarily in historical records through this marriage.
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B.
Maud Sampson
Maud Sampson is an individual interred at the Texas State Cemetery, a burial ground reserved for notable Texans and figures of historical significance to the state.
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C.
Maud Green
Maud Green was an English noblewoman of the early 16th century best known as the mother of Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII.
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D.
Muriella Keith
Muriella Keith was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, notable for her marriage into the powerful Stewart dynasty.
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E.
Maud Chaworth
Maud Chaworth was an English noblewoman and heiress of the early 14th century whose estates and lineage significantly strengthened the power and influence of the House of Lancaster.
- 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 Ruthyn Target entity description: Maud Ruthyn is the young, impressionable heiress and narrator of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Gothic novel "Uncle Silas," whose perspective shapes the story’s atmosphere of suspense and psychological terror.
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A.
Maud Gernon
Maud Gernon was the wife of American lawyer and suffragist Dudley Field Malone, known primarily in historical records through this marriage.
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B.
Maud Sampson
Maud Sampson is an individual interred at the Texas State Cemetery, a burial ground reserved for notable Texans and figures of historical significance to the state.
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C.
Maud Green
Maud Green was an English noblewoman of the early 16th century best known as the mother of Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII.
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D.
Muriella Keith
Muriella Keith was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, notable for her marriage into the powerful Stewart dynasty.
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E.
Maud Chaworth
Maud Chaworth was an English noblewoman and heiress of the early 14th century whose estates and lineage significantly strengthened the power and influence of the House of Lancaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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heiress ⓘ literary character ⓘ narrator ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Uncle Silas ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bartram-Haugh
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Knowl ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
imprisonment
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inheritance ⓘ patriarchal control ⓘ psychological terror ⓘ religious anxiety ⓘ suspense ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
curious
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impressionable ⓘ naive ⓘ pious ⓘ sensitive ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Sheridan Le Fanu ⓘ |
| experiences |
attempted murder
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confinement ⓘ gaslighting ⓘ isolation ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Uncle Silas (1864) ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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sensation novel ⓘ |
| hasGuardian | Uncle Silas ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Austin Ruthyn
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Uncle Silas ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
example of Gothic female narrator
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example of unreliable perception in Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| publicationContext |
19th-century Gothic fiction
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Victorian literature ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
victim-heroine
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witness to mystery ⓘ |
| shapes | atmosphere of Uncle Silas ⓘ |
| socialStatus | upper class ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | Uncle Silas ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Maud Ruthyn Description of subject: Maud Ruthyn is the young, impressionable heiress and narrator of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Gothic novel "Uncle Silas," whose perspective shapes the story’s atmosphere of suspense and psychological terror.
Referenced by (2)
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