Maud and Miska Petersham
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Maud and Miska Petersham were an influential American husband-and-wife illustration team known for their distinctive, pioneering work in children’s book illustration in the early 20th century.
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| Maud and Miska Petersham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14705876 — 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 and Miska Petersham Context triple: [Rootabaga Stories, illustrator, Maud and Miska Petersham]
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A.
Maud Nathan
Maud Nathan was an American social reformer and suffragist known for her leadership in the consumer and labor movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Lilyan Tashman
Lilyan Tashman was an American stage and film actress of the silent and early sound eras, known for her sophisticated, often vampish roles and stylish screen presence in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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C.
Helen Mosel
Helen Mosel, better known as Helen Wolff, was a notable German-American editor and publisher recognized for bringing important European literature to English-speaking audiences.
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D.
Margaret Albu
Margaret Albu was the wife of Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, who is best known for his pioneering work in the development of television.
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E.
Sylvia Obolensky
Sylvia Obolensky was an American-born socialite and member of the prominent Astor family who became known in European aristocratic circles through her marriages and society life.
- 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 and Miska Petersham Target entity description: Maud and Miska Petersham were an influential American husband-and-wife illustration team known for their distinctive, pioneering work in children’s book illustration in the early 20th century.
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A.
Maud Nathan
Maud Nathan was an American social reformer and suffragist known for her leadership in the consumer and labor movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Lilyan Tashman
Lilyan Tashman was an American stage and film actress of the silent and early sound eras, known for her sophisticated, often vampish roles and stylish screen presence in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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C.
Helen Mosel
Helen Mosel, better known as Helen Wolff, was a notable German-American editor and publisher recognized for bringing important European literature to English-speaking audiences.
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D.
Margaret Albu
Margaret Albu was the wife of Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, who is best known for his pioneering work in the development of television.
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E.
Sylvia Obolensky
Sylvia Obolensky was an American-born socialite and member of the prominent Astor family who became known in European aristocratic circles through her marriages and society life.
- F. None of above. chosen
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