Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth was a prominent Anglo-Irish novelist and pioneer of realistic children’s literature and regional Irish fiction in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maria Edgeworth canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1042624 — 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: Maria Edgeworth Context triple: [Richard Lovell Edgeworth, child, Maria Edgeworth]
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A.
Clara Reeve
Clara Reeve was an 18th-century English novelist best known for her Gothic novel "The Old English Baron," which helped shape the early Gothic fiction tradition.
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B.
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Richard Lovell Edgeworth was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish inventor, engineer, educational theorist, and writer known for his contributions to mechanical innovation and progressive education.
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C.
Frances Burney
Frances Burney was an influential 18th-century English novelist, diarist, and playwright best known for works like "Evelina" that helped shape the development of the English novel.
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D.
Lucinda Southworth
Lucinda Southworth is an American research scientist and philanthropist best known as the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
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E.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for her incisive social commentary and classic works such as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility."
- 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: Maria Edgeworth Target entity description: Maria Edgeworth was a prominent Anglo-Irish novelist and pioneer of realistic children’s literature and regional Irish fiction in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
Clara Reeve
Clara Reeve was an 18th-century English novelist best known for her Gothic novel "The Old English Baron," which helped shape the early Gothic fiction tradition.
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B.
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Richard Lovell Edgeworth was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish inventor, engineer, educational theorist, and writer known for his contributions to mechanical innovation and progressive education.
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C.
Frances Burney
Frances Burney was an influential 18th-century English novelist, diarist, and playwright best known for works like "Evelina" that helped shape the development of the English novel.
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D.
Lucinda Southworth
Lucinda Southworth is an American research scientist and philanthropist best known as the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
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E.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for her incisive social commentary and classic works such as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Irish writer
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children's writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Edgeworthstown
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surface form:
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
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| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1768-01-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1849-05-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Mrs. Devenish's school, London
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Mrs. Latta's school, Derby ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Anglo-Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | Edgeworth ⓘ |
| father | Richard Lovell Edgeworth ⓘ |
| fullName | Maria Edgeworth self-link ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
Irish fiction
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children's literature ⓘ didactic literature ⓘ regional fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria ⓘ |
| influenced |
Jane Austen
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Sir Walter Scott ⓘ
surface form:
Walter Scott
regional novel tradition ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Enlightenment philosophy
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
| mother | Anna Maria Elers ⓘ |
| movement |
Enlightenment literature
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Realism ⓘ Romantic-era literature ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
didactic approach to children's education
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realistic depiction of Irish landlord-tenant relations ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Belinda
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Castle Rackrent ⓘ Helen ⓘ Moral Tales for Young People ⓘ Ormond ⓘ Practical Education ⓘ The Absentee ⓘ |
| occupation |
children's writer
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educational writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Black Bourton
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surface form:
Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England
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| placeOfDeath |
Edgeworthstown
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surface form:
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
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| residence |
Edgeworthstown
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surface form:
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
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| sibling |
Honora Edgeworth
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Lovell Edgeworth ⓘ |
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: Maria Edgeworth Description of subject: Maria Edgeworth was a prominent Anglo-Irish novelist and pioneer of realistic children’s literature and regional Irish fiction in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.