Lady Marian Alford
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Lady Marian Alford was a 19th-century British noblewoman, art patron, and influential promoter of needlework and the decorative arts.
All labels observed (1)
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| Lady Marian Alford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19536954 — 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: Lady Marian Alford Context triple: [Royal School of Needlework, foundedBy, Lady Marian Alford]
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A.
Mary Forth
Mary Forth was the first wife of John Winthrop, the future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of the English gentry in the early 17th century.
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B.
Maria Shireburn
Maria Shireburn was an English Catholic noblewoman and heiress of the Shireburn family, best known for her prominent position in Jacobite aristocratic circles in the early 18th century.
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C.
Mary Hastings
Mary Hastings was an English noblewoman of the 16th century, notable as a daughter of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, and a distant relative of the Tudor royal line.
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D.
Lady Eleanor Maitland
Lady Eleanor Maitland was a Scottish aristocrat of the Maitland family and the mother of politician and landowner James Maitland Balfour.
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E.
Mabel FitzRobert
Mabel FitzRobert was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman of the powerful de Clare–FitzRobert family, connected to the earldom of Gloucester.
- 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: Lady Marian Alford Target entity description: Lady Marian Alford was a 19th-century British noblewoman, art patron, and influential promoter of needlework and the decorative arts.
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A.
Mary Forth
Mary Forth was the first wife of John Winthrop, the future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of the English gentry in the early 17th century.
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B.
Maria Shireburn
Maria Shireburn was an English Catholic noblewoman and heiress of the Shireburn family, best known for her prominent position in Jacobite aristocratic circles in the early 18th century.
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C.
Mary Hastings
Mary Hastings was an English noblewoman of the 16th century, notable as a daughter of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, and a distant relative of the Tudor royal line.
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D.
Lady Eleanor Maitland
Lady Eleanor Maitland was a Scottish aristocrat of the Maitland family and the mother of politician and landowner James Maitland Balfour.
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E.
Mabel FitzRobert
Mabel FitzRobert was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman of the powerful de Clare–FitzRobert family, connected to the earldom of Gloucester.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.