Mary Fitton
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Mary Fitton was an English gentlewoman and maid of honour at Queen Elizabeth I’s court who has been proposed by some scholars as a possible real-life inspiration for Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady” of the sonnets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Fitton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19981000 — 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: Mary Fitton Context triple: [Dark Lady, hasProposedRealIdentity, Mary Fitton]
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A.
Mary Glynne
Mary Glynne was a 19th-century British woman best known as the mother of senior British Army officer Sir Neville Lyttelton and a member of the prominent Glynne family.
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B.
Elizabeth Killigrew
Elizabeth Killigrew was a 17th-century English noblewoman and courtier associated with the Restoration court of Charles II.
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C.
Letitia Popham
Letitia Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century, known primarily as the wife of Sir Edward Seymour, a prominent politician and Speaker of the House of Commons.
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D.
Henrietta Boyle
Henrietta Boyle was an English noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the wife of statesman Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, and a member of the influential Boyle family.
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E.
Letitia Cropley
Letitia Cropley is an eccentric parishioner in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," best known for her bizarre and unappetizing culinary creations.
- 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: Mary Fitton Target entity description: Mary Fitton was an English gentlewoman and maid of honour at Queen Elizabeth I’s court who has been proposed by some scholars as a possible real-life inspiration for Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady” of the sonnets.
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A.
Mary Glynne
Mary Glynne was a 19th-century British woman best known as the mother of senior British Army officer Sir Neville Lyttelton and a member of the prominent Glynne family.
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B.
Elizabeth Killigrew
Elizabeth Killigrew was a 17th-century English noblewoman and courtier associated with the Restoration court of Charles II.
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C.
Letitia Popham
Letitia Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century, known primarily as the wife of Sir Edward Seymour, a prominent politician and Speaker of the House of Commons.
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D.
Henrietta Boyle
Henrietta Boyle was an English noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the wife of statesman Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, and a member of the influential Boyle family.
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E.
Letitia Cropley
Letitia Cropley is an eccentric parishioner in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," best known for her bizarre and unappetizing culinary creations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.