Mrs. Macphail
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Mrs. Macphail is a character in W. Somerset Maugham’s short story "Rain," depicted as a conventional, middle-class woman whose perceptions help frame the moral and social tensions of the narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mrs. Macphail canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20035016 — 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: Mrs. Macphail Context triple: [Rain, featuresCharacter, Mrs. Macphail]
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A.
Mrs. Maclehose
Mrs. Maclehose is the married name of Agnes Maclehose, an 18th-century Scottish woman best known as the platonic love interest and correspondent of poet Robert Burns, who addressed her as "Clarinda" in his famous letters.
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B.
Mary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren was an American silent film actress known for her expressive performances in early 20th-century cinema.
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C.
Mrs. Dempster
Mrs. Dempster is a central fictional figure in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for her role in the story’s exploration of morality, religion, and social judgment in a provincial English town.
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D.
Margaret MacLachlan
Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
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E.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
- 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: Mrs. Macphail Target entity description: Mrs. Macphail is a character in W. Somerset Maugham’s short story "Rain," depicted as a conventional, middle-class woman whose perceptions help frame the moral and social tensions of the narrative.
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A.
Mrs. Maclehose
Mrs. Maclehose is the married name of Agnes Maclehose, an 18th-century Scottish woman best known as the platonic love interest and correspondent of poet Robert Burns, who addressed her as "Clarinda" in his famous letters.
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B.
Mary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren was an American silent film actress known for her expressive performances in early 20th-century cinema.
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C.
Mrs. Dempster
Mrs. Dempster is a central fictional figure in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for her role in the story’s exploration of morality, religion, and social judgment in a provincial English town.
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D.
Margaret MacLachlan
Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
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E.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
fictional character Sadie Thompson