Maria Gansevoort Melvill

Target entity: Maria Gansevoort Melvill
Context triple: [Herman Melville, mother, Maria Gansevoort Melvill]

• A. Isabella Brant
  Isabella Brant was the first wife and frequent muse of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, known from several of his celebrated portraits.
• B. Ann Eliza Birney Russell
  Ann Eliza Birney Russell was the mother of Charles Taze Russell, the American religious leader who founded what became the Bible Student movement and influenced Jehovah’s Witnesses.
• C. William Irving
  William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
• D. Mary Jane Ward
  Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
• E. Muriel Whiting
  Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Maria Gansevoort Melvill
Target entity description: Maria Gansevoort Melvill was an American woman from a prominent Dutch-descended New York family, best known as the mother of novelist Herman Melville.

• A. Isabella Brant
  Isabella Brant was the first wife and frequent muse of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, known from several of his celebrated portraits.
• B. Ann Eliza Birney Russell
  Ann Eliza Birney Russell was the mother of Charles Taze Russell, the American religious leader who founded what became the Bible Student movement and influenced Jehovah’s Witnesses.
• C. William Irving
  William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
• D. Mary Jane Ward
  Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
• E. Muriel Whiting
  Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
• F. None of above. chosen