Maxine Tarnow
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Maxine Tarnow is the sharp, skeptical fraud investigator protagonist of Thomas Pynchon's novel "Bleeding Edge," navigating the murky intersections of tech, finance, and post-9/11 New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maxine Tarnow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2903145 — 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: Maxine Tarnow Context triple: [Bleeding Edge, mainCharacter, Maxine Tarnow]
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A.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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B.
Dorothy Herzka
Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
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C.
Dinah Manoff
Dinah Manoff is an American actress and director best known for her roles in the film "Grease" and the TV series "Empty Nest."
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D.
Mollie Steimer
Mollie Steimer was a Russian-born Jewish anarchist and political activist in the United States, known for her anti-war agitation, prosecution under the Espionage Act, and eventual deportation for her radical beliefs.
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E.
Kate Wollman
Kate Wollman was a philanthropist whose donation funded the construction of the famous Wollman Rink in New York City's Central Park.
- 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: Maxine Tarnow Target entity description: Maxine Tarnow is the sharp, skeptical fraud investigator protagonist of Thomas Pynchon's novel "Bleeding Edge," navigating the murky intersections of tech, finance, and post-9/11 New York.
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A.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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B.
Dorothy Herzka
Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
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C.
Dinah Manoff
Dinah Manoff is an American actress and director best known for her roles in the film "Grease" and the TV series "Empty Nest."
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D.
Mollie Steimer
Mollie Steimer was a Russian-born Jewish anarchist and political activist in the United States, known for her anti-war agitation, prosecution under the Espionage Act, and eventual deportation for her radical beliefs.
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E.
Kate Wollman
Kate Wollman was a philanthropist whose donation funded the construction of the famous Wollman Rink in New York City's Central Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Bleeding Edge ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Thomas Pynchon ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext |
cyber-noir
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detective fiction ⓘ postmodern fiction ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole | mother ⓘ |
| hasMaritalStatus | separated ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
cynical
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sharp ⓘ skeptical ⓘ wry ⓘ |
| investigates |
corporate corruption
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financial fraud ⓘ shady tech startups ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
dot-com bust aftermath
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finance ⓘ surveillance culture ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| narrativeSettingPeriod | post-9/11 era ⓘ |
| narrativeSettingYearApprox | early 2000s ⓘ |
| occupation |
former certified fraud examiner
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fraud investigator ⓘ |
| residesIn | New York City ⓘ |
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: Maxine Tarnow Description of subject: Maxine Tarnow is the sharp, skeptical fraud investigator protagonist of Thomas Pynchon's novel "Bleeding Edge," navigating the murky intersections of tech, finance, and post-9/11 New York.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.