Marian Maudsley
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Marian Maudsley is a central figure in L.P. Hartley’s novel "The Go-Between," an upper-class young woman whose secret romantic entanglement drives the story’s themes of class, innocence, and betrayal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marian Maudsley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3321348 — 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: Marian Maudsley Context triple: [The Go-Between, mainCharacter, Marian Maudsley]
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A.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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B.
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most celebrated military commanders.
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C.
Madeleine Linscott
Madeleine Linscott is a central, enigmatic femme fatale figure in James Ellroy’s noir crime novel "The Black Dahlia," deeply entangled in the investigation of the infamous murder.
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D.
Magdalene Shaw
Magdalene Shaw is a sharp-witted, tough matriarch and career criminal in the Fast & Furious franchise, known as the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
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E.
Cecilia Tallis
Cecilia Tallis is a central character in Ian McEwan’s novel and its film adaptation "Atonement," an upper-class English woman whose doomed romance is shattered by a devastating false accusation.
- 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: Marian Maudsley Target entity description: Marian Maudsley is a central figure in L.P. Hartley’s novel "The Go-Between," an upper-class young woman whose secret romantic entanglement drives the story’s themes of class, innocence, and betrayal.
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A.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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B.
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most celebrated military commanders.
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C.
Madeleine Linscott
Madeleine Linscott is a central, enigmatic femme fatale figure in James Ellroy’s noir crime novel "The Black Dahlia," deeply entangled in the investigation of the infamous murder.
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D.
Magdalene Shaw
Magdalene Shaw is a sharp-witted, tough matriarch and career criminal in the Fast & Furious franchise, known as the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
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E.
Cecilia Tallis
Cecilia Tallis is a central character in Ian McEwan’s novel and its film adaptation "Atonement," an upper-class English woman whose doomed romance is shattered by a devastating false accusation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Go-Between ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
betrayal
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class ⓘ forbidden love ⓘ innocence ⓘ social conventions ⓘ |
| createdBy | L. P. Hartley ⓘ |
| drivesPlotElement |
Leo Colston’s loss of innocence
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use of secret letters ⓘ |
| engagedTo | Viscount Hugh Trimingham ⓘ |
| familyStatus | daughter of a wealthy family ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Go-Between ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
The Go-Between
ⓘ
surface form:
The Go-Between (1953 novel)
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRomanticRelationshipWith | Ted Burgess ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century British literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst for plot ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| relationshipToLeoColston |
employs him as messenger
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object of his admiration ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central character
ⓘ
love interest ⓘ |
| secret | conducts a clandestine affair with Ted Burgess ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Brandham Hall ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | Edwardian era ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| usesGoBetween | Leo Colston ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Marian Maudsley Description of subject: Marian Maudsley is a central figure in L.P. Hartley’s novel "The Go-Between," an upper-class young woman whose secret romantic entanglement drives the story’s themes of class, innocence, and betrayal.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.