Michael Field (pen name of Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley)
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Michael Field was the shared pen name of Victorian-era poets and dramatists Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley, known for their collaborative works and their pioneering same-sex partnership in both life and literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Field (pen name of Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3524063 — 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.
Target entity: Michael Field (pen name of Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley) Context triple: [Field, hasNotableBearer, Michael Field (pen name of Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley)]
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A.
Edith Mary Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter was an English author best known for her historical murder mysteries, particularly the Brother Cadfael series written under the pen name Ellis Peters.
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B.
Mary Webb
Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
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C.
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.
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D.
Elinor Mead
Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
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E.
Elizabeth Hodgkin
Elizabeth Hodgkin is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning chemist and crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Michael Field (pen name of Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley) Target entity description: Michael Field was the shared pen name of Victorian-era poets and dramatists Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley, known for their collaborative works and their pioneering same-sex partnership in both life and literature.
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A.
Edith Mary Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter was an English author best known for her historical murder mysteries, particularly the Brother Cadfael series written under the pen name Ellis Peters.
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B.
Mary Webb
Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
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C.
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.
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D.
Elinor Mead
Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
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E.
Elizabeth Hodgkin
Elizabeth Hodgkin is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning chemist and crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Victorian writer
ⓘ
collective pseudonym ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| archivalMaterialAt |
Bodleian Library
ⓘ
surface form:
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
British Library ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British lesbian history
ⓘ
fin de siècle culture ⓘ |
| collaborativeRelationship | romantic partnership between Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Edith Cooper
ⓘ
Katherine Bradley ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Greek classical literature
ⓘ
Robert Browning ⓘ Walter Pater ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
verse drama ⓘ |
| movement |
Aestheticism
ⓘ
Decadentism ⓘ
surface form:
Decadent movement
Victorian literature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborative authorship
ⓘ
lesbian themes in literature ⓘ same-sex partnership ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Question of Memory
ⓘ
Callirrhoë and Fair Rosamund ⓘ Long Ago ⓘ Sight and Song ⓘ The Tragic Mary ⓘ Underneath the Bough ⓘ Whym Chow: Flame of Love ⓘ Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
surface form:
Works and Days
|
| placeOfActivity |
Bristol
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| pseudonymUsedFrom | 1880s ⓘ |
| pseudonymUsedUntil | 1910s ⓘ |
| realName |
Edith Cooper
ⓘ
Katherine Bradley ⓘ |
| recognizedPosthumouslyFor |
importance in queer literary history
ⓘ
innovative use of classical sources ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| usedFor | joint publications by Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Michael Field (pen name of Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley) Description of subject: Michael Field was the shared pen name of Victorian-era poets and dramatists Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley, known for their collaborative works and their pioneering same-sex partnership in both life and literature.
Referenced by (1)
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