Maud Bailey
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Maud Bailey is a fictional literary scholar and one of the central protagonists in A.S. Byatt’s novel "Possession," portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow in its 2002 film adaptation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maud Bailey canonical | 1 |
| Maud Bailey (within narrative) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3955610 — 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: Maud Bailey Context triple: [Possession (2002 film), mainCharacter, Maud Bailey]
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Gaud
Mary Elizabeth Gaud is known as the wife of William Gaud, a prominent American lawyer and World Bank official.
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B.
Emily Willans
Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
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C.
Maud Shaw
Maud Shaw is the protagonist of Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," embodying traditional values and modesty amid changing social norms.
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D.
Louise Treadwell
Louise Treadwell was an American actress and philanthropist best known as the longtime wife of actor Spencer Tracy and co-founder of the John Tracy Clinic for children with hearing impairments.
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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- 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: Maud Bailey Target entity description: Maud Bailey is a fictional literary scholar and one of the central protagonists in A.S. Byatt’s novel "Possession," portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow in its 2002 film adaptation.
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A.
Mary Elizabeth Gaud
Mary Elizabeth Gaud is known as the wife of William Gaud, a prominent American lawyer and World Bank official.
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B.
Emily Willans
Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
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C.
Maud Shaw
Maud Shaw is the protagonist of Louisa May Alcott’s novel "An Old-Fashioned Girl," embodying traditional values and modesty amid changing social norms.
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D.
Louise Treadwell
Louise Treadwell was an American actress and philanthropist best known as the longtime wife of actor Spencer Tracy and co-founder of the John Tracy Clinic for children with hearing impairments.
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E.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary scholar ⓘ |
| adaptationYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
film Possession (2002)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel Possession ⓘ |
| associatedWith | University setting ⓘ |
| characterArc |
breaking emotional isolation
ⓘ
emotional awakening ⓘ |
| coProtagonistWith | Roland Michell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | A. S. Byatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Possession ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Christabel LaMotte
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Victorian poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Possession: A Romance (1990 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasHairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film adaptation
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literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
ⓘ
poetry scholar ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
intellectual
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reserved ⓘ self-contained ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gwyneth Paltrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Christabel LaMotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeType | descendant of Christabel LaMotte ⓘ |
| researches |
Christabel LaMotte
NERFINISHED
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Randolph Henry Ash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Roland Michell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
academic research
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feminism ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
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: Maud Bailey Description of subject: Maud Bailey is a fictional literary scholar and one of the central protagonists in A.S. Byatt’s novel "Possession," portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow in its 2002 film adaptation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maud Bailey (within narrative)