Sophia Baines
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Sophia Baines is one of the central sisters in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose life story illustrates the quiet dramas and social changes of provincial English womanhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sophia Baines canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6898288 — 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: Sophia Baines Context triple: [The Old Wives’ Tale, mainCharacter, Sophia Baines]
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A.
Sophia Birchard
Sophia Birchard was the birth name of Sophia Birchard Hayes, known primarily as the wife of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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B.
Sophia Hull
Sophia Hull was the wife of British colonial administrator Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and is noted for her role in supporting his work and preserving his legacy.
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C.
Sophia Hitchens
Sophia Hitchens is the daughter of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
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D.
Sophia Jesty
Sophia Jesty is an American woman known for being one of the plaintiffs challenging Tennessee’s ban on same-sex marriage in the landmark case Tanco v. Haslam.
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E.
Sophia Williams
Sophia Williams is a fictional character in Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series, best known as the intelligent and steadfast wife of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey.
- 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: Sophia Baines Target entity description: Sophia Baines is one of the central sisters in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose life story illustrates the quiet dramas and social changes of provincial English womanhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Sophia Birchard
Sophia Birchard was the birth name of Sophia Birchard Hayes, known primarily as the wife of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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B.
Sophia Hull
Sophia Hull was the wife of British colonial administrator Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and is noted for her role in supporting his work and preserving his legacy.
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C.
Sophia Hitchens
Sophia Hitchens is the daughter of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
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D.
Sophia Jesty
Sophia Jesty is an American woman known for being one of the plaintiffs challenging Tennessee’s ban on same-sex marriage in the landmark case Tanco v. Haslam.
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E.
Sophia Williams
Sophia Williams is a fictional character in Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series, best known as the intelligent and steadfast wife of Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Sophia Scales ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
aging
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marriage ⓘ provincial English life ⓘ social change ⓘ womanhood ⓘ |
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
impulsive
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independent ⓘ proud ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arnold Bennett ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasMaidenName | Sophia Baines ⓘ |
| hasParent |
John Baines
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Mrs Baines ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Constance Baines ⓘ |
| isCentralCharacterIn | The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryWorkGenre | realist novel ⓘ |
| livedIn |
Bursley
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Paris ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Gérald Scales ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
shop assistant
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shopkeeper ⓘ |
| residesInFictionalPlace |
the Five Towns
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linked to:
Five Towns
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| setInPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
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: Sophia Baines Description of subject: Sophia Baines is one of the central sisters in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose life story illustrates the quiet dramas and social changes of provincial English womanhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.