Maxim de Winter
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Maxim de Winter is the brooding, aristocratic widower and master of the Manderley estate in Daphne du Maurier’s novel "Rebecca."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maxim de Winter canonical | 12 |
| Maxim de Winter (Rebecca, 1979 TV serial) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8157104 — 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: Maxim de Winter Context triple: [Manderley, ownedByFictional, Maxim de Winter]
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A.
Lord de Winter
Lord de Winter is a fictional English nobleman from Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" universe, known primarily as the estranged husband of the enigmatic spy Milady de Winter.
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B.
Nathaniel Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester was an American Revolutionary War officer, land speculator, and founder of the city of Rochester in New York.
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C.
Nathaniel Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester was an American computer scientist and IBM engineer best known for his pioneering work in early computer design and for co-organizing the seminal 1956 Dartmouth conference that launched the field of artificial intelligence.
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D.
Lady de Winter
Lady de Winter is a cunning and dangerous spy and assassin serving Cardinal Richelieu in Alexandre Dumas’ novel "The Three Musketeers."
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E.
Lady Clarick de Winter
Lady Clarick de Winter is an alternate identity or alias used by the character Charlotte Backson.
- 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: Maxim de Winter Target entity description: Maxim de Winter is the brooding, aristocratic widower and master of the Manderley estate in Daphne du Maurier’s novel "Rebecca."
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A.
Lord de Winter
Lord de Winter is a fictional English nobleman from Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" universe, known primarily as the estranged husband of the enigmatic spy Milady de Winter.
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B.
Nathaniel Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester was an American Revolutionary War officer, land speculator, and founder of the city of Rochester in New York.
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C.
Nathaniel Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester was an American computer scientist and IBM engineer best known for his pioneering work in early computer design and for co-organizing the seminal 1956 Dartmouth conference that launched the field of artificial intelligence.
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D.
Lady de Winter
Lady de Winter is a cunning and dangerous spy and assassin serving Cardinal Richelieu in Alexandre Dumas’ novel "The Three Musketeers."
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E.
Lady Clarick de Winter
Lady Clarick de Winter is an alternate identity or alias used by the character Charlotte Backson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English gentleman
ⓘ
aristocrat ⓘ fictional character ⓘ landowner ⓘ literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ widower ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
1940 film "Rebecca"
ⓘ
linked to:
Rebecca (1940 film)
2020 film "Rebecca" ⓘ
linked to:
Rebecca (2020 film)
|
| appearsIn |
novel "Rebecca"
ⓘ
linked to:
Rebecca (novel by Daphne du Maurier)
|
| associatedWith |
Cornwall
ⓘ
Mrs Danvers ⓘ
linked to:
Mrs. Danvers
|
| centralThemeRelation |
class
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ marriage ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| characterIn | Rebecca ⓘ |
| createdBy | Daphne du Maurier ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
"Rebecca" (1938)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rebecca (novel by Daphne du Maurier)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Maxim ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Beatrice Lacy ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
de Winter
ⓘ
linked to:
De Winter
|
| householdStaff |
Mrs Danvers
ⓘ
linked to:
Mrs. Danvers
|
| literaryGenre | Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | iconic Gothic hero ⓘ |
| marriedTo |
Rebecca de Winter
ⓘ
the second Mrs de Winter ⓘ
linked to:
the second Mrs. de Winter
|
| narrativePerspective | seen through the eyes of his second wife ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | husband of the narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | landowner ⓘ |
| owns |
Manderley estate
ⓘ
linked to:
Manderley (fictional estate)
|
| personalityTrait |
brooding
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proud ⓘ reserved ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Armie Hammer
ⓘ
Laurence Olivier ⓘ |
| residence |
Manderley
ⓘ
linked to:
Manderley (fictional estate)
|
| settingOfLife |
interwar England
ⓘ
linked to:
Interwar period
|
| sibling | Beatrice Lacy ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| spouse |
Rebecca de Winter
ⓘ
unnamed second wife ⓘ |
| themeEmbodiment |
decaying aristocracy
ⓘ
haunting past ⓘ |
| title | master of Manderley ⓘ |
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: Maxim de Winter Description of subject: Maxim de Winter is the brooding, aristocratic widower and master of the Manderley estate in Daphne du Maurier’s novel "Rebecca."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Manderley (fictional estate)
subject linked to:
Manderley (fictional estate)
subject linked to:
Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca (1979 television serial)
linked to: Maxim de Winter
subject linked to:
Rebecca (novel by Daphne du Maurier)
subject linked to:
Rebecca (musical) – composer