Constance Baines
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Constance Baines is one of the central sisters in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose life story illustrates the quiet struggles and transformations of provincial English womanhood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Constance Baines canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6898287 — 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: Constance Baines Context triple: [The Old Wives’ Tale, mainCharacter, Constance Baines]
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A.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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B.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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C.
Constance McCashin
Constance McCashin is an American actress best known for her role as Laura Avery Sumner on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
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D.
Eunice Treat
Eunice Treat was the mother of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
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E.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
- 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: Constance Baines Target entity description: Constance Baines is one of the central sisters in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose life story illustrates the quiet struggles and transformations of provincial English womanhood.
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A.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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B.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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C.
Constance McCashin
Constance McCashin is an American actress best known for her role as Laura Avery Sumner on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
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D.
Eunice Treat
Eunice Treat was the mother of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
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E.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
conventional
ⓘ
dutiful ⓘ patient ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arnold Bennett ⓘ |
| familyName | Baines ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1908 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Constance ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Edwardian literature ⓘ |
| mother |
Mrs. Baines
ⓘ
linked to:
Mrs Baines
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| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | shopkeeper ⓘ |
| residence | Bursley ⓘ |
| setIn | Staffordshire Potteries ⓘ |
| sibling | Sophia Baines ⓘ |
| themeAssociatedWith |
aging
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domestic life ⓘ marriage ⓘ provincial English life ⓘ womanhood ⓘ |
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: Constance Baines Description of subject: Constance Baines is one of the central sisters in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose life story illustrates the quiet struggles and transformations of provincial English womanhood.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.