Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor
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Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor, is a wealthy, lonely Peruvian noblewoman whose obsessive love for her distant daughter makes her one of the most poignant figures in Thornton Wilder’s novel *The Bridge of San Luis Rey*.
All labels observed (1)
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| Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12109742 — 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: Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor Context triple: [The Bridge of San Luis Rey, notableCharacter, Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor]
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A.
Beatriz de Herrera
Beatriz de Herrera was the wife of Spanish conquistador Francisco de Montejo the Elder, associated with the early colonial nobility of Spain’s expansion into the Americas.
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B.
María de Solís
María de Solís was a 16th-century Spanish noblewoman known primarily as the wife of explorer and admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, founder of St. Augustine in Florida.
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C.
Luisa de Guzmán
Luisa de Guzmán was a Spanish-born noblewoman who became Queen Consort of Portugal and a key political figure in the Portuguese Restoration, as well as the mother of Catherine of Braganza.
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D.
Beatriz de Bobadilla
Beatriz de Bobadilla was a prominent 15th-century Castilian noblewoman and close confidante of Queen Isabella I, known for her political influence and role in the consolidation of the Spanish monarchy.
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E.
Tomasa de la Quintana
Tomasa de la Quintana was an Argentine woman of the early 19th century best known as the mother of Remedios de Escalada, the wife of independence leader General José de San Martín.
- 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: Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor Target entity description: Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor, is a wealthy, lonely Peruvian noblewoman whose obsessive love for her distant daughter makes her one of the most poignant figures in Thornton Wilder’s novel *The Bridge of San Luis Rey*.
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A.
Beatriz de Herrera
Beatriz de Herrera was the wife of Spanish conquistador Francisco de Montejo the Elder, associated with the early colonial nobility of Spain’s expansion into the Americas.
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B.
María de Solís
María de Solís was a 16th-century Spanish noblewoman known primarily as the wife of explorer and admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, founder of St. Augustine in Florida.
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C.
Luisa de Guzmán
Luisa de Guzmán was a Spanish-born noblewoman who became Queen Consort of Portugal and a key political figure in the Portuguese Restoration, as well as the mother of Catherine of Braganza.
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D.
Beatriz de Bobadilla
Beatriz de Bobadilla was a prominent 15th-century Castilian noblewoman and close confidante of Queen Isabella I, known for her political influence and role in the consolidation of the Spanish monarchy.
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E.
Tomasa de la Quintana
Tomasa de la Quintana was an Argentine woman of the early 19th century best known as the mother of Remedios de Escalada, the wife of independence leader General José de San Martín.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.