Lady Arabella Gresham
E107004
Lady Arabella Gresham is a proud, socially ambitious aristocrat in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, best known for her snobbery and determination to secure advantageous marriages for her children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lady Arabella Gresham canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T901769 — 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: Lady Arabella Gresham Context triple: [Doctor Thorne, mainCharacter, Lady Arabella Gresham]
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A.
Hester Collyer
Hester Collyer is the emotionally tormented protagonist of Terence Rattigan’s play "The Deep Blue Sea," whose passionate but destructive love affair drives the story’s exploration of desire, despair, and postwar British society.
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B.
Mary Allerton
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger who arrived in 1620 as a child and later became one of the longest-lived survivors of the original Plymouth colonists.
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C.
Elizabeth Popham
Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
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D.
Martha Rainsborough
Martha Rainsborough was the wife of early Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop and a member of the prominent Rainsborough family in 17th-century England.
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E.
Eleanor Black
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- 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: Lady Arabella Gresham Target entity description: Lady Arabella Gresham is a proud, socially ambitious aristocrat in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, best known for her snobbery and determination to secure advantageous marriages for her children.
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A.
Hester Collyer
Hester Collyer is the emotionally tormented protagonist of Terence Rattigan’s play "The Deep Blue Sea," whose passionate but destructive love affair drives the story’s exploration of desire, despair, and postwar British society.
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B.
Mary Allerton
Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger who arrived in 1620 as a child and later became one of the longest-lived survivors of the original Plymouth colonists.
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C.
Elizabeth Popham
Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
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D.
Martha Rainsborough
Martha Rainsborough was the wife of early Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop and a member of the prominent Rainsborough family in 17th-century England.
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E.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aristocrat
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character in a novel ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Doctor Thorne
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Framley Parsonage ⓘ The Last Chronicle of Barset ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Chronicles of Barsetshire ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
aristocratic decline
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class snobbery ⓘ marriage and social status ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
proud
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snobbish ⓘ socially ambitious ⓘ |
| concern |
family finances
ⓘ
preservation of social rank ⓘ |
| createdBy | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| createdInYear | 1858 ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Barsetshire ⓘ |
| firstAppearsIn | Doctor Thorne ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Augusta Gresham
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Beatrice Gresham ⓘ Frank Gresham ⓘ other Gresham children ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Mr Gresham ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Lady ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| memberOfFamily |
The Gresham family
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surface form:
Gresham family
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| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| opposesMarriageOf | Frank Gresham and Mary Thorne ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation |
to maintain aristocratic status
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to secure advantageous marriages for her children ⓘ |
| reasonForOpposition |
Mary Thorne’s lack of fortune
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Mary Thorne’s lower social standing ⓘ |
| relatedWorkAuthor | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| residesIn |
Barsetshire
ⓘ
Greshamsbury ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
antagonist to Mary Thorne’s marriage prospects
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representative of rigid class prejudice ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | 19th-century rural England ⓘ |
| socialClass | English aristocracy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Lady Arabella Gresham Description of subject: Lady Arabella Gresham is a proud, socially ambitious aristocrat in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, best known for her snobbery and determination to secure advantageous marriages for her children.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.