Maida Walker
E622408
Maida Walker is a character from the 1939 romantic drama film "In Name Only," which stars Cary Grant and Carole Lombard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maida Walker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6812903 — 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: Maida Walker Context triple: [In Name Only, featuresCharacter, Maida Walker]
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A.
Frances Ellen Burr
Frances Ellen Burr was a 19th-century American journalist and prominent suffragist who advocated for women's rights and social reform.
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B.
Elizabeth Grimké
Elizabeth Grimké was a member of the prominent Grimké family of South Carolina, known historically through her marriage into the influential Rutledge political dynasty.
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C.
Laura Waters Giddings
Laura Waters Giddings was the wife of prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and politician Joshua R. Giddings.
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D.
Willa Brown
Willa Brown was a pioneering African American aviator, flight instructor, and civil rights advocate who became the first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot’s license and a commercial pilot’s license.
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E.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist and women’s rights advocate best known for her powerful “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech and her tireless activism for racial and gender equality.
- 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: Maida Walker Target entity description: Maida Walker is a character from the 1939 romantic drama film "In Name Only," which stars Cary Grant and Carole Lombard.
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A.
Frances Ellen Burr
Frances Ellen Burr was a 19th-century American journalist and prominent suffragist who advocated for women's rights and social reform.
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B.
Elizabeth Grimké
Elizabeth Grimké was a member of the prominent Grimké family of South Carolina, known historically through her marriage into the influential Rutledge political dynasty.
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C.
Laura Waters Giddings
Laura Waters Giddings was the wife of prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and politician Joshua R. Giddings.
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D.
Willa Brown
Willa Brown was a pioneering African American aviator, flight instructor, and civil rights advocate who became the first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot’s license and a commercial pilot’s license.
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E.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist and women’s rights advocate best known for her powerful “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech and her tireless activism for racial and gender equality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Norman Krasna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | In Name Only NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
manipulative
ⓘ
materialistic ⓘ socially ambitious ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Alec Walker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Julie Eden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | R. P. J. Hartley (story "Memory of Love") NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | romantic drama film ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Mr. Nancy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mrs. Edith Nancy NERFINISHED ⓘ Suzanne Kirtley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (to Alec Walker) ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | antagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| partOf | In Name Only (1939 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotFunction | obstacle to Alec Walker and Julie Eden's relationship ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kay Francis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipTo | romantic rival of Julie Eden ⓘ |
| setIn | New York (implied setting in film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Alec Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1939 ⓘ |
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: Maida Walker Description of subject: Maida Walker is a character from the 1939 romantic drama film "In Name Only," which stars Cary Grant and Carole Lombard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.