Claire Merritt Hodgson
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Claire Merritt Hodgson was an American actress and model best known as the second wife of baseball legend Babe Ruth and a prominent figure in his later life and legacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Claire Merritt Hodgson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11383743 — 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: Claire Merritt Hodgson Context triple: [Babe Ruth, marriedTo, Claire Merritt Hodgson]
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A.
Helen Ferguson
Helen Ferguson was an American silent film actress prominent in the 1910s and 1920s who later became a successful Hollywood publicist.
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B.
Helen Ferguson
Helen Ferguson is a secondary character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms," serving as Catherine Barkley's protective friend and a skeptical observer of her relationship with Frederic Henry.
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C.
Janet Hodgson
Janet Hodgson is a central figure in the real-life Enfield poltergeist case, whose experiences as a young girl in a reportedly haunted London council house inspired the events depicted in The Conjuring 2.
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D.
Patricia Hodgson
Patricia Hodgson is a British media executive and regulator known for senior roles at the BBC and as chair of Ofcom.
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E.
Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Claire Merritt Hodgson Target entity description: Claire Merritt Hodgson was an American actress and model best known as the second wife of baseball legend Babe Ruth and a prominent figure in his later life and legacy.
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A.
Helen Ferguson
Helen Ferguson is a secondary character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms," serving as Catherine Barkley's protective friend and a skeptical observer of her relationship with Frederic Henry.
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B.
Helen Ferguson
Helen Ferguson was an American silent film actress prominent in the 1910s and 1920s who later became a successful Hollywood publicist.
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C.
Janet Hodgson
Janet Hodgson is a central figure in the real-life Enfield poltergeist case, whose experiences as a young girl in a reportedly haunted London council house inspired the events depicted in The Conjuring 2.
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D.
Patricia Hodgson
Patricia Hodgson is a British media executive and regulator known for senior roles at the BBC and as chair of Ofcom.
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E.
Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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human ⓘ model ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Major League Baseball culture
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New York Yankees history ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | Hodgson ⓘ |
| givenName | Claire ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widowed ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | American press coverage related to Babe Ruth ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a prominent figure in Babe Ruth's later life
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being the second wife of Babe Ruth ⓘ contributing to Babe Ruth's public image and legacy ⓘ helping manage Babe Ruth's social and public engagements ⓘ |
| notableRole | public companion of Babe Ruth in his retirement years ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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model ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
American entertainment industry
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American sports celebrity culture ⓘ |
| spouse | Babe Ruth ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | second wife of Babe Ruth ⓘ |
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: Claire Merritt Hodgson Description of subject: Claire Merritt Hodgson was an American actress and model best known as the second wife of baseball legend Babe Ruth and a prominent figure in his later life and legacy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.