Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing
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Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing was the mother of U.S. Army General John J. Pershing, the famed commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1231870 — 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: Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing Context triple: [John J. Pershing, mother, Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing]
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A.
Mary Hoyt Sherman
Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
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B.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American suffragist and women’s rights activist, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who played a key role in revitalizing and modernizing the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
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C.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
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D.
Frances Witz Hull
Frances Witz Hull was the wife of longtime U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Cordell Hull.
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E.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
- 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: Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing Target entity description: Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing was the mother of U.S. Army General John J. Pershing, the famed commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
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A.
Mary Hoyt Sherman
Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
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B.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American suffragist and women’s rights activist, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who played a key role in revitalizing and modernizing the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
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C.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
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D.
Frances Witz Hull
Frances Witz Hull was the wife of longtime U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Cordell Hull.
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E.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| child | John J. Pershing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Pershing ⓘ |
| givenName |
Ann
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Elizabeth ⓘ |
| motherOf | John J. Pershing ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of General John J. Pershing ⓘ |
| relative | John J. Pershing ⓘ |
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: Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing Description of subject: Ann Elizabeth Thompson Pershing was the mother of U.S. Army General John J. Pershing, the famed commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.