Clara Pitt Durant
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Clara Pitt Durant was the wife of automotive pioneer William C. Durant and a member of the prominent Durant family associated with the early American automobile industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clara Pitt Durant canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T400066 — 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: Clara Pitt Durant Context triple: [William C. Durant, spouse, Clara Pitt Durant]
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A.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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B.
Catharine Clinton Howland
Catharine Clinton Howland was the wife of prominent American architect Richard Morris Hunt and a member of the influential Howland family of New York.
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C.
Margaret Carnegie Miller
Margaret Carnegie Miller was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, known primarily for her role as heir to his fortune and for her own philanthropic activities.
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D.
Susan Packard Orr
Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and former technology executive known for her leadership roles in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and on the board of Hewlett-Packard.
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E.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
- 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: Clara Pitt Durant Target entity description: Clara Pitt Durant was the wife of automotive pioneer William C. Durant and a member of the prominent Durant family associated with the early American automobile industry.
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A.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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B.
Catharine Clinton Howland
Catharine Clinton Howland was the wife of prominent American architect Richard Morris Hunt and a member of the influential Howland family of New York.
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C.
Margaret Carnegie Miller
Margaret Carnegie Miller was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, known primarily for her role as heir to his fortune and for her own philanthropic activities.
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D.
Susan Packard Orr
Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and former technology executive known for her leadership roles in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and on the board of Hewlett-Packard.
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E.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Durant Motors (through family connection)
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General Motors (through family connection) ⓘ
linked to:
General Motors
William C. Durant ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Durant ⓘ |
| givenName | Clara ⓘ |
| industryConnection | automotive industry (through family) ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (to William C. Durant) ⓘ |
| memberOf | Durant family ⓘ |
| name | Clara Pitt Durant ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Durant family in American automobile history ⓘ |
| notableFor | association with early American automobile industry ⓘ |
| relative | William C. Durant ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of prominent industrial family ⓘ |
| spouse | William C. Durant ⓘ |
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: Clara Pitt Durant Description of subject: Clara Pitt Durant was the wife of automotive pioneer William C. Durant and a member of the prominent Durant family associated with the early American automobile industry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.