Mildred
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Mildred is a feminine given name of English origin that became especially popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1073137 — 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: Mildred Context triple: [Mildred Dresselhaus, givenName, Mildred]
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A.
Lillian
Lillian is the given name of Lil Hardin Armstrong, a pioneering American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and second wife of Louis Armstrong.
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B.
Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris was an American silent film actress best known for her early Hollywood career and her brief marriage to Charlie Chaplin.
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C.
Doris
Doris is an Oceanid from Greek mythology, known as the wife of the sea god Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
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D.
Doris
Doris was the first wife of Herod the Great and the mother of his son Antipater in the Herodian royal family.
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E.
Lucille
"Lucille" is a 1977 country song by Kenny Rogers that became one of his signature hits and a classic of the genre.
- 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: Mildred Target entity description: Mildred is a feminine given name of English origin that became especially popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Lillian
Lillian is the given name of Lil Hardin Armstrong, a pioneering American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and second wife of Louis Armstrong.
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B.
Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris was an American silent film actress best known for her early Hollywood career and her brief marriage to Charlie Chaplin.
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C.
Doris
Doris is an Oceanid from Greek mythology, known as the wife of the sea god Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
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D.
Doris
Doris was the first wife of Herod the Great and the mother of his son Antipater in the Herodian royal family.
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E.
Lucille
"Lucille" is a 1977 country song by Kenny Rogers that became one of his signature hits and a classic of the genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | England ⓘ |
| category |
English feminine given names
ⓘ
feminine given names ⓘ |
| etymologicalLanguage | Old English ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasComponentMeaning |
mild (gentle)
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þryð (strength) ⓘ |
| hasNameDayTradition | Christian cultures ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Mildred Bailey
ⓘ
Mildred Dresselhaus ⓘ Mildred Hubble (fictional character) ⓘ Mildred Loving ⓘ Mildred Pierce (fictional character) ⓘ
linked to:
Mildred Pierce (character)
Saint Mildred of Thanet ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Midge
ⓘ
Millie ⓘ
linked to:
Milly
Milly ⓘ |
| hasUsage | English language ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm |
Mildreda
ⓘ
linked to:
Mildred
|
| historicalUsage |
Edwardian era
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Victorian era ⓘ |
| meaning | gentle strength ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| popularityPeakPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| usedAs | first name ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Mildred Description of subject: Mildred is a feminine given name of English origin that became especially popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mildred