Linda Lee Thomas
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Linda Lee Thomas was an American socialite and wealthy heiress best known as the elegant and influential wife and muse of composer Cole Porter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linda Lee Thomas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005645 — 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: Linda Lee Thomas Context triple: [Cole Porter, spouse, Linda Lee Thomas]
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A.
Janet Norton Lee
Janet Norton Lee was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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D.
Florence Lee
Florence Lee was an early 20th-century film actress best known for her supporting roles in silent comedies, including work with Charlie Chaplin.
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E.
Valerie June Bowman
Valerie June Bowman, better known as Valerie Jarrett, is an American lawyer, businesswoman, and former senior advisor to President Barack Obama.
- 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: Linda Lee Thomas Target entity description: Linda Lee Thomas was an American socialite and wealthy heiress best known as the elegant and influential wife and muse of composer Cole Porter.
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A.
Janet Norton Lee
Janet Norton Lee was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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D.
Florence Lee
Florence Lee was an early 20th-century film actress best known for her supporting roles in silent comedies, including work with Charlie Chaplin.
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E.
Valerie June Bowman
Valerie June Bowman, better known as Valerie Jarrett, is an American lawyer, businesswoman, and former senior advisor to President Barack Obama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heiress
ⓘ
human ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American high society
ⓘ
Cole Porter’s artistic circle ⓘ European social circles ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1883-11-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Louisville, Kentucky
|
| burialPlace | Mount Hope Cemetery, Peru, Indiana, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | emphysema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1954-05-20 ⓘ |
| divorceDate | 1912 ⓘ |
| divorcePartner | Edward R. Thomas ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Thomas ⓘ |
| father | William Paca Lee ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | social and cultural patronage ⓘ |
| givenName | Linda ⓘ |
| hasNoChildren | true ⓘ |
| influenced | the work and social milieu of Cole Porter ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a muse for Cole Porter
ⓘ
elegant lifestyle and prominent role in high society ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedDuring |
Gilded Age
ⓘ
Jazz Age ⓘ
linked to:
Roaring Twenties
|
| marriagePartner |
Cole Porter
ⓘ
Edward R. Thomas ⓘ |
| marriageStart |
1901-02-06
ⓘ
1919-12-18 ⓘ |
| mother | Lily Lee ⓘ |
| name | Linda Lee Thomas ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
fashionable and elegant appearance
ⓘ
wealthy heiress ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
divorce from Edward R. Thomas in 1912
ⓘ
marriage to Cole Porter in Paris in 1919 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of composer Cole Porter ⓘ |
| notableResidence |
Palazzo on the Grand Canal, Venice
ⓘ
linked to:
Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi
Ritz Hotel, Paris ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
Paris, France ⓘ
linked to:
Paris
Venice, Italy ⓘ
linked to:
Venice
|
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cole Porter
ⓘ
Edward R. Thomas ⓘ |
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: Linda Lee Thomas Description of subject: Linda Lee Thomas was an American socialite and wealthy heiress best known as the elegant and influential wife and muse of composer Cole Porter.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.