Ederle
E187884
Ederle is the surname of Gertrude Ederle, the American competitive swimmer famed for being the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ederle canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657963 — 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: Ederle Context triple: [Gertrude Ederle, familyName, Ederle]
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A.
Cariane
Cariane was a French public transport operator that managed bus and coach services before being succeeded by Keolis.
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B.
Hauke
Hauke is a Germanic given name, particularly common in Northern Germany, that is cognate with the English name Hugh.
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C.
Heinsohn
Heinsohn is a surname most prominently associated with Tom Heinsohn, a Hall of Fame Boston Celtics player, coach, and broadcaster.
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D.
Balbo
Balbo is an Italian surname most famously associated with Italo Balbo, a prominent Fascist leader and pioneering aviator in early 20th-century Italy.
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E.
Djanira
Djanira was a prominent Brazilian modernist painter known for her vivid depictions of everyday life, religious themes, and popular culture.
- 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: Ederle Target entity description: Ederle is the surname of Gertrude Ederle, the American competitive swimmer famed for being the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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A.
Cariane
Cariane was a French public transport operator that managed bus and coach services before being succeeded by Keolis.
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B.
Hauke
Hauke is a Germanic given name, particularly common in Northern Germany, that is cognate with the English name Hugh.
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C.
Heinsohn
Heinsohn is a surname most prominently associated with Tom Heinsohn, a Hall of Fame Boston Celtics player, coach, and broadcaster.
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D.
Balbo
Balbo is an Italian surname most famously associated with Italo Balbo, a prominent Fascist leader and pioneering aviator in early 20th-century Italy.
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E.
Djanira
Djanira was a prominent Brazilian modernist painter known for her vivid depictions of everyday life, religious themes, and popular culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic swimmer
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competitive swimmer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| eventSpecialty | freestyle swimming ⓘ |
| familyName | Ederle ⓘ |
| givenName | Gertrude ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Ederle ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nameType | last name ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | swam across the English Channel ⓘ |
| notableFor | first woman to swim across the English Channel ⓘ |
| occupation | swimmer ⓘ |
| OlympicMedal |
bronze medal
ⓘ
gold medal ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1924 Summer Olympics
ⓘ
linked to:
Summer Olympics 1924
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| recordHeld | fastest English Channel swim time at the time of her crossing ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sport | swimming ⓘ |
| usedBy | Gertrude Ederle ⓘ |
| 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: Ederle Description of subject: Ederle is the surname of Gertrude Ederle, the American competitive swimmer famed for being the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.