Jean Batten
E197931
Jean Batten was a pioneering New Zealand aviator famed for her record-breaking solo long-distance flights in the 1930s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean Batten canonical | 1 |
| Jean Batten (biographies) | 1 |
| Jean Gardner Batten | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1730881 — 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: Jean Batten Context triple: [Harmon Trophy, notableRecipient, Jean Batten]
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A.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and author who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and disappeared mysteriously during an attempted around-the-world flight in 1937.
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B.
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran was a pioneering American aviator and record-setting test pilot who became one of the most prominent female figures in early aviation history.
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C.
Amelia
Amelia was a British princess of the early 18th century, the daughter of King George II and Queen Caroline of Ansbach.
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D.
Louise Arner Boyd
Louise Arner Boyd was an American explorer and photographer renowned for her pioneering Arctic expeditions in the early 20th century.
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E.
Florence Trenchard
Florence Trenchard is a central young English gentlewoman in the 1858 comic play "Our American Cousin," whose romantic storyline and social position help drive the play’s themes of class and transatlantic contrast.
- 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: Jean Batten Target entity description: Jean Batten was a pioneering New Zealand aviator famed for her record-breaking solo long-distance flights in the 1930s.
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A.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and author who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and disappeared mysteriously during an attempted around-the-world flight in 1937.
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B.
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran was a pioneering American aviator and record-setting test pilot who became one of the most prominent female figures in early aviation history.
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C.
Amelia
Amelia was a British princess of the early 18th century, the daughter of King George II and Queen Caroline of Ansbach.
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D.
Louise Arner Boyd
Louise Arner Boyd was an American explorer and photographer renowned for her pioneering Arctic expeditions in the early 20th century.
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E.
Florence Trenchard
Florence Trenchard is a central young English gentlewoman in the 1858 comic play "Our American Cousin," whose romantic storyline and social position help drive the play’s themes of class and transatlantic contrast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Zealander
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aviator ⓘ human ⓘ pioneer of aviation ⓘ |
| aircraftFlown |
de Havilland DH.88 Comet
ⓘ
linked to:
de Havilland DH.88 Comet racer
de Havilland Gipsy Moth ⓘ
linked to:
de Havilland DH.60 Moth
de Havilland Percival Gull Six ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Cross of Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour ⓘ
linked to:
Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor
Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medal
Harmon Trophy ⓘ Order of the Southern Cross ⓘ |
| burialPlace | unmarked grave in Palma de Mallorca ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of a dog bite ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Jean Batten International Terminal at Auckland Airport
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linked to:
Auckland Airport
Jean Batten Place in Auckland ⓘ statues and memorials in New Zealand ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | New Zealand ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Spain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1909-09-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-11-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St Cuthbert's College, Auckland ⓘ |
| era | 1930s aviation ⓘ |
| familyName | Batten ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | aviation ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jean Gardner Batten
ⓘ
linked to:
Jean Batten
|
| givenName | Jean ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Golden Age of Aviation ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first woman to make a solo flight from England to New Zealand
ⓘ
record-breaking solo long-distance flights in the 1930s ⓘ set world record for fastest flight from England to Australia in 1934 ⓘ set world record for fastest flight from England to Brazil in 1935 ⓘ set world record for fastest flight from England to New Zealand in 1936 ⓘ set world record for fastest return flight from Australia to England in 1935 ⓘ |
| notableFor | solo long-distance flights between Europe and Australasia ⓘ |
| notableWork | Alone in the Sky ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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aviator ⓘ |
| parent |
Ellen Batten
ⓘ
Frederick Batten ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rotorua ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palma de Mallorca ⓘ |
| residence |
Auckland
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London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Jean Batten (biographies)
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linked to:
Jean Batten
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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: Jean Batten Description of subject: Jean Batten was a pioneering New Zealand aviator famed for her record-breaking solo long-distance flights in the 1930s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jean Batten
linked to: Jean Batten