Trudy
E202978
Trudy is the nickname of Gertrude Ederle, the American competitive swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trudy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657999 — 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: Trudy Context triple: [Gertrude Ederle, nickname, Trudy]
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A.
Leatrice Joy
Leatrice Joy was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1920s known for her expressive performances and distinctive bobbed hairstyle.
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B.
Evelyn
Evelyn is a given name shared by G. Evelyn Hutchinson, a prominent 20th-century British-born American ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology."
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C.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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D.
Suzanne
"Suzanne" is a renowned song by Leonard Cohen, celebrated for its poetic lyrics and haunting melody.
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E.
Valerie
"Valerie" is a 1957 American Western film starring Sterling Hayden, loosely inspired by the Rashomon-style multiple-perspective narrative.
- 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: Trudy Target entity description: Trudy is the nickname of Gertrude Ederle, the American competitive swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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A.
Leatrice Joy
Leatrice Joy was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1920s known for her expressive performances and distinctive bobbed hairstyle.
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B.
Evelyn
Evelyn is a given name shared by G. Evelyn Hutchinson, a prominent 20th-century British-born American ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology."
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C.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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D.
Suzanne
"Suzanne" is a renowned song by Leonard Cohen, celebrated for its poetic lyrics and haunting melody.
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E.
Valerie
"Valerie" is a 1957 American Western film starring Sterling Hayden, loosely inspired by the Rashomon-style multiple-perspective narrative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic swimmer
ⓘ
competitive swimmer ⓘ human ⓘ nickname ⓘ |
| causeOfDisability | hearing loss ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1905-10-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-11-30 ⓘ |
| EnglishChannelBodyOfWater | English Channel ⓘ |
| EnglishChannelCrossingDate | 1926-08-06 ⓘ |
| EnglishChannelRoute | France to England ⓘ |
| EnglishChannelSwimRecord | fastest crossing at the time ⓘ |
| EnglishChannelSwimTime | 14 hours 31 minutes ⓘ |
| event |
100 metre freestyle
ⓘ
400 metre freestyle ⓘ 4×100 metre freestyle relay ⓘ |
| givenName | Gertrude ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Gertrude Anna Ederle’s parents of German descent
ⓘ
Henry Ederle ⓘ
linked to:
Gertrude Ederle
|
| heritage | German-American ⓘ |
| honor |
induction into International Swimming Hall of Fame
ⓘ
induction into National Women’s Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| influenced |
long-distance open-water swimming
ⓘ
women’s sports participation ⓘ |
| knownAs | Queen of the Waves ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Women’s Swimming Association of New York ⓘ |
| nickname | Trudy ⓘ |
| nicknameOf | Gertrude Ederle ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | pioneering women’s long-distance swimming ⓘ |
| notableFor | first woman to swim across the English Channel ⓘ |
| notableWork | autobiographical accounts of her swimming career ⓘ |
| numberOfWorldRecordsSet | multiple ⓘ |
| occupation | swimmer ⓘ |
| OlympicGames |
1924 Summer Olympics
ⓘ
linked to:
Summer Olympics 1924
|
| OlympicMedal |
bronze medal
ⓘ
gold medal ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Wyckoff, New Jersey ⓘ |
| recordHeld | first woman to swim across the English Channel ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| setWorldRecordsIn | freestyle swimming ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sport | swimming ⓘ |
| strokeSpecialty | freestyle ⓘ |
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: Trudy Description of subject: Trudy is the nickname of Gertrude Ederle, the American competitive swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.