Virginia Maria Clemm
E203692
Virginia Maria Clemm was the mother of Edgar Allan Poe’s wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, and a member of the extended Poe-Clemm family circle in early 19th-century America.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virginia Clemm | 3 |
| Eliza Poe | 1 |
| Virginia Maria Clemm canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1770647 — 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: Virginia Maria Clemm Context triple: [Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, stepSibling, Virginia Maria Clemm]
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A.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe was the young wife and first cousin of American writer Edgar Allan Poe, whose early death from tuberculosis deeply influenced his life and work.
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B.
Elizabeth Hunter Seward
Elizabeth Hunter Seward was the mother of English Romantic poet Anna Seward and a member of the 18th-century English literary and clerical milieu.
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C.
Lucy Waller
Lucy Waller is an alternate name for Lucy Parsons, a prominent American labor organizer, radical socialist, and anarchist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Mary Corinna Putnam
Mary Corinna Putnam was a pioneering American physician and medical researcher, recognized as one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and a leading advocate for women in medicine.
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E.
Madeline Usher
Madeline Usher is a mysterious and ethereal figure in Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic tale, symbolizing the physical and psychological decay haunting the Usher family.
- 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: Virginia Maria Clemm Target entity description: Virginia Maria Clemm was the mother of Edgar Allan Poe’s wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, and a member of the extended Poe-Clemm family circle in early 19th-century America.
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A.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe was the young wife and first cousin of American writer Edgar Allan Poe, whose early death from tuberculosis deeply influenced his life and work.
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B.
Elizabeth Hunter Seward
Elizabeth Hunter Seward was the mother of English Romantic poet Anna Seward and a member of the 18th-century English literary and clerical milieu.
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C.
Lucy Waller
Lucy Waller is an alternate name for Lucy Parsons, a prominent American labor organizer, radical socialist, and anarchist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Mary Corinna Putnam
Mary Corinna Putnam was a pioneering American physician and medical researcher, recognized as one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and a leading advocate for women in medicine.
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E.
Madeline Usher
Madeline Usher is a mysterious and ethereal figure in Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic tale, symbolizing the physical and psychological decay haunting the Usher family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| affiliation | extended Poe-Clemm family circle ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Clemm ⓘ |
| givenName | Virginia ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Poe-Clemm family
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linked to:
Poe family
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| motherOf | Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| relative |
Edgar Allan Poe
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Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Virginia Maria Clemm Description of subject: Virginia Maria Clemm was the mother of Edgar Allan Poe’s wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, and a member of the extended Poe-Clemm family circle in early 19th-century America.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Virginia Maria Clemm
linked to: Virginia Maria Clemm
linked to: Virginia Maria Clemm
subject linked to:
Edgar Allan Poe’s foster-son William Henry Leonard Poe (check)
linked to: Virginia Maria Clemm