Ida Olympe Agassiz
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Ida Olympe Agassiz was a 19th-century American social figure from the prominent Agassiz family, known for her marriage to Boston philanthropist and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Henry Lee Higginson.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ida Lewis Agassiz | 1 |
| Ida Olympe Agassiz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1855962 — 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: Ida Olympe Agassiz Context triple: [Henry Lee Higginson, spouse, Ida Olympe Agassiz]
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A.
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator and naturalist, co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, known for her influential role in advancing women's higher education in the 19th century.
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B.
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist, nature writer, and early bird conservationist known for pioneering popular bird guides and promoting birdwatching with binoculars instead of collecting specimens.
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C.
Julia Gorham Hayden
Julia Gorham Hayden was the wife of prominent American architect Henry Hobson Richardson and a member of Boston’s 19th-century social and cultural circles.
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D.
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz was a 19th-century Swiss-American naturalist and geologist known for his pioneering work on glaciation and influential but controversial views on biology and race.
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E.
Winifred Reed Landis
Winifred Reed Landis was the wife of longtime Major League Baseball commissioner and federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
- 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: Ida Olympe Agassiz Target entity description: Ida Olympe Agassiz was a 19th-century American social figure from the prominent Agassiz family, known for her marriage to Boston philanthropist and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Henry Lee Higginson.
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A.
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator and naturalist, co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, known for her influential role in advancing women's higher education in the 19th century.
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B.
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist, nature writer, and early bird conservationist known for pioneering popular bird guides and promoting birdwatching with binoculars instead of collecting specimens.
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C.
Julia Gorham Hayden
Julia Gorham Hayden was the wife of prominent American architect Henry Hobson Richardson and a member of Boston’s 19th-century social and cultural circles.
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D.
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz was a 19th-century Swiss-American naturalist and geologist known for his pioneering work on glaciation and influential but controversial views on biology and race.
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E.
Winifred Reed Landis
Winifred Reed Landis was the wife of longtime Major League Baseball commissioner and federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
socialite ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Boston Symphony Orchestra ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Agassiz ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ida ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Agassiz family ⓘ |
| middleName | Olympe ⓘ |
| notableFor |
marriage to Henry Lee Higginson
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role in 19th-century Boston society ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Boston ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
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| socialStatus | upper-class ⓘ |
| spouse | Henry Lee Higginson ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
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philanthropist ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Ida Olympe Agassiz Description of subject: Ida Olympe Agassiz was a 19th-century American social figure from the prominent Agassiz family, known for her marriage to Boston philanthropist and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Henry Lee Higginson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ida Olympe Agassiz