Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger
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Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger was the wife of American historian and public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T941185 — 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: Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger Context triple: [Arthur Schlesinger Jr., spouse, Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger]
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A.
Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger
Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger was an American civic leader and advocate for women’s history whose legacy is honored through the naming of Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.
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B.
Marian Cannon Schlesinger
Marian Cannon Schlesinger was an American artist, illustrator, and memoirist known for her portraits, political cartoons, and vivid recollections of intellectual life in 20th-century Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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C.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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D.
Ruth Livingston Mills
Ruth Livingston Mills was a prominent American socialite and heiress of the Gilded Age, known for her influential role in New York high society and her association with the wealthy Livingston and Mills families.
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E.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
- 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: Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger Target entity description: Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger was the wife of American historian and public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
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A.
Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger
Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger was an American civic leader and advocate for women’s history whose legacy is honored through the naming of Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.
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B.
Marian Cannon Schlesinger
Marian Cannon Schlesinger was an American artist, illustrator, and memoirist known for her portraits, political cartoons, and vivid recollections of intellectual life in 20th-century Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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C.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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D.
Ruth Livingston Mills
Ruth Livingston Mills was a prominent American socialite and heiress of the Gilded Age, known for her influential role in New York high society and her association with the wealthy Livingston and Mills families.
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E.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
historian
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human ⓘ human ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger Description of subject: Alexandra Emmet Schlesinger was the wife of American historian and public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.