Jean Webster
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Jean Webster was an American author and playwright best known for her 1912 epistolary novel "Daddy-Long-Legs," a classic of early 20th-century children's and young adult literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Webster canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008142 — 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 Webster Context triple: [Daddy Long Legs (1955 film), basedOnAuthor, Jean Webster]
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A.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright best known for her classic children's books "The Secret Garden," "A Little Princess," and "Little Lord Fauntleroy."
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B.
Frances Appleton
Frances Appleton was the second wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, remembered as his muse and a member of the prominent Boston Appleton family.
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C.
Alice Terry
Alice Terry was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles in epic dramas of the 1920s, particularly in collaborations with director Rex Ingram.
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D.
Sarah Orne
Sarah Orne was the second wife of American patriot Paul Revere, with whom he had a large family in late 18th-century Boston.
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E.
Mary Webb
Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
- 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 Webster Target entity description: Jean Webster was an American author and playwright best known for her 1912 epistolary novel "Daddy-Long-Legs," a classic of early 20th-century children's and young adult literature.
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A.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright best known for her classic children's books "The Secret Garden," "A Little Princess," and "Little Lord Fauntleroy."
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B.
Frances Appleton
Frances Appleton was the second wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, remembered as his muse and a member of the prominent Boston Appleton family.
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C.
Alice Terry
Alice Terry was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles in epic dramas of the 1920s, particularly in collaborations with director Rex Ingram.
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D.
Sarah Orne
Sarah Orne was the second wife of American patriot Paul Revere, with whom he had a large family in late 18th-century Boston.
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E.
Mary Webb
Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 Webster Description of subject: Jean Webster was an American author and playwright best known for her 1912 epistolary novel "Daddy-Long-Legs," a classic of early 20th-century children's and young adult literature.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.