Alice B. Toklas
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Alice B. Toklas was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde best known as Gertrude Stein’s lifelong companion, literary muse, and the author of the influential "The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice B. Toklas canonical | 13 |
| Alice Babette Toklas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2128121 — 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: Alice B. Toklas Context triple: [Gertrude Stein, partner, Alice B. Toklas]
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Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach was an American-born bookseller and publisher in Paris best known for founding the Shakespeare and Company bookstore and first publishing James Joyce’s *Ulysses*.
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and art collector known for her experimental prose and for hosting an influential Paris salon that nurtured artists and authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.
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C.
Muriel McBrien Kauffman
Muriel McBrien Kauffman was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support for culture and the performing arts left a lasting legacy in Kansas City.
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D.
Satie Gossett
Satie Gossett is an American filmmaker and the son of Academy Award–winning actor Louis Gossett Jr.
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Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes was an American modernist writer, journalist, and artist best known for her avant-garde novel "Nightwood" and her central role in the bohemian literary circles of early 20th-century Paris.
- 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: Alice B. Toklas Target entity description: Alice B. Toklas was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde best known as Gertrude Stein’s lifelong companion, literary muse, and the author of the influential "The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book."
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A.
Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach was an American-born bookseller and publisher in Paris best known for founding the Shakespeare and Company bookstore and first publishing James Joyce’s *Ulysses*.
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B.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and art collector known for her experimental prose and for hosting an influential Paris salon that nurtured artists and authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.
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C.
Muriel McBrien Kauffman
Muriel McBrien Kauffman was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support for culture and the performing arts left a lasting legacy in Kansas City.
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D.
Satie Gossett
Satie Gossett is an American filmmaker and the son of Academy Award–winning actor Louis Gossett Jr.
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E.
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes was an American modernist writer, journalist, and artist best known for her avant-garde novel "Nightwood" and her central role in the bohemian literary circles of early 20th-century Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alice B. Toklas Description of subject: Alice B. Toklas was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde best known as Gertrude Stein’s lifelong companion, literary muse, and the author of the influential "The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alice B. Toklas