Elise Stern
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Elise Stern was the wife of American businessman and former Levi Strauss & Co. president Walter A. Haas Sr., and a member of a prominent San Francisco Jewish philanthropic family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elise Stern canonical | 2 |
| Elise Stern Haas | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2225001 — 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: Elise Stern Context triple: [Walter A. Haas Sr., spouse, Elise Stern]
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A.
Elise Sellas
Elise Sellas is a free-spirited contemporary ballet dancer whose chance encounters with politician David Norris challenge the fate-controlling powers in the film "The Adjustment Bureau."
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B.
Elsa Löwenthal
Elsa Löwenthal, better known as Elsa Einstein, was the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein and often managed his personal and social affairs.
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C.
Jeanne Rosenberg
Jeanne Rosenberg is an American screenwriter best known for her work on the acclaimed 1979 film adaptation of "The Black Stallion" and other family-oriented adventure films.
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D.
Hermine Andermann
Hermine Andermann was the mother of Austrian-American mathematician Karl Menger.
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E.
Leila Gerstein
Leila Gerstein is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the comedy-drama series "Hart of Dixie."
- 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: Elise Stern Target entity description: Elise Stern was the wife of American businessman and former Levi Strauss & Co. president Walter A. Haas Sr., and a member of a prominent San Francisco Jewish philanthropic family.
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A.
Elise Sellas
Elise Sellas is a free-spirited contemporary ballet dancer whose chance encounters with politician David Norris challenge the fate-controlling powers in the film "The Adjustment Bureau."
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B.
Elsa Löwenthal
Elsa Löwenthal, better known as Elsa Einstein, was the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein and often managed his personal and social affairs.
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C.
Jeanne Rosenberg
Jeanne Rosenberg is an American screenwriter best known for her work on the acclaimed 1979 film adaptation of "The Black Stallion" and other family-oriented adventure films.
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D.
Hermine Andermann
Hermine Andermann was the mother of Austrian-American mathematician Karl Menger.
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E.
Leila Gerstein
Leila Gerstein is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the comedy-drama series "Hart of Dixie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
company ⓘ human ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| memberOf |
San Francisco Jewish philanthropic community
ⓘ
linked to:
Jewish community of San Francisco
Stern family ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Walter A. Haas Sr. ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Levi Strauss & Co. ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elise Stern
ⓘ
Walter A. Haas Sr. ⓘ |
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: Elise Stern Description of subject: Elise Stern was the wife of American businessman and former Levi Strauss & Co. president Walter A. Haas Sr., and a member of a prominent San Francisco Jewish philanthropic family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.