Edith Myers
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Edith Myers is the grandmother of the American mathematician John Tate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edith Myers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2352068 — 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: Edith Myers Context triple: [John Tate, grandmother, Edith Myers]
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A.
Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott was an influential American social worker, economist, and educator who helped pioneer professional social work education and served as dean of the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration.
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B.
Ruth Bryan Owen
Ruth Bryan Owen was an American politician and diplomat who became the first woman elected to Congress from Florida and later served as U.S. minister to Denmark.
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C.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American suffragist and women’s rights activist, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who played a key role in revitalizing and modernizing the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
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D.
Nora Stanton Blatch
Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
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E.
Edith Maude Hull
Edith Maude Hull was a British novelist best known for her popular early 20th-century desert romance "The Sheik," which became a cultural phenomenon and inspired a famous film adaptation.
- 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: Edith Myers Target entity description: Edith Myers is the grandmother of the American mathematician John Tate.
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A.
Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott was an influential American social worker, economist, and educator who helped pioneer professional social work education and served as dean of the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration.
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B.
Ruth Bryan Owen
Ruth Bryan Owen was an American politician and diplomat who became the first woman elected to Congress from Florida and later served as U.S. minister to Denmark.
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C.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American suffragist and women’s rights activist, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who played a key role in revitalizing and modernizing the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
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D.
Nora Stanton Blatch
Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
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E.
Edith Maude Hull
Edith Maude Hull was a British novelist best known for her popular early 20th-century desert romance "The Sheik," which became a cultural phenomenon and inspired a famous film adaptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| grandchildOf | Edith Myers ⓘ |
| grandparentOf | John Tate ⓘ |
| notableRelative | John Tate ⓘ |
| occupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Edith Myers Description of subject: Edith Myers is the grandmother of the American mathematician John Tate.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John Tate in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
subject linked to:
Edith Myers