Edna Thompson
E279214
Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edna Thompson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070268 — 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: Edna Thompson Context triple: [Duke Ellington, spouse, Edna Thompson]
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A.
Edna Young
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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B.
Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson was the mother of British Army officer General James Wolfe, famed for his victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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D.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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E.
Thelma Connell
Thelma Connell was a British film editor known for her work on numerous mid-20th-century films.
- 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: Edna Thompson Target entity description: Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
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A.
Edna Young
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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B.
Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson was the mother of British Army officer General James Wolfe, famed for his victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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D.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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E.
Thelma Connell
Thelma Connell was a British film editor known for her work on numerous mid-20th-century films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Duke Ellington ⓘ |
| spouse | Duke Ellington ⓘ |
| spouseOfNationality | American ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
jazz composer ⓘ |
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: Edna Thompson Description of subject: Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.