Agnes Syme
E281212
Agnes Syme was the wife of pioneering British surgeon and antiseptic surgery innovator Joseph Lister.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Agnes Syme canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2605196 — 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: Agnes Syme Context triple: [Joseph Lister, spouse, Agnes Syme]
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A.
Agnes Boulton
Agnes Boulton was an American writer best known as the second wife of playwright Eugene O’Neill and the mother of their daughter Oona O’Neill.
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B.
Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.
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C.
Agnes Ayres
Agnes Ayres was an American silent film actress best known for her leading role opposite Rudolph Valentino in the 1921 romantic drama "The Sheik."
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D.
Elizabeth Mure
Elizabeth Mure was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the first wife of King Robert II of Scotland and the mother of several children who founded key branches of the Stewart dynasty.
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E.
Agnes Carpenter
Agnes Carpenter was the wife of American film director and screenwriter Samuel Fuller.
- 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: Agnes Syme Target entity description: Agnes Syme was the wife of pioneering British surgeon and antiseptic surgery innovator Joseph Lister.
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A.
Agnes Boulton
Agnes Boulton was an American writer best known as the second wife of playwright Eugene O’Neill and the mother of their daughter Oona O’Neill.
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B.
Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.
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C.
Agnes Ayres
Agnes Ayres was an American silent film actress best known for her leading role opposite Rudolph Valentino in the 1921 romantic drama "The Sheik."
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D.
Elizabeth Mure
Elizabeth Mure was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the first wife of King Robert II of Scotland and the mother of several children who founded key branches of the Stewart dynasty.
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E.
Agnes Carpenter
Agnes Carpenter was the wife of American film director and screenwriter Samuel Fuller.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Joseph Lister ⓘ |
| spouse | Joseph Lister ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | British ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
pioneer of antiseptic surgery
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surgeon ⓘ |
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: Agnes Syme Description of subject: Agnes Syme was the wife of pioneering British surgeon and antiseptic surgery innovator Joseph Lister.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.