Olive Augusta Fenno Alger
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Olive Augusta Fenno Alger was the mother of American author Horatio Alger Jr., known for his influential 19th-century rags-to-riches novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Olive Augusta Fenno Alger canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2867556 — 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: Olive Augusta Fenno Alger Context triple: [Horatio Alger Jr., mother, Olive Augusta Fenno Alger]
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A.
Elizabeth Palmer
Elizabeth Palmer was the daughter of American painter and writer Sophia Peabody, who was married to the famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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B.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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C.
Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud
Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud was the mother of U.S. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and the maternal grandmother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandchildren.
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D.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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E.
Alexandra Tyng
Alexandra Tyng is an American realist painter known for her figurative and landscape works, and the daughter of renowned architect Louis Kahn.
- 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: Olive Augusta Fenno Alger Target entity description: Olive Augusta Fenno Alger was the mother of American author Horatio Alger Jr., known for his influential 19th-century rags-to-riches novels.
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A.
Elizabeth Palmer
Elizabeth Palmer was the daughter of American painter and writer Sophia Peabody, who was married to the famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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B.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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C.
Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud
Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud was the mother of U.S. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and the maternal grandmother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandchildren.
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D.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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E.
Alexandra Tyng
Alexandra Tyng is an American realist painter known for her figurative and landscape works, and the daughter of renowned architect Louis Kahn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Alger ⓘ |
| givenName | Olive ⓘ |
| hasChild | Horatio Alger Jr. ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Fenno ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Horatio Alger Sr. ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Alger family
ⓘ
Fenno family ⓘ |
| middleName | Augusta ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Horatio Alger Jr.
ⓘ
Horatio Alger Sr. ⓘ |
| placeOfCitizenship | Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Olive Augusta Fenno Alger Description of subject: Olive Augusta Fenno Alger was the mother of American author Horatio Alger Jr., known for his influential 19th-century rags-to-riches novels.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.