Addams
E31034
Addams is the surname of Jane Addams, the pioneering American social reformer, peace activist, and co-founder of Chicago’s Hull House.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Addams canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T242966 — 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: Addams Context triple: [Jane Addams, familyName, Addams]
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A.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
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B.
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane is the superstitious, lanky schoolteacher whose eerie encounter with the Headless Horseman drives the plot of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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C.
Horton
Horton is the middle name of the influential British mathematician John H. Conway, renowned for his work in group theory, knot theory, and recreational mathematics.
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D.
Heebie Jeebies
"Heebie Jeebies" is a 1926 jazz recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, famous for popularizing scat singing in mainstream jazz.
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E.
Madam
"Madam" is a formal term of address for a woman, often used to show respect or politeness in social, professional, or official contexts.
- 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: Addams Target entity description: Addams is the surname of Jane Addams, the pioneering American social reformer, peace activist, and co-founder of Chicago’s Hull House.
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A.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
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B.
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane is the superstitious, lanky schoolteacher whose eerie encounter with the Headless Horseman drives the plot of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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C.
Horton
Horton is the middle name of the influential British mathematician John H. Conway, renowned for his work in group theory, knot theory, and recreational mathematics.
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D.
Heebie Jeebies
"Heebie Jeebies" is a 1926 jazz recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, famous for popularizing scat singing in mainstream jazz.
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E.
Madam
"Madam" is a formal term of address for a woman, often used to show respect or politeness in social, professional, or official contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithFictionalFranchise |
The Addams Family (via Charles Addams)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Addams Family cartoons by Charles Addams
|
| associatedWithField |
peace activism (via Jane Addams)
ⓘ
social reform (via Jane Addams) ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Hull House (via Jane Addams)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hull House
|
| associatedWithPlace | Chicago (via Jane Addams) ⓘ |
| familyName |
Addams
ⓘ
Addams ⓘ Addams ⓘ Addams ⓘ Addams ⓘ Addams ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Surnames of English origin ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Charles Addams
ⓘ
Dawn Addams ⓘ Jane Addams ⓘ Jane Addams Award (eponymous) ⓘ Robert Addams ⓘ William Addams ⓘ |
| hasNotableFictionalUsage |
The Addams Family
ⓘ
linked to:
The Addams Family (1991 film)
|
| hasSpellingVariant | Adams ⓘ |
| isPatronymicFormOf | Adam ⓘ |
| sharesEtymologicalOriginWith | Adams ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Addams Description of subject: Addams is the surname of Jane Addams, the pioneering American social reformer, peace activist, and co-founder of Chicago’s Hull House.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.