Maria von Quistorp
E322952
Maria von Quistorp was the wife of German-American rocket engineer Wernher von Braun and a member of the German aristocratic Quistorp family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria von Quistorp canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2911720 — 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: Maria von Quistorp Context triple: [Wernher von Braun, spouse, Maria von Quistorp]
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A.
Anna von Schweidnitz
Anna von Schweidnitz was a 14th-century Bohemian queen consort and Holy Roman Empress as the third wife of Emperor Charles IV.
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B.
Marie Luise von Degenfeld
Marie Luise von Degenfeld was a 17th-century German noblewoman best known as the morganatic second wife of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, with whom she had numerous children.
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C.
Maria Ernestine von Starhemberg
Maria Ernestine von Starhemberg was an 18th-century Austrian noblewoman best known as the wife of influential Habsburg statesman Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz.
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D.
Jenny von Westphalen
Jenny von Westphalen was a German political activist and intellectual best known as the lifelong partner and collaborator of philosopher and economist Karl Marx.
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E.
Agatha van Pruyssen
Agatha van Pruyssen was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Carel Fabritius, known for her connection to the artist’s brief but influential life and career.
- 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: Maria von Quistorp Target entity description: Maria von Quistorp was the wife of German-American rocket engineer Wernher von Braun and a member of the German aristocratic Quistorp family.
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A.
Anna von Schweidnitz
Anna von Schweidnitz was a 14th-century Bohemian queen consort and Holy Roman Empress as the third wife of Emperor Charles IV.
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B.
Marie Luise von Degenfeld
Marie Luise von Degenfeld was a 17th-century German noblewoman best known as the morganatic second wife of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, with whom she had numerous children.
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C.
Maria Ernestine von Starhemberg
Maria Ernestine von Starhemberg was an 18th-century Austrian noblewoman best known as the wife of influential Habsburg statesman Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz.
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D.
Jenny von Westphalen
Jenny von Westphalen was a German political activist and intellectual best known as the lifelong partner and collaborator of philosopher and economist Karl Marx.
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E.
Agatha van Pruyssen
Agatha van Pruyssen was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Carel Fabritius, known for her connection to the artist’s brief but influential life and career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ member of nobility ⓘ |
| country of citizenship |
Germany
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United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnic group | German ⓘ |
| family | Quistorp family ⓘ |
| member of | Quistorp family ⓘ |
| name | Maria von Quistorp ⓘ |
| noble family | Quistorp family ⓘ |
| notable relative | Wernher von Braun ⓘ |
| occupation |
aristocrat
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rocket engineer ⓘ |
| residence | Germany ⓘ |
| spouse |
Maria von Quistorp
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Wernher von Braun ⓘ |
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: Maria von Quistorp Description of subject: Maria von Quistorp was the wife of German-American rocket engineer Wernher von Braun and a member of the German aristocratic Quistorp family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.