Katharine Smith Dos Passos
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Katharine Smith Dos Passos was the wife of American novelist John Dos Passos and a figure within early 20th-century American literary and social circles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Katharine Smith Dos Passos canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3331168 — 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: Katharine Smith Dos Passos Context triple: [John Dos Passos, spouse, Katharine Smith Dos Passos]
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A.
Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford was an American novelist and short story writer known for her psychologically acute fiction and for winning the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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B.
Diana Trilling Schiffrin
Diana Trilling Schiffrin was an American literary critic and editor known for her work in publishing and her involvement in mid-20th-century intellectual circles.
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C.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a German-born writer and pioneering advocate for international ocean governance and the law of the sea.
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D.
Anna Strout
Anna Strout is an American producer and activist best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to actor Jesse Eisenberg.
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E.
Ellen Zinsser McCloy
Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Katharine Smith Dos Passos Target entity description: Katharine Smith Dos Passos was the wife of American novelist John Dos Passos and a figure within early 20th-century American literary and social circles.
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A.
Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford was an American novelist and short story writer known for her psychologically acute fiction and for winning the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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B.
Diana Trilling Schiffrin
Diana Trilling Schiffrin was an American literary critic and editor known for her work in publishing and her involvement in mid-20th-century intellectual circles.
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C.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a German-born writer and pioneering advocate for international ocean governance and the law of the sea.
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D.
Anna Strout
Anna Strout is an American producer and activist best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to actor Jesse Eisenberg.
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E.
Ellen Zinsser McCloy
Ellen Zinsser McCloy was the wife of influential American lawyer and statesman John J. McCloy, who played major roles in U.S. and international policy in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American socialite
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human ⓘ member of literary circle ⓘ |
| activeIn | early 20th-century American social circles ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American literary community
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John Dos Passos ⓘ |
| country of citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Dos Passos ⓘ |
| givenName | Katharine ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Katharine Smith Dos Passos ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of novelist John Dos Passos
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participation in early 20th-century American literary circles ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | John Dos Passos ⓘ |
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: Katharine Smith Dos Passos Description of subject: Katharine Smith Dos Passos was the wife of American novelist John Dos Passos and a figure within early 20th-century American literary and social circles.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.