Clara B. Spence
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Clara B. Spence was an American educator and reformer best known for founding the prestigious Spence School for girls in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clara B. Spence canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2794116 — 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: Clara B. Spence Context triple: [Spence School, foundedBy, Clara B. Spence]
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A.
Clara T. Bracy
Clara T. Bracy was a British-born stage and silent film actress active in the early 20th century, known for her work in pioneering American cinema.
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B.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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C.
Alma Johnson Powell
Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
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D.
Elizabeth Wells
Elizabeth Wells was the wife of American Founding Father and revolutionary leader Samuel Adams.
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E.
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell was a pioneering African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who helped lead early 20th-century struggles against racial and gender discrimination.
- 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: Clara B. Spence Target entity description: Clara B. Spence was an American educator and reformer best known for founding the prestigious Spence School for girls in New York City.
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A.
Clara T. Bracy
Clara T. Bracy was a British-born stage and silent film actress active in the early 20th century, known for her work in pioneering American cinema.
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B.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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C.
Alma Johnson Powell
Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
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D.
Elizabeth Wells
Elizabeth Wells was the wife of American Founding Father and revolutionary leader Samuel Adams.
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E.
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell was a pioneering African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who helped lead early 20th-century struggles against racial and gender discrimination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
educator ⓘ human ⓘ reformer ⓘ school founder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Spence School ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
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girls' education ⓘ |
| founded | Spence School ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding the Spence School for girls in New York City ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | educational reform ⓘ |
| name | Clara B. Spence ⓘ |
| notability | prestigious girls' school founder ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding the Spence School ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
school founder ⓘ school principal ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New York
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New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| studentFocus | girls ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Clara B. Spence Description of subject: Clara B. Spence was an American educator and reformer best known for founding the prestigious Spence School for girls in New York City.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.