Ellen Maria Wade
E376208
Ellen Maria Wade was the wife of U.S. Vice President Schuyler Colfax and a member of a prominent 19th-century American political family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ellen Maria Wade canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2959849 — 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: Ellen Maria Wade Context triple: [Schuyler Colfax, spouse, Ellen Maria Wade]
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A.
Elizabeth C. Ware
Elizabeth C. Ware was a benefactor whose financial support helped make possible the creation or acquisition of the renowned Blaschka Glass Models of Plants.
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B.
Emily Willans
Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
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C.
Louisa E. Masterson
Louisa E. Masterson was a family member of famed Old West lawman and gambler Bat Masterson, known primarily through her relation to him.
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D.
Elizabeth Wendell
Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
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E.
Ellen Louisa Tucker
Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
- 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: Ellen Maria Wade Target entity description: Ellen Maria Wade was the wife of U.S. Vice President Schuyler Colfax and a member of a prominent 19th-century American political family.
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A.
Elizabeth C. Ware
Elizabeth C. Ware was a benefactor whose financial support helped make possible the creation or acquisition of the renowned Blaschka Glass Models of Plants.
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B.
Emily Willans
Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
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C.
Louisa E. Masterson
Louisa E. Masterson was a family member of famed Old West lawman and gambler Bat Masterson, known primarily through her relation to him.
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D.
Elizabeth Wendell
Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
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E.
Ellen Louisa Tucker
Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American socialite
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Wade ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ellen ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Wade family ⓘ |
| name | Ellen Maria Wade ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of U.S. Vice President Schuyler Colfax
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belonging to a prominent 19th-century American political family ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| relative |
Benjamin Franklin Wade
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linked to:
Benjamin F. Wade
Ellen Maria Wade ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ellen Maria Wade
ⓘ
Schuyler Colfax ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Ellen Maria Wade Description of subject: Ellen Maria Wade was the wife of U.S. Vice President Schuyler Colfax and a member of a prominent 19th-century American political family.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.