Ida Magnus
E387913
Ida Magnus was the wife of Paul Julius Reuter, the German-born founder of the Reuters news agency.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ida Magnus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3785709 — 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: Ida Magnus Context triple: [Paul Julius Reuter, spouse, Ida Magnus]
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A.
Ida Langdon
Ida Langdon was an American scholar and writer best known for her work on the life and writings of her uncle, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
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B.
Ida Crowe
Ida Crowe was the second wife of Scottish editor and publisher Hugh Alexander Pollock, known primarily in relation to his personal life rather than for a prominent public career of her own.
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C.
Ida Waterman
Ida Waterman was an American stage and silent film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Ida Farange
Ida Farange is a self-absorbed, neglectful mother in Henry James’s novel "What Maisie Knew," whose bitter divorce and irresponsible behavior shape her daughter Maisie’s troubled upbringing.
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E.
Ida Scott
Ida Scott is a character in James Baldwin's novel "Another Country," which explores complex themes of race, sexuality, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
- 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: Ida Magnus Target entity description: Ida Magnus was the wife of Paul Julius Reuter, the German-born founder of the Reuters news agency.
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A.
Ida Langdon
Ida Langdon was an American scholar and writer best known for her work on the life and writings of her uncle, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
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B.
Ida Crowe
Ida Crowe was the second wife of Scottish editor and publisher Hugh Alexander Pollock, known primarily in relation to his personal life rather than for a prominent public career of her own.
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C.
Ida Waterman
Ida Waterman was an American stage and silent film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Ida Farange
Ida Farange is a self-absorbed, neglectful mother in Henry James’s novel "What Maisie Knew," whose bitter divorce and irresponsible behavior shape her daughter Maisie’s troubled upbringing.
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E.
Ida Scott
Ida Scott is a character in James Baldwin's novel "Another Country," which explores complex themes of race, sexuality, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ news agency ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| founded | Reuters ⓘ |
| name | Ida Magnus ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Paul Julius Reuter ⓘ |
| occupation | news agency founder ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | founder of Reuters news agency ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ida Magnus
ⓘ
Paul Julius Reuter ⓘ |
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: Ida Magnus Description of subject: Ida Magnus was the wife of Paul Julius Reuter, the German-born founder of the Reuters news agency.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.