Elizabeth Sumner
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Elizabeth Sumner was the first wife of English anthropologist and social scientist Gregory Bateson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Sumner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3691045 — 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: Elizabeth Sumner Context triple: [Gregory Bateson, spouse, Elizabeth Sumner]
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A.
Anne Ashmond
Anne Ashmond is a fictional character appearing in the film "Royal Wedding."
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B.
Emily Sargent
Emily Sargent was a British artist and watercolorist, best known for her landscapes and for being part of the culturally prominent Sargent family.
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C.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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D.
Elizabeth Alington
Elizabeth Alington was a British aristocrat and the wife of Conservative politician and former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
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E.
Elizabeth Simeon
Elizabeth Simeon was the wife of prominent English parliamentarian John Hampden, a leading opponent of King Charles I in the period preceding the English Civil War.
- 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: Elizabeth Sumner Target entity description: Elizabeth Sumner was the first wife of English anthropologist and social scientist Gregory Bateson.
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A.
Anne Ashmond
Anne Ashmond is a fictional character appearing in the film "Royal Wedding."
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B.
Emily Sargent
Emily Sargent was a British artist and watercolorist, best known for her landscapes and for being part of the culturally prominent Sargent family.
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C.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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D.
Elizabeth Alington
Elizabeth Alington was a British aristocrat and the wife of Conservative politician and former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
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E.
Elizabeth Simeon
Elizabeth Simeon was the wife of prominent English parliamentarian John Hampden, a leading opponent of King Charles I in the period preceding the English Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Gregory Bateson ⓘ |
| numberOfMarriages | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
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poet ⓘ social scientist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Sumner
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Gregory Bateson ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Sumner Description of subject: Elizabeth Sumner was the first wife of English anthropologist and social scientist Gregory Bateson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Elizabeth Sumner