Nelle Wilson Reagan
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Nelle Wilson Reagan was an American woman best known as the mother of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his older brother Neil, and for her influence on Ronald’s religious and moral outlook.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nelle Reagan | 3 |
| Nelle Wilson Reagan canonical | 3 |
| Ruth Elizabeth "Bess" Reagan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3842759 — 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: Nelle Wilson Reagan Context triple: [Neil Reagan, mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan]
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A.
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan was an American actress and First Lady of the United States, known for her influential role in the Reagan administration and her "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign.
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B.
Betty Ford
Betty Ford was the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 and a prominent advocate for women's rights and addiction treatment, co-founding the Betty Ford Center.
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C.
Ron Reagan
Ron Reagan is an American political commentator, radio host, and the son of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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D.
Marilyn Quayle
Marilyn Quayle is an American lawyer, author, and former Second Lady of the United States, known for her conservative political views and active role during her husband Dan Quayle’s vice presidency.
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E.
Christine Reagan
Christine Reagan was the daughter of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, and the younger sister of Maureen Reagan.
- 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: Nelle Wilson Reagan Target entity description: Nelle Wilson Reagan was an American woman best known as the mother of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his older brother Neil, and for her influence on Ronald’s religious and moral outlook.
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A.
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan was an American actress and First Lady of the United States, known for her influential role in the Reagan administration and her "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign.
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B.
Betty Ford
Betty Ford was the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 and a prominent advocate for women's rights and addiction treatment, co-founding the Betty Ford Center.
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C.
Ron Reagan
Ron Reagan is an American political commentator, radio host, and the son of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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D.
Marilyn Quayle
Marilyn Quayle is an American lawyer, author, and former Second Lady of the United States, known for her conservative political views and active role during her husband Dan Quayle’s vice presidency.
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E.
Christine Reagan
Christine Reagan was the daughter of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, and the younger sister of Maureen Reagan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: Nelle Wilson Reagan Description of subject: Nelle Wilson Reagan was an American woman best known as the mother of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his older brother Neil, and for her influence on Ronald’s religious and moral outlook.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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