Jane Budden
E393691
Jane Budden was the wife of inventor Hiram Maxim, known primarily for her association with the famed creator of the Maxim gun.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Budden canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3785768 — 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: Jane Budden Context triple: [Hiram Maxim, spouse, Jane Budden]
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A.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Anna Strunsky Walling
Anna Strunsky Walling was an early 20th-century American socialist, feminist, and writer active in progressive and suffrage movements.
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C.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth Bibesco was a British writer and socialite known for her short stories, novels, and essays, as well as her prominent role in early 20th-century literary and diplomatic circles.
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D.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
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E.
Esther Blodgett
Esther Blodgett is the aspiring singer and actress who becomes a Hollywood star under the stage name Vicki Lester in the 1954 film "A Star Is Born."
- 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: Jane Budden Target entity description: Jane Budden was the wife of inventor Hiram Maxim, known primarily for her association with the famed creator of the Maxim gun.
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A.
Ethel Gross
Ethel Gross was the first wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Anna Strunsky Walling
Anna Strunsky Walling was an early 20th-century American socialist, feminist, and writer active in progressive and suffrage movements.
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C.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth Bibesco was a British writer and socialite known for her short stories, novels, and essays, as well as her prominent role in early 20th-century literary and diplomatic circles.
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D.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
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E.
Esther Blodgett
Esther Blodgett is the aspiring singer and actress who becomes a Hollywood star under the stage name Vicki Lester in the 1954 film "A Star Is Born."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hiram Maxim
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Hiram Maxim
Maxim gun inventor Hiram Maxim ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Hiram Maxim
|
| connectedTo |
history of firearms
ⓘ
industrial-era inventions ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Budden ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Jane ⓘ |
| knownFor | marriage to Hiram Maxim ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableAssociation | Maxim gun ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of inventor Hiram Maxim ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| placeInHistory | 19th-century figure ⓘ |
| residence |
Brooklyn, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Brooklyn
United States of America ⓘ |
| socialRole | wife of a prominent inventor ⓘ |
| spouseFullName |
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Hiram Maxim
|
| spouseNotableFor | invention of the Maxim gun ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | inventor ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Hiram Maxim
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Hiram Maxim
Jane Budden ⓘ |
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: Jane Budden Description of subject: Jane Budden was the wife of inventor Hiram Maxim, known primarily for her association with the famed creator of the Maxim gun.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sir Hiram Maxim
subject linked to:
Jane Budden