Ida Houston Nelson
E423390
Ida Houston Nelson was the wife of newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, associated with the early development of The Kansas City Star and civic life in Kansas City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ida Houston Nelson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4258557 — 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 Houston Nelson Context triple: [William Rockhill Nelson, spouse, Ida Houston Nelson]
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A.
Nannie Douglas Scott
Nannie Douglas Scott was the wife of American department store magnate Marshall Field, a key figure in Chicago’s Gilded Age elite.
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B.
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.
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C.
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney was an African American woman whose migration from the Jim Crow South to the North is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s historical study of the Great Migration, *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
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D.
Irma Frost
Irma Frost was one of the daughters of renowned American poet Robert Frost.
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E.
Ida Alice Shourds
Ida Alice Shourds was the second wife of American industrialist and railroad magnate Henry Flagler, whose troubled marriage and eventual institutionalization became a notable episode in his personal life.
- 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 Houston Nelson Target entity description: Ida Houston Nelson was the wife of newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, associated with the early development of The Kansas City Star and civic life in Kansas City.
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A.
Nannie Douglas Scott
Nannie Douglas Scott was the wife of American department store magnate Marshall Field, a key figure in Chicago’s Gilded Age elite.
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B.
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.
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C.
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney was an African American woman whose migration from the Jim Crow South to the North is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s historical study of the Great Migration, *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
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D.
Irma Frost
Irma Frost was one of the daughters of renowned American poet Robert Frost.
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E.
Ida Alice Shourds
Ida Alice Shourds was the second wife of American industrialist and railroad magnate Henry Flagler, whose troubled marriage and eventual institutionalization became a notable episode in his personal life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kansas City civic life
ⓘ
The Kansas City Star ⓘ newspaper publishing community in Kansas City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName | Nelson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | civic affairs ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ida ⓘ |
| languageUsed | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Ida Houston Nelson ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the early development of The Kansas City Star
ⓘ
role in civic life in Kansas City, Missouri ⓘ |
| occupation | civic leader ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Kansas City, Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
|
| relative | William Rockhill Nelson ⓘ |
| residence |
Kansas City, Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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| spouse |
Ida Houston Nelson
ⓘ
William Rockhill Nelson ⓘ |
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 Houston Nelson Description of subject: Ida Houston Nelson was the wife of newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, associated with the early development of The Kansas City Star and civic life in Kansas City.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.