Alice James
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Alice James was an American diarist and intellectual from the prominent James family, known for her incisive journals that document her struggles with illness and her reflections on late 19th-century life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice James canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T402548 — 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: Alice James Context triple: [Henry James, sibling, Alice James]
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A.
Dorothy Quincy
Dorothy Quincy was an American socialite and prominent figure of the Revolutionary era, best known as the wife of statesman and Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock.
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B.
Roxana Foote Beecher
Roxana Foote Beecher was an American woman of the early 19th century known primarily as the mother of author Harriet Beecher Stowe and as a member of the prominent Beecher family.
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C.
Helen Dinsmore Huntington
Helen Dinsmore Huntington was an American socialite and arts patron from a prominent New York family, best known for her influential role in early 20th-century high society and cultural philanthropy.
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D.
Elizabeth Peabody
Elizabeth Peabody was a 19th-century American educator, publisher, and Transcendentalist known for pioneering kindergarten education in the United States and promoting progressive intellectual and social reform.
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E.
Sophia Peabody
Sophia Peabody was a 19th-century American painter, illustrator, and writer associated with the Transcendentalist circle and known for her intellectual partnership with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- 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: Alice James Target entity description: Alice James was an American diarist and intellectual from the prominent James family, known for her incisive journals that document her struggles with illness and her reflections on late 19th-century life.
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A.
Dorothy Quincy
Dorothy Quincy was an American socialite and prominent figure of the Revolutionary era, best known as the wife of statesman and Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock.
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B.
Roxana Foote Beecher
Roxana Foote Beecher was an American woman of the early 19th century known primarily as the mother of author Harriet Beecher Stowe and as a member of the prominent Beecher family.
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C.
Helen Dinsmore Huntington
Helen Dinsmore Huntington was an American socialite and arts patron from a prominent New York family, best known for her influential role in early 20th-century high society and cultural philanthropy.
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D.
Elizabeth Peabody
Elizabeth Peabody was a 19th-century American educator, publisher, and Transcendentalist known for pioneering kindergarten education in the United States and promoting progressive intellectual and social reform.
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E.
Sophia Peabody
Sophia Peabody was a 19th-century American painter, illustrator, and writer associated with the Transcendentalist circle and known for her intellectual partnership with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Alice James Description of subject: Alice James was an American diarist and intellectual from the prominent James family, known for her incisive journals that document her struggles with illness and her reflections on late 19th-century life.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.