Alice Jay Little
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Alice Jay Little was the American wife of Japanese diplomat Saburō Kurusu, known for her unique position as a U.S.-born spouse of a prominent World War II-era envoy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Jay Little canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6206109 — 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 Jay Little Context triple: [Saburō Kurusu, spouse, Alice Jay Little]
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A.
Maria Frances Ackley Russell
Maria Frances Ackley Russell was the wife of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Bible Student movement that later gave rise to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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B.
Emily Willans
Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
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C.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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D.
Mary Lucretia Creighton
Mary Lucretia Creighton was a 19th-century philanthropist whose bequest helped found Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
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E.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
- 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 Jay Little Target entity description: Alice Jay Little was the American wife of Japanese diplomat Saburō Kurusu, known for her unique position as a U.S.-born spouse of a prominent World War II-era envoy.
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A.
Maria Frances Ackley Russell
Maria Frances Ackley Russell was the wife of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Bible Student movement that later gave rise to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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B.
Emily Willans
Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
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C.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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D.
Mary Lucretia Creighton
Mary Lucretia Creighton was a 19th-century philanthropist whose bequest helped found Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
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E.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American woman
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Japanese diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | American ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the American wife of Japanese diplomat Saburō Kurusu
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role as a Japanese envoy during World War II ⓘ unique position as a U.S.-born spouse of a prominent World War II-era Japanese envoy ⓘ |
| occupation | diplomat's spouse ⓘ |
| partOf | World War II-era diplomatic community ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Kurusu family ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alice Jay Little
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Saburō Kurusu ⓘ |
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 Jay Little Description of subject: Alice Jay Little was the American wife of Japanese diplomat Saburō Kurusu, known for her unique position as a U.S.-born spouse of a prominent World War II-era envoy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Alice Jay Little