Eliza Allen Houston
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Eliza Allen Houston was a 19th-century American woman best known for her brief, tumultuous marriage to future Texas president Sam Houston and the enduring mystery surrounding their separation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eliza Allen Houston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6709687 — 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: Eliza Allen Houston Context triple: [Eliza Allen, knownAs, Eliza Allen Houston]
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A.
Henrietta Williams Houston
Henrietta Williams Houston was the wife of pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston and a figure connected to the early 20th-century African American professional and activist community.
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B.
Ida Houston Nelson
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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C.
Marion Morehouse
Marion Morehouse was an American fashion model of the 1920s and 1930s who became closely associated with the modernist literary and artistic circles of her time.
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D.
Arabella Maria Smith Dallas
Arabella Maria Smith Dallas was the mother of George M. Dallas, the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
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E.
Julia King Grady
Julia King Grady was the wife of influential 19th-century American journalist and orator Henry W. Grady, associated with Atlanta's post-Civil War "New South" movement.
- 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: Eliza Allen Houston Target entity description: Eliza Allen Houston was a 19th-century American woman best known for her brief, tumultuous marriage to future Texas president Sam Houston and the enduring mystery surrounding their separation.
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A.
Henrietta Williams Houston
Henrietta Williams Houston was the wife of pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston and a figure connected to the early 20th-century African American professional and activist community.
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B.
Ida Houston Nelson
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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C.
Marion Morehouse
Marion Morehouse was an American fashion model of the 1920s and 1930s who became closely associated with the modernist literary and artistic circles of her time.
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D.
Arabella Maria Smith Dallas
Arabella Maria Smith Dallas was the mother of George M. Dallas, the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
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E.
Julia King Grady
Julia King Grady was the wife of influential 19th-century American journalist and orator Henry W. Grady, associated with Atlanta's post-Civil War "New South" movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sam Houston
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Tennessee political society ⓘ |
| chronologicallyWithin | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs |
figure of romantic and historical intrigue
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mysterious first wife of Sam Houston ⓘ |
| familyName | Allen ⓘ |
| givenName | Eliza ⓘ |
| hasCauseOfNotability | connection to future Texas president Sam Houston ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
private about personal life
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subject of historical speculation ⓘ |
| influenced |
Sam Houston’s personal life
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Sam Houston’s political career trajectory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
annulled or separated marriage shortly after wedding
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refusal to publicly explain reasons for separation ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1829 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1829 ⓘ |
| marriedName | Houston ⓘ |
| notableFor |
brief marriage to Sam Houston
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mysterious separation from Sam Houston ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Tennessee ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Sam Houston ⓘ |
| topicOf |
biographical articles about Sam Houston
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historical discussions of 19th-century marriage and gender roles ⓘ |
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: Eliza Allen Houston Description of subject: Eliza Allen Houston was a 19th-century American woman best known for her brief, tumultuous marriage to future Texas president Sam Houston and the enduring mystery surrounding their separation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.