Harriet Westbrook Shelley
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Harriet Westbrook Shelley was the first wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose tragic life and death became a significant episode in the history of the Romantic era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harriet Westbrook Shelley canonical | 5 |
| Harriet Shelley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7041867 — 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: Harriet Westbrook Shelley Context triple: [Wollstonecraft–Shelley circle, hasMember, Harriet Westbrook Shelley]
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A.
Clara Everina Shelley
Clara Everina Shelley was the daughter of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, the writer Mary Shelley.
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B.
Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley
Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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C.
William Shelley
William Shelley was the son of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife, Harriet Westbrook.
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D.
Frances Polidori
Frances Polidori was the Italian-English mother of Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a member of the culturally influential Rossetti-Polidori family.
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E.
Sara Coleridge
Sara Coleridge was a 19th-century English author, translator, and editor best known for her scholarly work on and preservation of her father Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s writings.
- 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: Harriet Westbrook Shelley Target entity description: Harriet Westbrook Shelley was the first wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose tragic life and death became a significant episode in the history of the Romantic era.
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A.
Clara Everina Shelley
Clara Everina Shelley was the daughter of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, the writer Mary Shelley.
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B.
Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley
Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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C.
William Shelley
William Shelley was the son of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife, Harriet Westbrook.
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D.
Frances Polidori
Frances Polidori was the Italian-English mother of Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a member of the culturally influential Rossetti-Polidori family.
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E.
Sara Coleridge
Sara Coleridge was a 19th-century English author, translator, and editor best known for her scholarly work on and preservation of her father Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s writings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Harriet Westbrook Shelley Description of subject: Harriet Westbrook Shelley was the first wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose tragic life and death became a significant episode in the history of the Romantic era.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.