Lady Catherine Alexander
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Lady Catherine Alexander was an American socialite of the late 18th century, notable as the daughter of Continental Army General William Alexander (Lord Stirling) and the wife of financier and politician William Duer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lady Catherine Alexander canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8007042 — 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: Lady Catherine Alexander Context triple: [William Duer, spouse, Lady Catherine Alexander]
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A.
Lady Catherine Manners
Lady Catherine Manners was an 18th-century British aristocrat who became the wife of Whig statesman and future Prime Minister Henry Pelham.
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B.
Lady Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope
Lady Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope was a British aristocrat and political hostess from the influential Stanhope family, best known as the mother of statesman Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
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C.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Lady Catherine de Bourgh is a wealthy, aristocratic, and domineering noblewoman in Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice," known for her haughty manners and attempts to control the lives of those around her.
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D.
Lady Catherine Gordon
Lady Catherine Gordon was a Scottish noblewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of Lord George Gordon, the controversial politician associated with the Gordon Riots.
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E.
Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel
Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel was a British aristocrat and member of the Noel family, notable as the mother of Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk.
- 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: Lady Catherine Alexander Target entity description: Lady Catherine Alexander was an American socialite of the late 18th century, notable as the daughter of Continental Army General William Alexander (Lord Stirling) and the wife of financier and politician William Duer.
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A.
Lady Catherine Manners
Lady Catherine Manners was an 18th-century British aristocrat who became the wife of Whig statesman and future Prime Minister Henry Pelham.
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B.
Lady Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope
Lady Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope was a British aristocrat and political hostess from the influential Stanhope family, best known as the mother of statesman Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
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C.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Lady Catherine de Bourgh is a wealthy, aristocratic, and domineering noblewoman in Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice," known for her haughty manners and attempts to control the lives of those around her.
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D.
Lady Catherine Gordon
Lady Catherine Gordon was a Scottish noblewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of Lord George Gordon, the controversial politician associated with the Gordon Riots.
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E.
Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel
Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel was a British aristocrat and member of the Noel family, notable as the mother of Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American socialite
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historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | American Revolutionary era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Alexander ⓘ |
| father | William Alexander ⓘ |
| fatherAllegiance | Continental Army ⓘ |
| fatherMilitaryRank | Major General ⓘ |
| fatherNobleTitle | Lord Stirling ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | Continental Army general ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Catherine ⓘ |
| marriageSignificance | strengthening social and political networks among New York elite ⓘ |
| mother | Sarah Livingston Alexander ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a prominent American socialite in the late 18th century
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connections to prominent Revolutionary-era political and financial figures ⓘ marriage alliance between the Alexander and Duer families ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New York
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| relative |
Alexander family
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Duer family ⓘ Livingston family ⓘ |
| socialClass |
aristocratic circle
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elite ⓘ |
| spouse | William Duer ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
financier
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politician ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
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: Lady Catherine Alexander Description of subject: Lady Catherine Alexander was an American socialite of the late 18th century, notable as the daughter of Continental Army General William Alexander (Lord Stirling) and the wife of financier and politician William Duer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.