Elsie Altmann
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Elsie Altmann was an Austrian dancer and actress of the early 20th century, known both for her stage career in Vienna and for her marriage to modernist architect Adolf Loos.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elsie Altmann canonical | 2 |
| Lotte Altmann | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9064788 — 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: Elsie Altmann Context triple: [Adolf Loos, spouse, Elsie Altmann]
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A.
Elsa Löwenthal
Elsa Löwenthal, better known as Elsa Einstein, was the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein and often managed his personal and social affairs.
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B.
Leonore Cohn
Leonore Cohn, later known as Leonore Annenberg, was an American philanthropist and arts patron who served as Chief of Protocol of the United States under President Ronald Reagan.
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C.
Helene Deutsch
Helene Deutsch was a pioneering psychoanalyst best known for her influential work on female psychology and motherhood within the early Freudian movement.
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D.
Edith Weiss
Edith Weiss is a notable individual recognized for bearing the surname Weiss, though specific widely known biographical or professional details about her are not well documented.
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E.
Margot Löwenthal
Margot Löwenthal was the daughter of Elsa Löwenthal, who was Albert Einstein’s second wife and cousin.
- 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: Elsie Altmann Target entity description: Elsie Altmann was an Austrian dancer and actress of the early 20th century, known both for her stage career in Vienna and for her marriage to modernist architect Adolf Loos.
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A.
Elsa Löwenthal
Elsa Löwenthal, better known as Elsa Einstein, was the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein and often managed his personal and social affairs.
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B.
Leonore Cohn
Leonore Cohn, later known as Leonore Annenberg, was an American philanthropist and arts patron who served as Chief of Protocol of the United States under President Ronald Reagan.
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C.
Helene Deutsch
Helene Deutsch was a pioneering psychoanalyst best known for her influential work on female psychology and motherhood within the early Freudian movement.
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D.
Edith Weiss
Edith Weiss is a notable individual recognized for bearing the surname Weiss, though specific widely known biographical or professional details about her are not well documented.
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E.
Margot Löwenthal
Margot Löwenthal was the daughter of Elsa Löwenthal, who was Albert Einstein’s second wife and cousin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austrian person
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actress ⓘ dancer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Adolf Loos
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Viennese theatre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Austrian ⓘ |
| familyName | Altmann ⓘ |
| genre |
dance
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theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Elsie ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| movement | early 20th-century performing arts ⓘ |
| name | Elsie Altmann ⓘ |
| notableEra | early 20th century ⓘ |
| notableFor |
marriage to Adolf Loos
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stage career in Vienna ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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dancer ⓘ |
| performingArtForm |
dance performance
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stage acting ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Vienna ⓘ |
| residence | Vienna ⓘ |
| spouse | Adolf Loos ⓘ |
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: Elsie Altmann Description of subject: Elsie Altmann was an Austrian dancer and actress of the early 20th century, known both for her stage career in Vienna and for her marriage to modernist architect Adolf Loos.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Elsie Altmann