Charles Walter Stetson
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Charles Walter Stetson was an American artist best known as the first husband of writer and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Walter Stetson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9835148 — 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: Charles Walter Stetson Context triple: [Charlotte Perkins Gilman, spouse, Charles Walter Stetson]
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A.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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B.
William Stetson Merrill
William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
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C.
Russell Benjamin Harrison
Russell Benjamin Harrison was an American lawyer, politician, and the son of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison and First Lady Caroline Harrison.
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D.
Franklin D’Olier Reeve
Franklin D’Olier Reeve was an American poet, critic, translator, and academic, known for his work in Russian literature and for being the father of actor Christopher Reeve.
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E.
Peter Hardeman Burnett
Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
- 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: Charles Walter Stetson Target entity description: Charles Walter Stetson was an American artist best known as the first husband of writer and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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A.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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B.
William Stetson Merrill
William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
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C.
Russell Benjamin Harrison
Russell Benjamin Harrison was an American lawyer, politician, and the son of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison and First Lady Caroline Harrison.
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D.
Franklin D’Olier Reeve
Franklin D’Olier Reeve was an American poet, critic, translator, and academic, known for his work in Russian literature and for being the father of actor Christopher Reeve.
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E.
Peter Hardeman Burnett
Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
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visual arts ⓘ |
| genre |
landscape painting
ⓘ
portrait painting ⓘ religious painting ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Stetson ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Walter ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
American art
ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first husband of Charlotte Perkins Gilman ⓘ |
| notableWork | symbolist paintings ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
painter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles Walter Stetson
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Charles Walter Stetson Description of subject: Charles Walter Stetson was an American artist best known as the first husband of writer and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.