Dora Gray Duncan
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Dora Gray Duncan was the mother of pioneering American modern dancer Isadora Duncan and played a formative role in her early life and artistic development.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dora Gray Duncan canonical | 2 |
| Dora Gray | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10352217 — 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: Dora Gray Duncan Context triple: [Isadora Duncan, mother, Dora Gray Duncan]
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A.
Dora Strang
Dora Strang is a character in Peter Shaffer's play "Equus," portrayed as the deeply religious mother of the troubled teenager Alan Strang.
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B.
Daisy Barlow
Daisy Barlow is a daughter of English singer-songwriter and Take That frontman Gary Barlow.
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C.
Flora Drew
Flora Drew is a British translator and editor best known for her work translating and promoting the writings of Chinese author Ma Jian.
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D.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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E.
Lucy Lloyd
Lucy Lloyd was a 19th-century South African linguist and ethnographer renowned for her pioneering documentation of the |Xam and other indigenous San languages and oral traditions.
- 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: Dora Gray Duncan Target entity description: Dora Gray Duncan was the mother of pioneering American modern dancer Isadora Duncan and played a formative role in her early life and artistic development.
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A.
Dora Strang
Dora Strang is a character in Peter Shaffer's play "Equus," portrayed as the deeply religious mother of the troubled teenager Alan Strang.
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B.
Daisy Barlow
Daisy Barlow is a daughter of English singer-songwriter and Take That frontman Gary Barlow.
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C.
Flora Drew
Flora Drew is a British translator and editor best known for her work translating and promoting the writings of Chinese author Ma Jian.
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D.
Yvette Livesey
Yvette Livesey is a former Miss United Kingdom and music industry figure best known as the long-term partner of Manchester music impresario Tony Wilson and co-organizer of the In the City music conference.
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E.
Lucy Lloyd
Lucy Lloyd was a 19th-century South African linguist and ethnographer renowned for her pioneering documentation of the |Xam and other indigenous San languages and oral traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| child | Isadora Duncan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| influenced | Isadora Duncan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
formative role in Isadora Duncan’s early life
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influence on Isadora Duncan’s artistic development ⓘ |
| notableRole | mother of Isadora Duncan ⓘ |
| occupation | mother and homemaker ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Dora Gray Duncan Description of subject: Dora Gray Duncan was the mother of pioneering American modern dancer Isadora Duncan and played a formative role in her early life and artistic development.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dora Gray Duncan