Alice Proby
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Alice Proby was an English noblewoman of the 18th century, notable as a member of the aristocratic family connected to Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Proby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10485945 — 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: Alice Proby Context triple: [Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, parent, Alice Proby]
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Mary Sheffield
Mary Sheffield was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notable as the daughter of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
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B.
Florence Craye
Florence Craye is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, known as an earnest, intellectual young woman and one of Bertie Wooster’s on-and-off fiancées.
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C.
Elizabeth Jane Young
Elizabeth Jane Young, better known by her stage name Sally Blane, was an American film actress active primarily in the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
Salome Otterbourne
Salome Otterbourne is a flamboyant, alcoholic romance novelist who appears as a key supporting character and suspect in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery "Death on the Nile."
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E.
Adele Cutts
Adele Cutts was a 19th-century American socialite best known as the second wife of prominent U.S. senator and statesman Stephen A. Douglas.
- 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: Alice Proby Target entity description: Alice Proby was an English noblewoman of the 18th century, notable as a member of the aristocratic family connected to Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham.
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A.
Mary Sheffield
Mary Sheffield was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notable as the daughter of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
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B.
Florence Craye
Florence Craye is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, known as an earnest, intellectual young woman and one of Bertie Wooster’s on-and-off fiancées.
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C.
Elizabeth Jane Young
Elizabeth Jane Young, better known by her stage name Sally Blane, was an American film actress active primarily in the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
Salome Otterbourne
Salome Otterbourne is a flamboyant, alcoholic romance novelist who appears as a key supporting character and suspect in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery "Death on the Nile."
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E.
Adele Cutts
Adele Cutts was a 19th-century American socialite best known as the second wife of prominent U.S. senator and statesman Stephen A. Douglas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noblewoman
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Proby ⓘ |
| givenName | Alice ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | English aristocracy ⓘ |
| notableFor | connection to Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 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: Alice Proby Description of subject: Alice Proby was an English noblewoman of the 18th century, notable as a member of the aristocratic family connected to Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.