Lilian Howard
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Lilian Howard was the mother of British actor and director Leslie Howard Steiner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lilian Howard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493293 — 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: Lilian Howard Context triple: [Leslie Howard Steiner, mother, Lilian Howard]
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A.
Mary White Morris
Mary White Morris was an American socialite and prominent figure in early U.S. political society, known for her marriage to Founding Father and financier Robert Morris.
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B.
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell was the mother of American poet and critic James Russell Lowell and a member of the prominent Lowell family of New England.
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C.
Alice Howe Gibbens
Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
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D.
Clara T. Bracy
Clara T. Bracy was a British-born stage and silent film actress active in the early 20th century, known for her work in pioneering American cinema.
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E.
Alice Richmond
Alice Richmond is the daughter of comedian, writer, and actress Tina Fey and her husband, composer Jeff Richmond.
- 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: Lilian Howard Target entity description: Lilian Howard was the mother of British actor and director Leslie Howard Steiner.
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A.
Mary White Morris
Mary White Morris was an American socialite and prominent figure in early U.S. political society, known for her marriage to Founding Father and financier Robert Morris.
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B.
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell was the mother of American poet and critic James Russell Lowell and a member of the prominent Lowell family of New England.
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C.
Alice Howe Gibbens
Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
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D.
Clara T. Bracy
Clara T. Bracy was a British-born stage and silent film actress active in the early 20th century, known for her work in pioneering American cinema.
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E.
Alice Richmond
Alice Richmond is the daughter of comedian, writer, and actress Tina Fey and her husband, composer Jeff Richmond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Steiner ⓘ |
| hasChild | Leslie Howard ⓘ |
| mother | Lilian Howard ⓘ |
| notableWork | mother of Leslie Howard ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ homemaker ⓘ |
| sexOrGender |
female
ⓘ
male ⓘ |
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: Lilian Howard Description of subject: Lilian Howard was the mother of British actor and director Leslie Howard Steiner.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lilian Howard