Susan A. Houghton
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Susan A. Houghton was the wife of American inventor Elisha Otis, known for his development of the safety elevator.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susan A. Houghton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10003311 — 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: Susan A. Houghton Context triple: [Elisha Otis, spouse, Susan A. Houghton]
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A.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Elizabeth B. Prelogar is an American lawyer and legal scholar who serves as the chief advocate for the U.S. government before the Supreme Court.
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B.
Kaye V. Dowling
Kaye V. Dowling was the wife of American film, radio, and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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C.
Rachel R. Cosgrove
Rachel R. Cosgrove was an American author best known for writing later, officially recognized sequels to L. Frank Baum’s original Oz books.
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D.
Catherine C. Eagles
Catherine C. Eagles is a United States federal judge serving as the chief judge of the Middle District of North Carolina.
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E.
Peggy Eisenhauer
Peggy Eisenhauer is a renowned American lighting designer known for her acclaimed work on Broadway productions and collaborations with top theater artists.
- 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: Susan A. Houghton Target entity description: Susan A. Houghton was the wife of American inventor Elisha Otis, known for his development of the safety elevator.
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A.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Elizabeth B. Prelogar is an American lawyer and legal scholar who serves as the chief advocate for the U.S. government before the Supreme Court.
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B.
Kaye V. Dowling
Kaye V. Dowling was the wife of American film, radio, and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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C.
Rachel R. Cosgrove
Rachel R. Cosgrove was an American author best known for writing later, officially recognized sequels to L. Frank Baum’s original Oz books.
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D.
Catherine C. Eagles
Catherine C. Eagles is a United States federal judge serving as the chief judge of the Middle District of North Carolina.
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E.
Peggy Eisenhauer
Peggy Eisenhauer is a renowned American lighting designer known for her acclaimed work on Broadway productions and collaborations with top theater artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of American inventor Elisha Otis
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development of the safety elevator ⓘ |
| occupation | inventor ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elisha Otis
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Susan A. Houghton ⓘ |
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: Susan A. Houghton Description of subject: Susan A. Houghton was the wife of American inventor Elisha Otis, known for his development of the safety elevator.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Susan A. Houghton