Anne Lister
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Anne Lister was a 19th-century English landowner, diarist, and mountaineer, often regarded as one of the first modern lesbians due to her detailed coded journals about her life and relationships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anne Lister canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11629287 — 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: Anne Lister Context triple: [Vignemale massif, firstAscentBy, Anne Lister]
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A.
Sarah Hickman Fielden
Sarah Hickman Fielden was the wife of British socialist and trade unionist Samuel Fielden, associated with his political and labor activism in the late 19th century.
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B.
Elizabeth Fothergill
Elizabeth Fothergill is a British public figure and representative of the Crown who serves as the ceremonial head of the county of Derbyshire.
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C.
Louisa Hawkins
Louisa Hawkins was the first wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famed British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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D.
Caroline Louisa Burnaby
Caroline Louisa Burnaby was an English gentlewoman best known as the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and thus a direct ancestor of the modern British royal family.
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E.
Lady Maria Josepha Holroyd
Lady Maria Josepha Holroyd was a British aristocrat and member of the influential Holroyd family, connected to prominent political and social circles in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
- 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: Anne Lister Target entity description: Anne Lister was a 19th-century English landowner, diarist, and mountaineer, often regarded as one of the first modern lesbians due to her detailed coded journals about her life and relationships.
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A.
Sarah Hickman Fielden
Sarah Hickman Fielden was the wife of British socialist and trade unionist Samuel Fielden, associated with his political and labor activism in the late 19th century.
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B.
Elizabeth Fothergill
Elizabeth Fothergill is a British public figure and representative of the Crown who serves as the ceremonial head of the county of Derbyshire.
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C.
Louisa Hawkins
Louisa Hawkins was the first wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famed British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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D.
Caroline Louisa Burnaby
Caroline Louisa Burnaby was an English gentlewoman best known as the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and thus a direct ancestor of the modern British royal family.
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E.
Lady Maria Josepha Holroyd
Lady Maria Josepha Holroyd was a British aristocrat and member of the influential Holroyd family, connected to prominent political and social circles in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT person
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businesswoman ⓘ diarist ⓘ human ⓘ landowner ⓘ lesbian ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ traveller ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Halifax Minster ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
fever
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probable tick-borne illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1791-04-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1840-09-22 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyResidence |
Shibden Hall, near Halifax
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linked to:
Shibden Hall
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| fieldOfWork |
estate management
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mountaineering ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| genre | diaries ⓘ |
| hasRepresentationIn |
television series "Gentleman Jack"
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linked to:
Gentleman Jack
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| influenced |
modern LGBT historiography
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representation of lesbians in popular culture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being described as the "first modern lesbian"
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detailed coded journals about her personal life and relationships with women ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | early lesbian history ⓘ |
| name | Anne Lister ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
expanded and managed the Shibden Hall estate
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kept extensive diaries documenting her lesbian relationships ⓘ undertook extensive travels in Europe and the Caucasus ⓘ |
| notableWork | coded diaries ⓘ |
| occupation |
businesswoman
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diarist ⓘ landowner ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ traveller ⓘ |
| partner |
Ann Walker
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Eliza Raine ⓘ Mariana Lawton ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Halifax, England
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Halifax, West Yorkshire ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Russian Empire
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near Kutaisi, Georgia ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism
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linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
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| residence |
Halifax, West Yorkshire
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Shibden Hall ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| usedWritingSystem | secret code combining Greek letters and algebraic symbols ⓘ |
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: Anne Lister Description of subject: Anne Lister was a 19th-century English landowner, diarist, and mountaineer, often regarded as one of the first modern lesbians due to her detailed coded journals about her life and relationships.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.