Belle Boyd
E951864
Belle Boyd was a famed Confederate spy during the American Civil War, known for passing crucial information to Southern forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Belle Boyd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11877480 — 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: Belle Boyd Context triple: [Belle Boyd House, namedAfter, Belle Boyd]
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A.
Mary Ann Porter Herold
Mary Ann Porter Herold was the mother of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Mary Alice Herold
Mary Alice Herold is known primarily as the sister of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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D.
Cynthia Ann Stanton Baum
Cynthia Ann Stanton Baum was the mother of American author L. Frank Baum, best known for writing "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Maryellen Elberta Meade
Maryellen Elberta Meade was the wife of renowned American aeronautical engineer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, a key figure behind Lockheed’s Skunk Works.
- 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: Belle Boyd Target entity description: Belle Boyd was a famed Confederate spy during the American Civil War, known for passing crucial information to Southern forces.
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A.
Mary Ann Porter Herold
Mary Ann Porter Herold was the mother of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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B.
Mary Alice Herold
Mary Alice Herold is known primarily as the sister of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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D.
Cynthia Ann Stanton Baum
Cynthia Ann Stanton Baum was the mother of American author L. Frank Baum, best known for writing "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Maryellen Elberta Meade
Maryellen Elberta Meade was the wife of renowned American aeronautical engineer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, a key figure behind Lockheed’s Skunk Works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Belle Boyd Description of subject: Belle Boyd was a famed Confederate spy during the American Civil War, known for passing crucial information to Southern forces.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.