Edna Young
E263866
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edna Young canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T901604 — 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: Edna Young Context triple: [Neil Young, parent, Edna Young]
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A.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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B.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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C.
Della Mae Jones
Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
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D.
Frances Annie Dyer
Frances Annie Dyer was the wife of British Indian Army officer Reginald Dyer, who is infamous for ordering the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.
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E.
Louise Treadwell
Louise Treadwell was an American actress and philanthropist best known as the longtime wife of actor Spencer Tracy and co-founder of the John Tracy Clinic for children with hearing impairments.
- 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: Edna Young Target entity description: Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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A.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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B.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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C.
Della Mae Jones
Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
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D.
Frances Annie Dyer
Frances Annie Dyer was the wife of British Indian Army officer Reginald Dyer, who is infamous for ordering the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.
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E.
Louise Treadwell
Louise Treadwell was an American actress and philanthropist best known as the longtime wife of actor Spencer Tracy and co-founder of the John Tracy Clinic for children with hearing impairments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Neil Young ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| mother | Edna Young self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Edna Young Description of subject: Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Neil Young