Phyllis Shorenstein
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Phyllis Shorenstein was an American civic leader and philanthropist active in San Francisco’s cultural and Jewish community life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phyllis Shorenstein canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2673366 — 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: Phyllis Shorenstein Context triple: [Walter H. Shorenstein, spouse, Phyllis Shorenstein]
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A.
Edith Foster Dulles
Edith Foster Dulles was the daughter of influential U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and a member of the prominent Dulles political family.
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B.
Gladys Ricarde Seaver
Gladys Ricarde Seaver was the second wife of economist Joseph Schumpeter, known primarily for her marriage to him and her role in his personal life.
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C.
Carole Robertson
Carole Robertson was a 14-year-old African American girl and civil rights martyr who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Patricia Haines
Patricia Haines was a British actress known for her television and film roles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Audrey Robinson Felt
Audrey Robinson Felt was the wife of former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, who was later revealed to be the Watergate informant "Deep Throat."
- 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: Phyllis Shorenstein Target entity description: Phyllis Shorenstein was an American civic leader and philanthropist active in San Francisco’s cultural and Jewish community life.
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A.
Edith Foster Dulles
Edith Foster Dulles was the daughter of influential U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and a member of the prominent Dulles political family.
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B.
Gladys Ricarde Seaver
Gladys Ricarde Seaver was the second wife of economist Joseph Schumpeter, known primarily for her marriage to him and her role in his personal life.
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C.
Carole Robertson
Carole Robertson was a 14-year-old African American girl and civil rights martyr who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Patricia Haines
Patricia Haines was a British actress known for her television and film roles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Audrey Robinson Felt
Audrey Robinson Felt was the wife of former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, who was later revealed to be the Watergate informant "Deep Throat."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic leader
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human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Jewish community life
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arts and culture ⓘ civic engagement ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in the Jewish community in San Francisco
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supporting San Francisco cultural institutions ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | San Francisco ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco ⓘ |
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: Phyllis Shorenstein Description of subject: Phyllis Shorenstein was an American civic leader and philanthropist active in San Francisco’s cultural and Jewish community life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.