Elizabeth Holdridge
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Elizabeth Holdridge was the wife of American novelist John Dos Passos and a significant companion during his later life and career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elizabeth Holdridge canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3331169 — 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: Elizabeth Holdridge Context triple: [John Dos Passos, spouse, Elizabeth Holdridge]
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A.
Carobeth Laird
Carobeth Laird was an American ethnographer and linguist best known for her influential documentation of Chemehuevi language and culture.
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B.
Helen Humes
Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer known for her work with Count Basie’s orchestra and her versatile, swinging vocal style.
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C.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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D.
Elizabeth Shewell
Elizabeth Shewell was the wife of Anglo-American painter Benjamin West and a member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in the 18th century.
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E.
Margaret Cocks
Margaret Cocks was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Charles Yorke, who became Lord Chancellor of Great 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: Elizabeth Holdridge Target entity description: Elizabeth Holdridge was the wife of American novelist John Dos Passos and a significant companion during his later life and career.
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A.
Carobeth Laird
Carobeth Laird was an American ethnographer and linguist best known for her influential documentation of Chemehuevi language and culture.
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B.
Helen Humes
Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer known for her work with Count Basie’s orchestra and her versatile, swinging vocal style.
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C.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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D.
Elizabeth Shewell
Elizabeth Shewell was the wife of Anglo-American painter Benjamin West and a member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in the 18th century.
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E.
Margaret Cocks
Margaret Cocks was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Charles Yorke, who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a significant companion during the later career of John Dos Passos
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being a significant companion during the later life of John Dos Passos ⓘ being the wife of American novelist John Dos Passos ⓘ |
| spouse | John Dos Passos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Holdridge Description of subject: Elizabeth Holdridge was the wife of American novelist John Dos Passos and a significant companion during his later life and career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Dos Passos