Sarah Cox Todd Astor
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Sarah Cox Todd Astor was the wife of American businessman William Backhouse Astor Sr. and a member of the prominent Astor family in 19th-century New York society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothea Astor | 1 |
| Sarah Cox Todd Astor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5096933 — 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: Sarah Cox Todd Astor Context triple: [William Backhouse Astor Sr., mother, Sarah Cox Todd Astor]
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A.
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor was a prominent 19th-century New York socialite who became the leading figure of the city’s Gilded Age high society and arbiter of its elite social circle known as “The Four Hundred.”
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B.
Ava Alice Muriel Astor
Ava Alice Muriel Astor was an American socialite and heiress of the prominent Astor family in the early 20th century.
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C.
Pauline Astor
Pauline Astor was a member of the prominent Anglo-American Astor family, known as the daughter of wealthy businessman William Waldorf Astor and sister of British politician Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.
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D.
Emily Astor
Emily Astor was a member of the prominent Astor family, part of New York's Gilded Age high society.
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E.
Cathleen Vanderbilt
Cathleen Vanderbilt was an American socialite and heiress from the prominent Vanderbilt family in the early 20th century.
- 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: Sarah Cox Todd Astor Target entity description: Sarah Cox Todd Astor was the wife of American businessman William Backhouse Astor Sr. and a member of the prominent Astor family in 19th-century New York society.
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A.
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor was a prominent 19th-century New York socialite who became the leading figure of the city’s Gilded Age high society and arbiter of its elite social circle known as “The Four Hundred.”
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B.
Ava Alice Muriel Astor
Ava Alice Muriel Astor was an American socialite and heiress of the prominent Astor family in the early 20th century.
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C.
Pauline Astor
Pauline Astor was a member of the prominent Anglo-American Astor family, known as the daughter of wealthy businessman William Waldorf Astor and sister of British politician Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.
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D.
Emily Astor
Emily Astor was a member of the prominent Astor family, part of New York's Gilded Age high society.
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E.
Cathleen Vanderbilt
Cathleen Vanderbilt was an American socialite and heiress from the prominent Vanderbilt family in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New York high society ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Astor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Astor family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Sarah Cox Todd Astor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of William Backhouse Astor Sr.
ⓘ
membership in the Astor family ⓘ |
| occupation | society figure ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| socialStatus | upper class ⓘ |
| spouse |
Sarah Cox Todd Astor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Backhouse Astor Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseFamily | Astor family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | American ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | businessman ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Sarah Cox Todd Astor Description of subject: Sarah Cox Todd Astor was the wife of American businessman William Backhouse Astor Sr. and a member of the prominent Astor family in 19th-century New York society.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dorothea Astor