Queen of the Waves
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"Queen of the Waves" is the nickname of Gertrude Ederle, the pioneering American swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel and broke the existing men's record.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Queen of the Waves canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8573236 — 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: Queen of the Waves Context triple: [Gertrude Ederle, knownAs, Queen of the Waves]
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A.
Queen of the Sea
Queen of the Sea is the mythological title of Amphitrite, the sea goddess and wife of Poseidon in ancient Greek mythology.
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B.
Queen of the World
Queen of the World is the English translation of the Latin title "Regina Mundi," a Marian designation for the Virgin Mary emphasizing her universal queenship.
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C.
Lady of the Sea
Lady of the Sea is a reverential epithet for the ancient Northwest Semitic goddess Asherah, associated with the sea, fertility, and motherhood.
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D.
Jewel of the Port
Jewel of the Port is a picturesque historic lighthouse on Lake Erie in Lorain, Ohio, renowned as a local maritime landmark and symbol of the city’s waterfront.
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E.
Seven Seas
Seven Seas is a traditional maritime term referring to the world’s major seas and oceans collectively.
- 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: Queen of the Waves Target entity description: "Queen of the Waves" is the nickname of Gertrude Ederle, the pioneering American swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel and broke the existing men's record.
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A.
Queen of the Sea
Queen of the Sea is the mythological title of Amphitrite, the sea goddess and wife of Poseidon in ancient Greek mythology.
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B.
Queen of the World
Queen of the World is the English translation of the Latin title "Regina Mundi," a Marian designation for the Virgin Mary emphasizing her universal queenship.
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C.
Lady of the Sea
Lady of the Sea is a reverential epithet for the ancient Northwest Semitic goddess Asherah, associated with the sea, fertility, and motherhood.
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D.
Jewel of the Port
Jewel of the Port is a picturesque historic lighthouse on Lake Erie in Lorain, Ohio, renowned as a local maritime landmark and symbol of the city’s waterfront.
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E.
Seven Seas
Seven Seas is a traditional maritime term referring to the world’s major seas and oceans collectively.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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Olympic swimmer ⓘ human ⓘ long-distance swimmer ⓘ nickname ⓘ swimmer ⓘ |
| brokeRecordOf | previous men’s English Channel swim record ⓘ |
| causeOfDisability | hearing loss ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1905-10-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-11-30 ⓘ |
| EnglishChannelCrossingDate | 1926-08-06 ⓘ |
| EnglishChannelRoute | France to England ⓘ |
| EnglishChannelTime | 14 hours 31 minutes ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | German-American ⓘ |
| honor |
inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame
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inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| inspired | greater acceptance of women in competitive sports ⓘ |
| knownFor | English Channel swim ⓘ |
| mediaNickname | Queen of the Waves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Olympic swimming team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Queen of the Waves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | set multiple world records in swimming ⓘ |
| notableFor |
breaking the existing men’s record for swimming the English Channel
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first woman to swim across the English Channel ⓘ |
| occupation | swimmer ⓘ |
| OlympicMedal |
bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics (individual freestyle event)
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gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics (4×100 m freestyle relay) ⓘ |
| participantIn | 1924 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Manhattan
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New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Wyckoff, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordHeld | fastest English Channel swim time (1926) ⓘ |
| refersTo | Gertrude Ederle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sport | swimming ⓘ |
| strokeSpecialty | freestyle ⓘ |
| trainedAt | Women’s Swimming Association of New York 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: Queen of the Waves Description of subject: "Queen of the Waves" is the nickname of Gertrude Ederle, the pioneering American swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel and broke the existing men's record.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.