Fox sisters
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The Fox sisters were three 19th-century American siblings whose alleged spirit communications helped spark and popularize the Spiritualist movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fox sisters canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8935257 — 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.
Target entity: Fox sisters Context triple: [Spiritualism, hasKeyFigure, Fox sisters]
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Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
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Betty Hill
Betty Hill is best known as one of the central figures in a famous alleged alien abduction case in the early 1960s, often referred to as the Betty and Barney Hill incident.
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C.
Virginia Webster
Virginia Webster was the wife of American film actor Richard Dix, known for her marriage to the prominent Hollywood star of the silent and early sound era.
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D.
Mary Shackelford
Mary Shackelford is the second ex-wife of comedian and television host Steve Harvey, with whom she was married in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Sarah Crandall
Sarah Crandall is a character in the 1959 post-apocalyptic science fiction film "The World, the Flesh and the Devil," serving as one of the few survivors navigating life in a deserted New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Fox sisters Target entity description: The Fox sisters were three 19th-century American siblings whose alleged spirit communications helped spark and popularize the Spiritualist movement.
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A.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
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B.
Betty Hill
Betty Hill is best known as one of the central figures in a famous alleged alien abduction case in the early 1960s, often referred to as the Betty and Barney Hill incident.
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C.
Virginia Webster
Virginia Webster was the wife of American film actor Richard Dix, known for her marriage to the prominent Hollywood star of the silent and early sound era.
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D.
Mary Shackelford
Mary Shackelford is the second ex-wife of comedian and television host Steve Harvey, with whom she was married in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Sarah Crandall
Sarah Crandall is a character in the 1959 post-apocalyptic science fiction film "The World, the Flesh and the Devil," serving as one of the few survivors navigating life in a deserted New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American spiritualist mediums
ⓘ
alleged spirit communication event ⓘ group of people ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
spirit rapping
ⓘ
séances ⓘ table-rapping ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| familyName |
Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | mediumship ⓘ |
| genre | spirit communication ⓘ |
| givenName |
Catherine
ⓘ
Leah NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaretta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Catherine Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leah Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaretta Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork | public séances ⓘ |
| influenced |
Spiritualist movement in the United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spiritualist movement in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| location | Hydesville, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Spiritualism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Hydesville rappings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
alleged spirit communications
ⓘ
helping to spark the Spiritualist movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
spiritualist medium
ⓘ
spiritualist medium ⓘ spiritualist medium ⓘ |
| participant |
Catherine Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Margaretta Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Hydesville, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ Rochester, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Spiritualism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1840s ⓘ |
| subjectOf | controversy over authenticity of spirit communications ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Fox sisters Description of subject: The Fox sisters were three 19th-century American siblings whose alleged spirit communications helped spark and popularize the Spiritualist movement.
Referenced by (1)
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