Catherine Opalinska
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Catherine Opalinska was a Polish noblewoman known primarily as the wife of French-Polish statesman and diplomat Alexandre Colonna-Walewski.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Catherine Opalinska canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T719752 — 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: Catherine Opalinska Context triple: [Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, spouse, Catherine Opalinska]
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A.
Ewelina Hańska
Ewelina Hańska was a Polish noblewoman best known as the longtime correspondent, muse, and eventually wife of French novelist Honoré de Balzac.
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B.
Marie Krackowizer
Marie Krackowizer was the wife of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas and a supportive partner in his academic and intellectual life.
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C.
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
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D.
Irena Komorowska
Irena Komorowska was the wife of Polish resistance leader and Home Army commander Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.
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E.
Johanna Osthoff
Johanna Osthoff was the first wife of the renowned German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, with whom he had several children before her early death.
- 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: Catherine Opalinska Target entity description: Catherine Opalinska was a Polish noblewoman known primarily as the wife of French-Polish statesman and diplomat Alexandre Colonna-Walewski.
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A.
Ewelina Hańska
Ewelina Hańska was a Polish noblewoman best known as the longtime correspondent, muse, and eventually wife of French novelist Honoré de Balzac.
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B.
Marie Krackowizer
Marie Krackowizer was the wife of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas and a supportive partner in his academic and intellectual life.
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C.
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
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D.
Irena Komorowska
Irena Komorowska was the wife of Polish resistance leader and Home Army commander Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.
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E.
Johanna Osthoff
Johanna Osthoff was the first wife of the renowned German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, with whom he had several children before her early death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish noblewoman
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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Poland ⓘ Poland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Poles ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | nobility ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Alexandre Colonna-Walewski ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
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Catherine Opalinska self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Catherine Opalinska Description of subject: Catherine Opalinska was a Polish noblewoman known primarily as the wife of French-Polish statesman and diplomat Alexandre Colonna-Walewski.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski