Jane van Middlesworth Bellis
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Jane van Middlesworth Bellis was the wife of famed American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane van Middlesworth Bellis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13009722 — 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: Jane van Middlesworth Bellis Context triple: [John Philip Sousa, spouse, Jane van Middlesworth Bellis]
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A.
Mary Frances Belli
Mary Frances Belli was the wife of William Howley, the 19th-century Archbishop of Canterbury.
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B.
Virginia Leftwich Bell
Virginia Leftwich Bell was the mother of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, and a member of the prominent Bell family with deep ties to Christian ministry and missionary work.
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C.
Mary Louise Bell
Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
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D.
Jane Bolling
Jane Bolling was a colonial Virginian woman of the prominent Bolling family, noted as an ancestor of several influential figures in early American history.
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E.
Jane Denny McDowell
Jane Denny McDowell was the wife and muse of American songwriter Stephen Foster, traditionally associated with inspiring his famous song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair."
- 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: Jane van Middlesworth Bellis Target entity description: Jane van Middlesworth Bellis was the wife of famed American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa.
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A.
Mary Frances Belli
Mary Frances Belli was the wife of William Howley, the 19th-century Archbishop of Canterbury.
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B.
Virginia Leftwich Bell
Virginia Leftwich Bell was the mother of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, and a member of the prominent Bell family with deep ties to Christian ministry and missionary work.
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C.
Mary Louise Bell
Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
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D.
Jane Bolling
Jane Bolling was a colonial Virginian woman of the prominent Bolling family, noted as an ancestor of several influential figures in early American history.
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E.
Jane Denny McDowell
Jane Denny McDowell was the wife and muse of American songwriter Stephen Foster, traditionally associated with inspiring his famous song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Jane van Middlesworth Bellis ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jane van Middlesworth Bellis
ⓘ
John Philip Sousa ⓘ |
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: Jane van Middlesworth Bellis Description of subject: Jane van Middlesworth Bellis was the wife of famed American composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.