Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus
E1020166
Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus was the mother of American composer and "March King" John Philip Sousa, playing a formative role in the early life of the famed bandleader.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13009721 — 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: Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus Context triple: [John Philip Sousa, mother, Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus]
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A.
Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt
Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt was a German woman of the 17th century best known as the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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B.
Elisabeth Schultze
Elisabeth Schultze was the daughter of Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, who is primarily known as the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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C.
Luise Wiethaus-Fischer
Luise Wiethaus-Fischer was the wife of German poet and translator Friedrich Rückert.
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D.
Friederike Fliedner
Friederike Fliedner was a 19th-century German Protestant reformer and educator who co-founded the pioneering deaconess institute at Kaiserswerth, helping to shape modern nursing and women’s religious service.
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E.
Elisabeth Eberl
Elisabeth Eberl is an Austrian javelin thrower who has competed internationally, including at major European and world athletics events.
- 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: Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus Target entity description: Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus was the mother of American composer and "March King" John Philip Sousa, playing a formative role in the early life of the famed bandleader.
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A.
Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt
Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt was a German woman of the 17th century best known as the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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B.
Elisabeth Schultze
Elisabeth Schultze was the daughter of Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, who is primarily known as the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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C.
Luise Wiethaus-Fischer
Luise Wiethaus-Fischer was the wife of German poet and translator Friedrich Rückert.
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D.
Friederike Fliedner
Friederike Fliedner was a 19th-century German Protestant reformer and educator who co-founded the pioneering deaconess institute at Kaiserswerth, helping to shape modern nursing and women’s religious service.
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E.
Elisabeth Eberl
Elisabeth Eberl is an Austrian javelin thrower who has competed internationally, including at major European and world athletics events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother of a notable person ⓘ |
| child | John Philip Sousa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German American ⓘ |
| familyName | Trinkhaus ⓘ |
| givenName |
Elisabeth
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Maria ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| hasRelative | John Philip Sousa ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| mother | Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of American composer John Philip Sousa
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influencing the early life of bandleader John Philip Sousa ⓘ |
| notableWork | formative role in the upbringing of John Philip Sousa ⓘ |
| partOf | Sousa family ⓘ |
| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus Description of subject: Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus was the mother of American composer and "March King" John Philip Sousa, playing a formative role in the early life of the famed bandleader.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus