Marie Witschi-Courant
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Marie Witschi-Courant was the wife of Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate Emil Theodor Kocher.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marie Witschi-Courant canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T767491 — 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: Marie Witschi-Courant Context triple: [Emil Theodor Kocher, marriedTo, Marie Witschi-Courant]
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A.
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Marie-Thérèse Walter was a French woman best known as Pablo Picasso’s muse and lover, who inspired many of his most celebrated portraits and sculptures in the 1930s.
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B.
Anne-Elisabeth Honorine Aubert
Anne-Elisabeth Honorine Aubert was the mother of the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne.
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C.
Karla von Mohl
Karla von Mohl was the wife of renowned German physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and a member of the distinguished von Mohl family.
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D.
Marie-Pierre Kœnig
Marie-Pierre Kœnig was a prominent French general and Resistance leader during World War II, renowned for his role in the Free French Forces and the Battle of Bir Hakeim.
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E.
Frieda Knecht
Frieda Knecht was the wife of Hans Albert Einstein, the second son of physicist Albert Einstein.
- 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: Marie Witschi-Courant Target entity description: Marie Witschi-Courant was the wife of Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate Emil Theodor Kocher.
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A.
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Marie-Thérèse Walter was a French woman best known as Pablo Picasso’s muse and lover, who inspired many of his most celebrated portraits and sculptures in the 1930s.
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B.
Anne-Elisabeth Honorine Aubert
Anne-Elisabeth Honorine Aubert was the mother of the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne.
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C.
Karla von Mohl
Karla von Mohl was the wife of renowned German physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and a member of the distinguished von Mohl family.
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D.
Marie-Pierre Kœnig
Marie-Pierre Kœnig was a prominent French general and Resistance leader during World War II, renowned for his role in the Free French Forces and the Battle of Bir Hakeim.
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E.
Frieda Knecht
Frieda Knecht was the wife of Hans Albert Einstein, the second son of physicist Albert Einstein.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Switzerland
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| name | Marie Witschi-Courant ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Emil Theodor Kocher ⓘ |
| occupation | surgeon ⓘ |
| spouse |
Emil Theodor Kocher
ⓘ
Marie Witschi-Courant ⓘ |
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: Marie Witschi-Courant Description of subject: Marie Witschi-Courant was the wife of Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate Emil Theodor Kocher.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.