Sophia Johnson
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Sophia Johnson was the wife of American industrialist and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, with whom she had a large family during the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sophia Johnson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1090070 — 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: Sophia Johnson Context triple: [Cornelius Vanderbilt, spouse, Sophia Johnson]
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A.
Sophia Petrillo
Sophia Petrillo is the sharp-tongued, witty Sicilian matriarch from the sitcom "The Golden Girls," known for her blunt humor and memorable one-liners.
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B.
Sophia Strahan
Sophia Strahan is one of former NFL star and television host Michael Strahan’s twin daughters, known publicly through her appearances with her father in media and on social platforms.
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C.
Anna Beth Sully
Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
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D.
Jocelyn Howard
Jocelyn Howard is an American television and film actress best known as the daughter of filmmaker and former child star Ron Howard.
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E.
Emma Thomas
Emma Thomas is a British film producer best known for her long-running collaboration with director Christopher Nolan on major films such as Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Oppenheimer.
- 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: Sophia Johnson Target entity description: Sophia Johnson was the wife of American industrialist and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, with whom she had a large family during the early 19th century.
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A.
Sophia Petrillo
Sophia Petrillo is the sharp-tongued, witty Sicilian matriarch from the sitcom "The Golden Girls," known for her blunt humor and memorable one-liners.
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B.
Sophia Strahan
Sophia Strahan is one of former NFL star and television host Michael Strahan’s twin daughters, known publicly through her appearances with her father in media and on social platforms.
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C.
Anna Beth Sully
Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
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D.
Jocelyn Howard
Jocelyn Howard is an American television and film actress best known as the daughter of filmmaker and former child star Ron Howard.
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E.
Emma Thomas
Emma Thomas is a British film producer best known for her long-running collaboration with director Christopher Nolan on major films such as Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Oppenheimer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| marriedToOccupation |
industrialist
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railroad magnate ⓘ |
| name | Sophia Johnson ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | large family ⓘ |
| occupation |
industrialist
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railroad magnate ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Sophia Johnson self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| spouseName | Cornelius Vanderbilt ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Sophia Johnson Description of subject: Sophia Johnson was the wife of American industrialist and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, with whom she had a large family during the early 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cornelius Vanderbilt