Phyllis Livingston Potter
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Phyllis Livingston Potter was the first wife of legendary dancer and actor Fred Astaire, with whom she was married from 1933 until her death in 1954.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phyllis Livingston Potter canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341836 — 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: Phyllis Livingston Potter Context triple: [Fred Astaire, spouse, Phyllis Livingston Potter]
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A.
Ethel Wayman
Ethel Wayman was the wife of British humorist and novelist P. G. Wodehouse.
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B.
Edith Emerson
Edith Emerson was a daughter of the American transcendentalist essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, known primarily through her connection to his family and correspondence.
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C.
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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E.
Maud Ray Kent
Maud Ray Kent was a notable figure significant enough in her field or community to have the MAUD Committee named in her honor.
- 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: Phyllis Livingston Potter Target entity description: Phyllis Livingston Potter was the first wife of legendary dancer and actor Fred Astaire, with whom she was married from 1933 until her death in 1954.
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A.
Ethel Wayman
Ethel Wayman was the wife of British humorist and novelist P. G. Wodehouse.
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B.
Edith Emerson
Edith Emerson was a daughter of the American transcendentalist essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, known primarily through her connection to his family and correspondence.
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C.
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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E.
Maud Ray Kent
Maud Ray Kent was a notable figure significant enough in her field or community to have the MAUD Committee named in her honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
socialite ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Ava Astaire
ⓘ
Fred Astaire ⓘ
surface form:
Fred Astaire Jr.
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1954 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York City, New York, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| hadChildWith | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| hadPreviousMarriage | yes ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1954 ⓘ |
| marriageEndCause | death of Phyllis Livingston Potter ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1933 ⓘ |
| name | Phyllis Livingston Potter self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
died during Fred Astaire’s peak Hollywood career
ⓘ
married Fred Astaire in 1933 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
actor
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| stepfatherOfHerChildrenBeforeMarriage | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
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: Phyllis Livingston Potter Description of subject: Phyllis Livingston Potter was the first wife of legendary dancer and actor Fred Astaire, with whom she was married from 1933 until her death in 1954.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.