Otelia Augspurger Compton
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Otelia Augspurger Compton was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Arthur H. Compton and a member of a prominent Midwestern academic and religious family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Otelia Augspurger Compton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T850974 — 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: Otelia Augspurger Compton Context triple: [Arthur H. Compton, mother, Otelia Augspurger Compton]
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A.
Henrietta Hill Swope
Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
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B.
Lucile Salter Packard
Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
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C.
Lillie Hitchcock Coit
Lillie Hitchcock Coit was a wealthy San Francisco socialite and eccentric philanthropist best known for her passionate support of the city’s firefighters and for funding the construction of Coit Tower.
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D.
Lillian C. McDermott
Lillian C. McDermott was a pioneering physics education researcher and professor known for transforming the teaching and learning of physics through research-based instructional methods.
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E.
Florence Crauford Grove
Florence Crauford Grove was a 19th-century British mountaineer and author, noted as a pioneering figure in the early history of Alpine and Caucasus climbing.
- 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: Otelia Augspurger Compton Target entity description: Otelia Augspurger Compton was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Arthur H. Compton and a member of a prominent Midwestern academic and religious family.
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A.
Henrietta Hill Swope
Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
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B.
Lucile Salter Packard
Lucile Salter Packard was an American philanthropist and children’s health advocate whose legacy includes the founding of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
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C.
Lillie Hitchcock Coit
Lillie Hitchcock Coit was a wealthy San Francisco socialite and eccentric philanthropist best known for her passionate support of the city’s firefighters and for funding the construction of Coit Tower.
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D.
Lillian C. McDermott
Lillian C. McDermott was a pioneering physics education researcher and professor known for transforming the teaching and learning of physics through research-based instructional methods.
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E.
Florence Crauford Grove
Florence Crauford Grove was a 19th-century British mountaineer and author, noted as a pioneering figure in the early history of Alpine and Caucasus climbing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
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: Otelia Augspurger Compton Description of subject: Otelia Augspurger Compton was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Arthur H. Compton and a member of a prominent Midwestern academic and religious family.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arthur Holly Compton
subject surface form:
Karl Taylor Compton
subject surface form:
Wilson Martindale Compton