Edith Wilson
E158945
Edith Wilson was the influential First Lady of the United States and wife of President Woodrow Wilson, noted for her significant role in managing White House affairs after her husband's stroke.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edith Wilson canonical | 4 |
| Edith Bolling Galt Wilson | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1043132 — 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: Edith Wilson Context triple: [China Room, namedBy, Edith Wilson]
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A.
Helen Herron Taft
Helen Herron Taft was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913, known for her influential role in Washington society and for initiating the planting of Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Marion Cleveland
Marion Cleveland was the daughter of U.S. President Grover Cleveland and First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland, known as one of the first children born to a sitting American president in the White House.
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C.
Grace Coolidge
Grace Coolidge was the First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929, known for her charm, social grace, and advocacy for the deaf community.
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D.
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucy Webb Hayes was the First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881, known for her advocacy of temperance and her active role in social and political life during her husband Rutherford B. Hayes’s presidency.
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E.
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Frances Folsom Cleveland was the youngest First Lady of the United States, known for her marriage to President Grover Cleveland while he was in office and for her popularity in late 19th-century American society.
- 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: Edith Wilson Target entity description: Edith Wilson was the influential First Lady of the United States and wife of President Woodrow Wilson, noted for her significant role in managing White House affairs after her husband's stroke.
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A.
Helen Herron Taft
Helen Herron Taft was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913, known for her influential role in Washington society and for initiating the planting of Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Marion Cleveland
Marion Cleveland was the daughter of U.S. President Grover Cleveland and First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland, known as one of the first children born to a sitting American president in the White House.
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C.
Grace Coolidge
Grace Coolidge was the First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929, known for her charm, social grace, and advocacy for the deaf community.
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D.
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucy Webb Hayes was the First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881, known for her advocacy of temperance and her active role in social and political life during her husband Rutherford B. Hayes’s presidency.
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E.
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Frances Folsom Cleveland was the youngest First Lady of the United States, known for her marriage to President Grover Cleveland while he was in office and for her popularity in late 19th-century American society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Lady of the United States
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Woodrow Wilson’s stroke in October 1919 ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
Wytheville, Virginia ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1872-10-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Wytheville, Virginia
ⓘ
surface form:
Wytheville, Virginia, United States
|
| burialPlace |
National Cathedral
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington National Cathedral
|
| causeOfDeath | congestive heart failure ⓘ |
| controlled | access to President Woodrow Wilson after his stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1961-12-28 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
|
| describedAs | “the first woman to run the government” ⓘ |
| endTime | 1921-03-04 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Bolling
ⓘ
Galt ⓘ Wilson ⓘ |
| father | William Holcombe Bolling ⓘ |
| fullName |
Edith Wilson
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
|
| givenName | Edith ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| managed | President Woodrow Wilson’s schedule after his stroke ⓘ |
| marriageDate |
1896-04-30
ⓘ
1915-12-18 ⓘ |
| marriageTo |
Norman Galt
ⓘ
Woodrow Wilson ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| mother | Sallie White Bolling ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential role in White House affairs during Wilson’s incapacity
ⓘ
managing access to President Woodrow Wilson after his 1919 stroke ⓘ |
| occupation |
First Lady
ⓘ
political hostess ⓘ |
| playedRoleIn |
Paris Peace Conference aftermath via influence on Woodrow Wilson
ⓘ
handling of presidential paperwork after 1919 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
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surface form:
Ellen Axson Wilson
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| publicationDateOfWork | 1939 ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
White House ⓘ |
| spouse |
Norman Galt
ⓘ
Woodrow Wilson ⓘ |
| startTime | 1915-12-18 ⓘ |
| successor | Florence Harding ⓘ |
| wrote | My Memoir ⓘ |
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: Edith Wilson Description of subject: Edith Wilson was the influential First Lady of the United States and wife of President Woodrow Wilson, noted for her significant role in managing White House affairs after her husband's stroke.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
this entity surface form:
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson